Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa

German polymath, physician, legal scholar and soldier (1486-1535) · Germany · Doctors · Died at 48

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A Renaissance lawyer who moonlit as one of Europe's most influential occultists, writing the era's definitive grimoire on magic while somehow also practicing medicine, soldiering, and dodging inquisitors.

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1535Died18 February 15351531“Cornelius Agrippa to the reader”In their wordsThree books of Occult Philosophy or Magic (1531 - 1533)Read the whole statement

“The supercilious censors will object against the Sybils, holy Magicians and the Gospel itself sooner than receive the name of Magic into favor.”In their wordsThree books of Occult Philosophy or Magic (1531 - 1533)Read the whole statement

“I confess that Magic teacheth many superfluous things, and curious prodigies for ostentation; leave them as empty things, yet be not ignorant of their causes.”In their wordsThree books of Occult Philosophy or Magic (1531 - 1533)Read the whole statement

“John Trithmius...to Henry Cornelius Agrippa... Your work, most renowned Agrippa, entitled Of Occult Philosophy, which you have sent by this bearer to me, has been examined.”In their wordsThree books of Occult Philosophy or Magic (1531 - 1533)Read the whole statement

“How Magicians Collect Virtues from the Three-fold World, is Declared in these Three Books.”In their wordsThree books of Occult Philosophy or Magic (1531 - 1533)Read the whole statement

“Moreover, they ratify and confirm all these with the powers of diverse Intelligences, through the sacred ceremonies of religions.”In their wordsThree books of Occult Philosophy or Magic (1531 - 1533)Read the whole statement

1486Born14 September 1486

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Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa

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Cornelius Agrippa to the reader
1531, Three books of Occult Philosophy or Magic (1531 - 1533), Own words
The supercilious censors will object against the Sybils, holy Magicians and the Gospel itself sooner than receive the name of Magic into favor.
1531, Three books of Occult Philosophy or Magic (1531 - 1533), Own words
I confess that Magic teacheth many superfluous things, and curious prodigies for ostentation; leave them as empty things, yet be not ignorant of their causes.
1531, Three books of Occult Philosophy or Magic (1531 - 1533), Own words

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About this person

Born in 1486, Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim moved through Renaissance Germany as physician, legal scholar, soldier, knight, and theologian - a polymath's résumé that somehow left room for his real passion. In 1533 he published Three Books of Occult Philosophy, a sprawling synthesis of Kabbalah, Hermeticism, and Neoplatonism that became the foundational text for early modern esoteric thought. The inquisitor of Cologne condemned it as heretical. Esotericists across Europe devoured it anyway. He died in 1535, leaving behind a grimoire that outlived the controversy.

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