Sacrifices, Consecrations and Holy Days

About this book

With this notebook ends not only Book III but the whole of Agrippa's Three Books of Occult Philosophy. Its subject is religious practice: worship, sacrifice, consecration and holy times. This is notebook 11 of 11 of Book III, "Of Ceremonial Magic", in a series that divides Agrippa's work by theme. It contains chapters 58–65 of Book III: adoration and vows; sacrifices and oblations, their kinds and manners; the prayers and rites the ancients used at sacrifices; how all this is to be shown to God and to the lesser deities; consecrations and their ground; what is called holy and consecrated, and holy times; religious observances and ceremonies — fumigations and anointings; and the conclusion of the whole work.

What is inside

• Book III, chapters 58–65 — 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
• 8 original illustrations in an antique archival style
• 2 printable charts: "Adoration and Sacrifice" and "Consecration, Holiness and Holy Times"
• foreword, closing words and a 49-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.