Magic and the Four Elements

About this book

This beautifully illustrated notebook is the first in a series that divides Agrippa's work by theme. It contains Book I, chapters 1–12: what magic is and what its practitioner must know, the four elements and their threefold nature, how the elements live in stars, spirits and the soul, and the "occult virtues" — powers like the lodestone's pull that no heat or cold can explain.

What is inside

• 12 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
• 12 original illustrations in an antique archival style
• 2 printable charts: the correspondences of the four elements (metals, stones, humours, planets, zodiac, angelic orders) and the circle of the elements
• foreword, closing words and a 60-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 or medical advice.