Title: THE PHILOSOPHY OF NATURAL MAGIC
Author: Henry Cornelius Agrippa
Publisher: The de Laurence Company
City: ChicagoYear: 1913 (First Edition of Publisher)Binding Style: Hardcover
Pagination: 284 Illustrated: Yes
Book Details + Condition: Scarce 1913 de Laurence edition of THE PHILOSOPHY OF NATURAL MAGIC. Condensed version of the English translation of 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." In very good condition: original cloth red boards show minor shelfwear; rubbing to gilt on front; spine slightly faded; bumped and rubbed corners; interior is clean and unmarked. Partial List of Contents includes:
- White Magic
- Black Magic
- What Magic Is
- 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.
