[MR] Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa (1486-1535)

[Sandra Rangel]

Greetings,

I stumbled on this and thought that some people find this interesting...
"De Occulta Philosophia" by Agrippa.

Links of interest to start (you can find more in a web search):

http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/cienciareal/agrippa/agrippa.htm
http://www.esotericarchives.com/agrippa/

"He was for some time in the service of Maximilian I, probably as a soldier
in Italy, but devoted his time mainly to the study of the occult sciences
and to problematic theological legal questions, which exposed him to
various persecutions through life, usually in the mode described above: He
would be privately denounced for one sort of heresy or another....There is
no evidence that Agrippa was seriously accused, much less persecuted, for
his interest in or practice of magical or occult arts during his lifetime,
apart from losing several positions...According to some scholarship, "As
early as 1525 and again as late as 1533 (two years before his death)
Agrippa clearly and unequivocally rejected magic in its totality, from its
sources in imagined antiquity to contemporary practice." Some aspects
remain unclear, but there are those who believe it was sincere (not out of
fear, as a parody, or otherwise). Recent scholarship (see Further Reading
below, in Lehrich, Nauert, and van der Poel) generally agrees that this
rejection or repudiation of magic is not what it seems: Agrippa never
rejected magic in its totality, but he did retract his early manuscript of
the *Occult Philosophy<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_occulta_philosophia_libri_tres>
* - to be replaced by the later form." Excerpt from
here<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Cornelius_Agrippa>
.


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Lady Rohesia Anven of Thessaloniki