Agrippa · The Occult Philosophy
Book I · Notebook 5 of 7
Light, Fascination and Divination
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
Can a colour carry the power of a star? Can a gaze bewitch? Can the flight of a bird or a clap of thunder foretell the future? This beautifully illustrated notebook is the fifth in a series that divides Agrippa's work by theme. It contains Book I, chapters 49–57: the power of light, colours and lamps and which colours belong to which stars, fascination by the eyes, observances believed to create wondrous powers, physiognomy, metoposcopy and palmistry, augury from birds and other animals, how omens were tested, signs from lightning and prodigies, and geomancy, hydromancy, aeromancy and pyromancy.
What is inside
- 9 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
- 9 original illustrations in an antique archival style
- 2 printable charts: the colours of the planets, houses, elements and humours, and the divinations of the four elements with what the ancients watched
- foreword, closing words and a 45-term glossary
Who it is for
Readers of Hermeticism, alchemy, Renaissance history and the Western esoteric tradition who want the original text made readable — and honestly explained.
About the series
1 Magic and the Four Elements · 2 Occult Virtues, Sympathies and Antipathies · 3 The World of the Planets · 4 Talismans, Fumigations and Rings · 5 Light, Fascination and Divination · 6 Dreams, the Soul and the Imagination · 7 The Power of Words and Letters. Each notebook sold separately.
A historical text, not a manual of fortune-telling.
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