best Agrippa chapter titles

March 9, 2010

His book contains 74 chapters. In my opinion, these are the best of them:

1. How Magicians Collect Virtues from the Threefold World, is Declared in These Three Books

8. How the Elements Are in the Heavens, in Stars, in Devils, in Angels, and, lastly, in God himself

31. How Provinces and Kingdoms are Distributed to Planets

45. Of Collyries, Unctions, Love-Medicines, and their Virtues

47. Of Magical Rings and their Compositions

49. Of Light, Colors, Candles, and Lamps…

50. Of Fascination, and the Art thereof

56. Of the Soothsayings of Flashes and Lightnings, and how Monstrous and Prodigious Things are to be Interpreted

57. Of Geomancy, Hydromancy, Aeromancy, and Pyromancy, Four Divinations of Elements

58. Of the Reviving of the Dead, and of Sleeping or Hibernating (without food) Many Years together

67. How the Mind of Man may be Joined with the Mind of the Stars…

72. Of the wonderful Power of Enchantments

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