The Philosophy of Natural Magic: Table of Contents

The Philosophy of Natural Magic, by Henry Cornelius Agrippa, L. W. de Laurence ed. [1913], at sacred-texts.com

INTRODUCTORY.
Editor's Preface	15
Early Life of Agrippa	17
Cornelius Agrippa to the Reader	27
Agrippa to Trithemius	30
Trithemius to Agrippa	33

THE PHILOSOPHY OF NATURAL MAGIC
Chapter I. How Magicians Collect Virtues from the Three-fold World, is Declared in these Three Books	37
Chapter II. What Magic Is, What are the Parts thereof, and How the Professors thereof must be Qualified	38
Chapter III. Of the Four Elements, their Qualities, and Mutual Mixtions	42
Chapter IV. Of a Three-fold Consideration of the Elements	44
Chapter V. Of the Wonderful Natures of Fire and Earth	45
Chapter VI. Of the Wonderful Natures of Water, Air and Winds	48
Chapter 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	56
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Chapter VIII. How the Elements are in the Heavens, in Stars, in Devils, in Angels, and, lastly, in God himself	58
Chapter IX. Of the Virtues of things Natural, depending immediately upon Elements	61
Chapter X. Of the Occult Virtues of Things	62
Chapter XI. How Occult Virtues are Infused into the several kinds of Things by Ideas, through the Help of the Soul of the World, and Rays of the Stars; and what Things abound most with this Virtue	65
Chapter XII. How it is that Particular Virtues are Infused into Particular Individuals, even of the same Species	67
Chapter XIII. Whence the Occult Virtues of Things Proceed	68
Chapter XIV. Of the Spirit of the World, What It Is and how by way of medium It Unites occult Virtues to their Subjects	72
Chapter XV. How we must Find Out and Examine the Virtues of Things by way of Similitude	74
Chapter XVI. How the Operations of several Virtues Pass from one thing into another, and are Communicated one to the other	77
Chapter XVII. How by Enmity and Friendship the Virtues of things are to be Tried and Found Out	78
Chapter XVIII. Of the Inclinations of Enmities	81
Chapter XIX. How the Virtues of Things are to be Tried and Found Out, which are in them Specifically, or in any one Individual by way of Special Gift	85
Chapter XX. The Natural Virtues are in borne Things throughout their Whole Substance, and in other Things in Certain Parts and Members	86
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Chapter XXI. Of the Virtues of Things which are in them only in their Life Time, and Such as Remain in them even After their Death	88
Chapter XXII. How Inferior Things are Subjected to Superior Bodies, and how the Bodies, Actions, and Dispositions of Men are Ascribed to Stars and Signs	91
Chapter XXIII. How we shall Know what Stars Natural Things are Under, and what Things are Under the Sun, which are called Solary	95
Chapter XXIV. What Things are Lunary, or Under the Power of the Moon	99
Chapter XXV. What Things are Saturnine, or Under the Power of Saturn	101
Chapter XXVI. What Things are Under the Power of Jupiter, and are called Jovial	104
Chapter XXVII. What Things are Under the Power of Mars, and are called Martial	105
Chapter XXVIII. What Things are Under the Power of Venus, and are called Venereal	106
Chapter XXIX. What Things are Under the Power of Mercury, and are called Mercurial	107
Chapter XXX. That the Whole Sublunary World, and those Things which are in It, are Distributed to Planets	108
Chapter XXXI. How Provinces and Kingdoms are Distributed to Planets	109
Chapter XXXII. What Things are Under the Signs, the Fixed Stars, and their Images	111
Chapter XXXIII. The Seals and Characters of Natural Things	114
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Chapter XXXIV. How, by Natural Things and their Virtues, we may Draw Forth and Attract the Influences and Virtues of Celestial Bodies	118
Chapter XXXV. Of the Mixtions of Natural Things, one with another, and their Benefit	119
Chapter XXXVI. Of the Union of Mixed Things, and the Introduction of a More Noble Form, and the Senses of Life	121
Chapter XXXVII. How, by some certain Natural and Artificial Preparations, We May Attract certain Celestial and Vital Gifts	123
Chapter XXXVIII. How We May Draw not only Celestial and Vital but also certain Intellectual and Divine Gifts from Above	125
Chapter XXXIX. That We May, by some certain Matters of the World, Stir Up the Gods of the World and their Ministering Spirits	127
