Title: THREE BOOKS OF OCCULT PHILOSOPHY OR MAGIC: BOOK ONE — NATURAL MAGIC, Which Includes the Early Life of Agrippa, His Seventy-four Chapters on Natural Magic, New Notes, Illustrations, Index, and Other Original and Selected Matter
Author: Henry Cornelius Agrippa; Edited by Willis F. Whitehead
Publisher: Hahn & Whitehead
City: ChicagoYear: 1898 Binding Style: Hardcover
Pagination: 288Illustrated: Yes
Book Details + Condition: THREE BOOKS OF OCCULT PHILOSOPHY OR MAGIC: BOOK ONE — NATURAL MAGIC, Which Includes the Early Life of Agrippa, His Seventy-four Chapters on Natural Magic, New Notes, Illustrations, Index, and Other Original and Selected Matter. Very scarce edition from 1898. Top edge gilt. Shelf wear to boards; former owner's name on inside front and rear boards in small ink script. Old repair work to rear hinge; binding remains tight and solid. Pages are clean and free of interior writing. Please see pictures. Book measures 10" x 7". In
1509-1510, Cornelius Agrippa, known in his time as a magician, gathered together
all the mystic and magick lore he had obtained, and
compiled it into the elaborate system of Magic, in three books, known as Occult
Philosophy. The first book — Natural Magic — constitutes the present
volume. Partial List of Contents includes:
- Natural Magic
- What Magic Is
- Three-fold Consideration of Elements
- The Four Elements, their Qualities
- Kinds of Compounds
- 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.
