Book Details + Condition: Scarce 1913 edition of THE PHILOSOPHY OF NATURAL MAGIC, published by The de Laurence Company. 284 pages. First Edition by the publisher. Condensed version of the English translation of Henry Cornelius Agrippa's "Fourth Book of Occult Philosophy", originally published 1655. Agrippa was known in his time as a magician — and he gathered together all the mystic and magick lore he had obtained, compiling it into the elaborate system of Magic, in three books, known as "Occult Philosophy". The first book — Natural Magic — constitutes the present volume. Illustrated with original woodcuts. "Natural Magic, White Magic, Black Magic, Divination, Occult Binding, Sorceries, And Their Power. Unctions, Love Medicines And Their Virtues. The Occult Virtue of Things Which Are In Them Only In Their Lifetime, And Such As Remain In Them Even After Their Death, The Occult Or Magical Virtue of All Things, etc." A clean and solid copy of an increasingly scarce work, with light wear to covers; rubbing to extremities; interior is clean and unmarked save name to front free endpaper. Partial List of Contents includes:
- White Magic
- Black Magic
- Three-fold Consideration of Elements
- The Four Elements, their Qualities
- Occult Virtues of Things
- The Spirit of the World
- How Inferior Things are Subjected to Superior Bodies
- What Things are Lunary
- What Things are under the power of: Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Venus, Mercury
- What Things are Under the Signs
- The Union of Mixed Things
- Bindings
- Sorceries
- Perfumes or Suffumigations
- Magical Rings
- Light Colors
- Divination
- Divers certain Animals
- Geomancy
- Reviving of the Dead
- Divination by Dreams
- Madness
- Passions of the Mind
- Speech
- Virtue of Writing
- AND MUCH MORE.
