Agrippa · The Occult Philosophy
Book I · Notebook 7 of 7
The Power of Words and Letters
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
What power does a word have? Can a name, a song or an inscription act upon the world — and why did Agrippa divide the Hebrew, Greek and Latin letters among the signs and planets? This beautifully illustrated notebook is the seventh and last of Book I in a series that divides Agrippa's work by theme. It contains Book I, chapters 69–74: the power of speech and words, proper names, composed songs and enchantments, the wondrous power of incantations, the virtue of writing and the making of curses and inscriptions, and the proportion and correspondence of letters with the signs, planets and elements in several languages, with the original table of letters from 1533.
What is inside
- 6 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
- 6 original illustrations in an antique archival style, plus the original 1533 table of letters
- 2 printable charts: the correspondences of Hebrew, Greek and Latin letters with the signs, planets and elements, and a wheel of the 22 Hebrew letters
- foreword, closing words and a 36-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.
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