Chapter XL. Of Bindings; what Sort they are of, and in what Ways they are wont to be Done	128
Chapter XLI. Of Sorceries, and their Power	129
Chapter XLII. Of the Wonderful Virtues of some Kinds of Sorceries	131
Chapter XLIII. Of Perfumes or Suffumigations; their Manner and Power	136
Chapter XLIV. The Composition of some Fumes appropriated to the Planets	139
Chapter XLV. Of Collyries, Unctions, Love-Medicines, and their Virtues	141
Chapter XLVI. Of Natural Alligations and Suspensions	144
Chapter XLVII. Of Magical Rings and their Compositions	146
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Chapter XLVIII. Of the Virtue of Places, and what Places are Suitable to every Star	148
Chapter XLIX. Of Light, Colors, Candles and Lamps, and to what Stars, Houses and Elements several Colors are Ascribed	151
Chapter L. Of Fascination, and the Art thereof	154
Chapter LI. Of certain Observations, Producing wonderful Virtues	156
Chapter 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	159
Chapter LIII. Of Divination, and the Kinds thereof	162
Chapter LIV. Of divers certain Animals, and other things, which have a Signification in Auguries	165
Chapter LV. How Auspicias are Verified by the Light of Natural Instinct, and of some Rules of Finding of It Out	173
Chapter LVI. Of the Soothsayings of Flashes and Lightnings, and how Monstrous and Prodigious Things are to be Interpreted	178
Chapter LVII. Of Geomancy, Hydromancy, Aeromancy, and Pyromancy, Four Divinations of Elements	181
Chapter LVIII. Of the Reviving of the Dead, and of Sleeping or Hibernating (wanting victuals) Many Years together	183
Chapter LIX. Of Divination by Dreams	188
Chapter LX. Of Madness, and Divinations which are made when men are awake, and of the Power of a Melancholy Humor, by which Spirits are sometimes induced into Men's Bodies	189
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Chapter LXI. Of the Forming of Men, of the External Senses, also those Inward, and the Mind; and of the Three-fold Appetite of the Soul, and Passions of the Will	193
Chapter LXII. Of the Passions of the Mind, their Original Source, Differences, and Kinds	197
Chapter LXIII. How the Passions of the Mind change the proper Body by changing its Accidents and moving the Spirit	199
Chapter LXIV. How the Passions of the Mind change the Body by way of Imitation from some Resemblance; of the Transforming and Translating of Men, and what Force the Imaginative Power hath, not only over the Body but the Soul	201
Chapter LXV. How the Passions of the Mind can Work of themselves upon Another's Body	204
Chapter LXVI. That the Passions of the Mind are Helped by a Celestial Season, and how Necessary the Constancy of the Mind is in every Work	206
Chapter LXVII. How the Mind of Man may be Joined with the Mind of the Stars, and Intelligences of the Celestials, and, together with them, Impress certain wonderful Virtues upon inferior Things	208
Chapter LXVIII. How our Mind can Change and Bind inferior Things to the Ends which we Desire	209
Chapter LXIX. Of Speech, and the Occult Virtue of Words	210
Chapter LXX. Of the Virtue of Proper Names	212
Chapter LXXI. Of many Words joined together, as in Sentences and Verses; and of the Virtues and Astrictions of Charms	214
Chapter LXXII. Of the wonderful Power of Enchantments	216
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Chapter LXXIII. Of the Virtue of Writing, and of Making Imprecations, and Inscriptions	218
Chapter LXXIV. Of the Proportion, Correspondency, and Reduction of Letters to the Celestial Signs and Planets, According to various Tongues, and a Table thereof	219

BY HENRY MORLEY.
Criticism on Agrippa's Natural Magic	224
Agrippa and the Rosicrucians	226
Exposition of the Cabala	234
The Mirific Word	245
New Table of the Cabala and Tarot (specially compiled)	246
Reuchlin the Mystic	250
Agrippa Expounds Reuchlin	258
The Nobility of Woman	261
Order of the Empyrean Heaven	275
Symbols of the Alchemists	282

BY DR. L. W. DE LAURENCE.
The Eternal Principle	286
A Message To Mystics, The Magic Mirror	288

Henry Cornelius Agrippa	Frontispiece
Title Page of 1651 Edition	36
Grand Solar Man	90
Calamus	98
Characters of Nature	116
Divine Letters	117
Cabalistical Table of Co-ordinate Characters	223
Tree of the Cabala (three full-page etchings)	239, 241, 243
The Empyrean Heaven	274
Rosicrucian Symbol of the Spirit of Nature	277
Symbols of the Alchemists	283

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