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Cornelius Agrippa · Willis F. Whitehead (1898)
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim (1486–1535) — soldier, physician, and the most influential magus of the Renaissance — here gives the first of his three books of occult philosophy: Natural Magic. Across seventy-four chapters he expounds the threefold world (elementary, celestial, and intellectual), the powers of the four elements, the occult virtues of stones, plants, and animals, and the bonds of sympathy and antipathy by which the magician works. From the classic English translation, edited by Willis F. Whitehead (1898). Henry Cornelius Agrippa SEEING there is a Three-fold World—Elementary, Celestial and Intellectual—and every inferior is governed by its superior, and receiveth the influence of the virtues thereof, so that the very Original and Chief Worker of all doth by angels, the heavens, stars, elements, animals, plants, metals and stones convey from Himself the virtues …
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