''^^mm:m;mfi§i0M CORNELL U.JNJIV.ER,SITY LIBRARY BOUGHT WITH THE INCOME OF THE SAGE ENDOWMENT FUND GIVEN IN ., 1891 BY HENRY WILLIAMS SAGE Cornell University Library BF1598.A27 02 1898 Three books of occult phijpsophv or magi 3 1924 028 928 236 olin PRINTED IN U.S A. Cornell University Library The original of tiiis book is in tine Cornell University Library. There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924028928236 HENRY CORNELIUS AGRIPPA. THREE BOOKS OP OCCUIT PHILOSOPHY OE MAGIC BY THE FAMOUS MYSTIC HENRY CORNELIUS AGRIPPA VON NETTESHEIM COUNSELOR TO CHARLES THE FIFTH, EMPEROR OF GERMANY, AND JUDGE OF THE PREROGATIVE COURT. T 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. EDITED BY WILLIS F. WHITEHEAD By Direction op the Bbotherhood op Magic: THE MAGIC MIRROR A MESSAGE TO MYSTICS OONTAHJIKG FULL INSTRUCTIONS ON ITS MAKE AND USE. " A Quamt ana curious volume of forgotten lore."—PoE. CHICAGO HAHN & WHITEHEAD 1898 r'kTVT Copyrighted, November 17, 1897, by Hahn & Whitehead, Chicago. % /'/' • <?•*•*• * THIS -d WORK & ir OF -k OCCULT * <r PHILOSOPHY, iz •k OE {3 NATURAL • •ft MAGIC, • BY -ft * t::? • -ft • tS • THAT a PURE • -ft • « • lS • ft MYSTIC, * THINKER -ft AND -ft TEACHER, -k SCHOLAR, -ft * STATESMAN, * PHILOSOPHER -ft AND -ft AUTHOR, * * HENRY * CORNELIUS * AGRIPPA * * WAS a BROUGHT -ft FORTH -ft BY ft HIM * THOUGH * ft SLANDER, ft EDICT, *• AND & ENEMIES ft OPPOSED. H * ft^-ft-^ft'^ftHE-ft LIVED, • -ft • ft • -ft • ft TOILED -k AND -ft * TRIUMPHED IN * •Cs THIS -ft CAUSE, -ft * -ft TO ft THOSE -k is WHO • HAVE -ft * A-ftLOVEftFOR ie ft TRUTH * AND ft * MYSTIC ft ART * ft THIS -k NEW ft * EDITION * IS * ft DEDICATED. *• H * -ft * ft * ft • mi Agrippa. Mr. Henry Morley, an eminent Englisli scholar, in his Life of Cornelius Agrippa, makes these tributary statements; He secured the best honors attainable in art and arms ; was acquainted with eight languages, being the master of six. His natural bent had been from early youth to a consideration of Divine Mysteries. To learn these and teach them to others had been at all times his chief ambition. He is distinguished among the learned for his cultivation of Occult Philosophy, upon which he has written a complete work. CONTENTS. Introductory. Editor's Preface 13 Early Life of Agrippa 15 Cornelius Agrippa to the Reader 25 Agripi^a to Trithemius 28 Trithemius to Agrippa 31 Natural Ma^ic. ^I. Eoiu Magicians Collect Virtues from the Three- fold World, is Declared in these Three Books. 83 t^II. What Magic Is, What are the Parts thereof, and Hoiu the Professors thereof must he Qualified. 34 III. Of the Four Elements, their Qualities, and Mut- ual Mixtions 38 IV. Of a Three-fold Consideration of the Elements. 40 v. Of the Wonderful Natures of Fire and Earth. 42 VI. Of the Wonderful Natures of Water, Air and Winds 44 VII. Of the Kinds of Compounds, what Relation they stand in to the Elements, and what Relation there is betwixt the Elements themselves and the Soul, Senses and Dispositions of Men 53 VIII. How the Elements are in the Heavens, in Stars, in Devils, in Angels, and, lastly, in God him- self 55 5 » 6 LIST OP CONTENTS. IX. Of the Virtues of things Natural, depending immediately upon Elements 58 X. Of the Occult Virtues of Tilings 59 XI. Hoiv Occult Virtues are Infused into the several kinds of Things by Ideas, through the Help of the Soul of the World, and Bays of the Stars; and what Things abound most luith this Virtue 62 XII. How it is that Particular Virtues are Infused into Particular Individuals, even of the same Species 64 XIII. Whence the Occult Virtues of Things Proceed . 65 XIV. Of the Spirit of the World, What It Is, and how by loay of medium It Unites occult Virtues to their Subjects 69 XV. How we must Find Out and Examine the Vir- tues of Tilings by way of Similitude 71 XVI. Hoio the Operations of several Virtues Pass from one thing into another, and are Com- municated one to the other 74 XVII. How by Enmity and Friendship the Virtues of things are to be Tried and Found Out 75 XVIII. Of the Inclinations of Enmities 78 XIX. How the Virtues of Tilings are to be Tried and Found Out, which are in them Specifically, or one Individual in any by ivay of Special Gift . 82 XX. The Natural Virtues are in some Things throughout their Whole Substance, and in other Things in Certain Parts and Members . 83 XXI. Of the Virtues of Things luhich are in them only in their Life Time, and Such as Remain in them even After their Death 85 LIST OF CONTENTS. 