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: Ernest Loomis & Company
City: New YorkYear: 1897 Binding Style: Hardcover
Pagination: 277, with "The Magic Mirror" (by direction of The Brotherhood of Magic), and several pages of Loomis advertisements at endIllustrated: 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. Scarce edition from 1897. Shelf wear to boards: bumped corners, slight lean to book, and (old) clear tape to binding of first blank pages. Last blank page and endpaper are glued together. Please see pictures. School of Practical Psychology stamp on first blank page. Pages are clean and free of interior writing, otherwise. 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.
