De Occulta Philosophia · Book One
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa · Cologne 1533 · Latin / close translation / modern rendering
Working draft — 74 of 74 chapters — protected staging
Chapter 1
How magicians draw power from the three worlds
Chapter 2
What magic is, and who is fit to practise it
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Chapter 3
The four elements: their qualities and how they mix
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Chapter 4
The three orders of the elements
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Chapter 5
The marvelous nature of fire and earth
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Chapter 6
The marvels of water, air, and wind.
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Chapter 7
How composite things relate to the elements, and what the elements share with the soul, the senses, and character.
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Chapter 8
How the elements exist in the heavens, in the stars, in demons, in angels, and even in God.
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Chapter 9
The powers of natural things that come directly from the elements.
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Chapter 10
The hidden powers of things.
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Chapter 11
How hidden powers flow into the species of things from the Ideas, by way of the soul of the world's rational principles and the rays of the stars — and which things have more of this power than others.
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Chapter 12
How different powers flow into different individuals, even within the same species.
Chapter 13
Where the hidden powers of things come from.
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Chapter 14
What the spirit of the world is, and how it binds hidden powers
Chapter 15
How to investigate and test the powers of things, through likeness.
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Chapter 16
How different powers pass from one thing to another and are shared between them.
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Chapter 17
How to investigate and test the powers of things through their enmities and friendships.
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Chapter 18
The tendencies behind enmities.
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Chapter 19
How to investigate and test the powers things have across their whole species, versus the powers that belong only to a particular individual.
Chapter 20
That natural powers exist in some things throughout their whole substance, but in others only in certain specific parts or organs.
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Chapter 21
The powers things have only while alive, and the powers that outlast death.
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Chapter 22
How earthly things fall under the heavenly bodies, and how the human body — and people's occupations and temperaments — are assigned to the planets and zodiac signs.
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Chapter 23
How to tell which star governs a given natural thing — and a catalogue of solar things.
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Chapter 24
The catalogue of lunar things.
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Chapter 25
The catalogue of Saturnine things.
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Chapter 26
Things ruled by Jupiter.
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Chapter 27
Things ruled by Mars.
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Chapter 28
Things ruled by Venus.
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Chapter 29
Things ruled by Mercury.
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Chapter 30
How the whole sublunary world is divided up among the planets.
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Chapter 31
How provinces and kingdoms are divided up among the planets.
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Chapter 32
The fixed stars and their images
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Chapter 33
The signs and symbols of natural things
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Chapter 34
Drawing down celestial influence through natural things
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Chapter 35
How natural things combine, and the uses of that
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Chapter 36
How mixed things unite, and how a nobler, sense-bearing form gets introduced
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Chapter 37
Drawing down celestial and vital gifts through natural and artificial preparations.
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Chapter 38
Receiving not just celestial and vital gifts from above, but intellectual and divine ones too.
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Chapter 39
How certain worldly materials can draw down the world's own divine powers, and the daemons who serve them.
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Chapter 40
Magical bindings: what kinds there are, and how they are usually done.
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Chapter 41
Sorceries and what they can do.
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Chapter 42
The remarkable powers of certain sorcery-substances.
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Chapter 43
Suffumigations: how they work and what they can do.
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Chapter 44
Recipes for fumigations matched to each planet.
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Chapter 45
Eye-salves, ointments, and love-potions: what they can do.
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Chapter 46
Physical bindings and amulets worn on the body.
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Chapter 47
Rings: how to make them and what they do.
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Chapter 48
The power of places, and which places belong to which planet.
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Chapter 49
Light and color: lamps and lanterns, and which planets, houses, and elements govern them
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Chapter 50
Fascination and how it works
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Chapter 51
Certain observances that produce remarkable effects
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Chapter 52
Face, gesture, and bodily form: how they map to the planets, and the basis of physiognomy, face-reading, and palmistry
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Chapter 53
Divination by auspices and by omens from birds.
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Chapter 54
What various animals and other things mean as omens.
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Chapter 55
How omens are confirmed by the light of nature's own sense, with a few rules for testing it.
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Chapter 56
Reading lightning and thunder, and how to interpret portents and strange events.
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Chapter 57
Geomancy, hydromancy, aeromancy, and pyromancy — divination by the four elements.
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Chapter 58
The revival of the dead, extreme long sleep, and living without food.
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Chapter 59
Divination through dreams.
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Chapter 60
Prophetic frenzy while awake, the power of melancholic humor, and how it can even draw demons into a human body.
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Chapter 61
How the human being is formed — the outer and inner senses, the mind, the soul's three drives, and the passions of the will.
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Chapter 62
The passions of the mind: where they come from, and their kinds.
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Chapter 63
How the mind's passions change your own body — shifting its states and stirring the spirit.
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Chapter 64
How the mind's passions change the body by copying what resembles it — and on people being transformed or carried off, and the imagination's power over the soul as well as the body.
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Chapter 65
How the mind's passions can reach beyond the self and act on someone else's body.
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Chapter 66
How the mind's passions get a great boost from the right astrological timing — and why steadiness of mind is essential in any working.
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Chapter 67
How the human soul can join with the souls and intelligences of the heavens, and together with them stamp remarkable powers onto things below.
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Chapter 68
How our soul can change and bind lower things to what it wants.
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Chapter 69
Speech and the power of words.
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Chapter 70
The power of proper names.
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Chapter 71
The remarkable power of incantations.
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Chapter 72
The extraordinary power of incantations.
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Chapter 73
The power of writing, and how to make curses and inscriptions.
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Chapter 74
How letters correspond and reduce to the zodiac signs and planets across different languages, with a table.
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