7 , XXII. Hmo Inferior Things are Subjected to Supe- rior Bodies, and hoiv the Bodies, Actions, and Dispositions of Men are Ascribed to Stars and Signs 87 XXIII. Haw we shall Know what Stars Natural Things are Under, and what Things are Under the Sun, which are called Solary ... 91 XXIV. What Things are Lunary, or Under the Power of the Moon 95 XXV. What Things are Saturnine, or Under the Poioer of Saturn 97 XXVI. What Things are Under the Power of Jupi- ter, and are called Jovial 100 XXVII. Wliat Things are Under the Power of Mars, and are called Martial 101 XXVlil. What Things are Under the Power of Venus, and are called Venereal 102 XXIX. What Things are Under the Power of Mer- cury, and are called Mercurial 103 XXX. That the Whole Sublunary World, and those Things which are in It, are Distributed to Planets 104 I XXXI. How Provinces and Kingdoms are Distributed to Planets 105 XXXII. What Things are Under the Signs, the Fixed Stars, and their Images 107 XXXIII. TJie Seals and Characters of Natural Things. 110 XXXIV. Hoiu, by Natural Things and their Virtues, we may Draw Forth and Attract the Influ- ences and Virtues of Celestial Bodies 114 XXXV. Of the Mixtions of Natural Things, one with another, and their Benefit 115 8 LIST OF CONTENTS. XXXVI. Of the Union of Mixed Things, and the Introduction of a More Noble Form, and the Senses of Life 117 XXXVII. How, by some certain Natural and Artificial Preparations, We May Attract certain Celestial and Vital Gifts 118 XXXVIII. Eoio We May Draw not only Celestial and Vital but also certain Intellectual and Divine Gifts from Above 121 XXXIX. That We May, by some certain Matters of the World, Stir Up the Gods of the World and their Ministering Spirits 123 XL. Of Bindings; ivhat Sort tJiey are of, and in what Ways they are wont to be Done .... 124 XLI. Of Sorceries, and their Power 125 XLII. Of the Wonderful Virtues of some Kinds of Sorceries 127 XLIII. Of Perfumes or Suffumigations; their Man- ner and Poioer 132 XLIV. The Composition of some Fumes appropri- ated to the Planets 135 XLV. Of Gollyries, Unctions, Love-Medicines, and their Virtues 137 XLVI. Of Natural Alligations and Suspensions. 139 XLVII. Of Magical Rings and their Compositions. 141 XLVIII. Of the Virtue of Places, and what Places . are Suitable to every Star 143 XLIX. Of Light, Colors, Candles and Lamps, and to lohat Stars, Houses and Elements sev- eral Colors are Ascribed 146 L. Of Fascination, and the Art thereof 150 LIST OF CONTENTS. 9 LI. Of certain Observations, Producing wonderful Virtues 152 >^ LII. Of the Countenance and Gesture, the Habit and the Figure of the Body, and to what Stars any of these do Answer; whence Physiognomy, and Metoposcopy, and Chiromancy, Arts of Divination, have their Grounds 155 ^ LIII. Of Divination, and the Kinds thereof 158 LIV. Of divers certain Animals, and other things, which have a Signification in Auguries 161 LV. How Auspicias are Verified by the Light of Nat- ural Instinct, and of some Bules of Finding of It Out 169 LVI. Of the Soothsayings of Flashes and Light- nings, and how Monstrous and Prodigious Tilings are to be Interpreted 175 ^ LVII. Of Geomancy, Hydromancy, Aeromancy, and Pyromancy, Four Divinations of Elements . 177 ''LVIII. Of the Reviving of the Dead, and of Sleeping or Hibernating (wanting victuals) Many Years together 180 ^ LIX. Of Divination by Dreams 184 ^ LX. Of Madness, and Divinations ivhich are made when men are awake, and of the Power of a Melancholy Humor, by which Spirits are sometimes induced into Men's Bodies 186 LXI. Of the Forming of Man, of the External Senses, also those Inward, and the Mind; and of the Threefold Appetite of the Soul, and Passions of the Will 190 LXII. Of the Passions of the Mind, their Original Source, Differences, and Kinds 194 10 LIST OF CONTENTS. LXIII. How the Passions of the Mind change the proper Body by changing its Accidents and moving the Spirit 195 LXIV. How the Passions of the Mind change the Body by toay of Imitation from some Resemblance; of the Transforming and Translating of Men, and lohat Force the Imaginative Power hath, not only over the Body but the Soul 197 LXV. Eoiv the Passions of the Mind can Work of themselves upon Another's Body 200 LXVI. That the Passions of the Mind are Helped by a Celestial Season, and hoiu Necessary the Constancy of the Mind is in every Work. 203 LXVII. How the Mind of Man may be Joined with the Mind of the Stars, and Intelligences of the Celestials, and, together with them.