Agrippa · The Occult Philosophy
Book II · Notebook 6 of 7
Images, Talismans and Characters
In 1510 a young scholar from Cologne sent the famous abbot Trithemius a manuscript on the hidden powers of nature. Printed in full in 1533, Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa's "Three Books of Occult Philosophy" became the encyclopaedia of Renaissance magic — read by alchemists, doctors and astrologers, condemned by inquisitors, and copied by every occultist who came after.
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About this book
How did the Renaissance make a talisman? This notebook is the sixth of Book II in a series that divides Agrippa's work by theme. It contains Book II, chapters 38–52: the images of Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, the Sun, Venus, Mercury and the Moon — which stone, which hour and which figure; the dragon's head and tail; the twenty-eight talismans of the mansions of the Moon; the images of the fifteen Behenian stars; the sixteen geomantic figures; images made "after the mind of the maker"; the celestial observations for their practice; and the characters drawn from geomantic figures and from things themselves.
What is inside
- 15 complete chapters of Agrippa's text, nothing shortened
- every chapter in four parts: In Agrippa's words · In plain words · Terms (with the Latin) · Historical note — where the idea comes from and what modern science says
- 15 original illustrations in an antique archival style, plus the plates of the 1533 edition: the dragon, the signs of the Behenian stars, the table of geomantic figures and the planetary characters
- 2 printable charts: the images of the seven planets (stone, hour, figure, purpose) and the 16 geomantic figures with their elements, planets and signs
- foreword, closing words and a 84-term glossary
Who it is for
Readers of Renaissance magic, the history of astrology, geomancy and the Western esoteric tradition who want the original text made readable — and honestly explained.
About the series
1 The Power of Numbers · 2 The Sacred Numbers · 3 Marks and the Tables of the Planets · 4 Harmony and the Measure of Man · 5 Observations of the Heavens · 6 Images, Talismans and Characters · 7 The Soul of the World. Each notebook sold separately.
A historical text, not a manual.
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