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