Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa

(deceased)

Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim (14 September 1486 – 18 February 1535) was a German Renaissance polymath, physician, legal scholar, soldier, knight, theologian, and occult writer. Agrippa's Three Books of Occult Philosophy published in 1533 drew heavily upon Kabbalah, Hermeticism, and neo-Platonism. His book was widely influential among esotericists of the early modern period, and was condemned as heretical by the inquisitor of Cologne.

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De Occulta Philosophia: Volume 4 - The Fourth Book
Black Letter Press, Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, Paul Summers Young, De Occulta Philosophia, Three Books of Occult Philosophy
De Occulta Philosophia: Volume 4 - The Fourth Book
Black Letter Press, Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, Paul Summers Young, De Occulta Philosophia, Three Books of Occult Philosophy

This final section of "The Three Books of Occult Philosophy" includes new translations of extracts from Agrippa's work "De Incertitudine et Vanitate Scientiarum" (1530) and the potentially apocryphal "Liber Quartus de Occulta Philosophia" (1559), which also contains the Heptameron, or Elementa Magica de Petri de Abano.

Black Letter Press, Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, Paul Summers Young, De Occulta Philosophia, Three Books of Occult Philosophy
De Occulta Philosophia: Volume 3 - Ceremonial Magic
Black Letter Press, De Occulta Philosophia, Three Books of Occult Philosophy, Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, Paul Summers Young
De Occulta Philosophia: Volume 3 - Ceremonial Magic
Black Letter Press, De Occulta Philosophia, Three Books of Occult Philosophy, Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, Paul Summers Young

Agrippa's unique aspects in this book include his fluid use of terminology, moving between 'God' and 'the gods,' and his emphasis on silent contemplation as the best form of prayer.

Black Letter Press, De Occulta Philosophia, Three Books of Occult Philosophy, Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, Paul Summers Young
De Occulta Philosophia: Volume 2 - Celestial Magic
Black Letter Press, Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, De Occulta Philosophia, Three Books of Occult Philosophy, Paul Summers Young
De Occulta Philosophia: Volume 2 - Celestial Magic
Black Letter Press, Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, De Occulta Philosophia, Three Books of Occult Philosophy, Paul Summers Young

Book Two of Agrippa's work, "Celestial Magic", explores the celestial realm and can be divided into two parts.

Black Letter Press, Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, De Occulta Philosophia, Three Books of Occult Philosophy, Paul Summers Young
De Occulta Philosophia: Volume 1 - Natural Magic
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, Black Letter Press, De Occulta Philosophia, Three Books of Occult Philosophy, Paul Summers Young
De Occulta Philosophia: Volume 1 - Natural Magic
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, Black Letter Press, De Occulta Philosophia, Three Books of Occult Philosophy, Paul Summers Young

In "Natural Magic," Agrippa discusses how virtue, or power and energy, is present in everything and flows down from the divine to the physical world. He believed that matter and mind are not separate but part of a single substance.

Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, Black Letter Press, De Occulta Philosophia, Three Books of Occult Philosophy, Paul Summers Young

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