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Purity and Preparation
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
Before receiving a divine revelation, a person must become pure. This notebook is Agrippa's "book of preparation" — on the cleansing of body and soul. This is notebook 10 of 11 of Book III, "Of Ceremonial Magic", in a series that divides Agrippa's work by theme. It contains chapters 53–57 of Book III: how one who wishes to receive oracles must prepare himself; purity and how it is kept; abstinence, fasting, chastity, solitude and peace and elevation of mind; penitence and the gifts of grace; and the outward means that help towards purification.
What is inside
- Book III, chapters 53–57 — Agrippa's complete 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
- 5 original illustrations in an antique archival style
- 2 printable charts: "The Four Ways and the Means of Purification" and "From the Many to the One"
- foreword, closing words and a 27-term glossary
Who it is for
Readers of Renaissance philosophy, the history of religion, angelology, Kabbalah and the Western esoteric tradition who want the original text made readable — and honestly explained.
About the series
1 The Path of the Magus · 2 God and the Holy Names · 3 Gods, Spirits and Demons · 4 The Guardian Angel and the Language of Angels · 5 The Names of Spirits · 6 Seals of the Spirits · 7 Man, the Image of God · 8 The Soul after Death · 9 Ecstasy, Prophecy and Dreams · 10 Purity and Preparation · 11 Sacrifices, Consecrations and Holy Days. Each notebook sold separately.
A historical text, not a manual.
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