The Fourth Book of Occult Philosophy: The Companion to Three Books of Occult Philosophy

by Tyson, Donald

• ISBN13: 9780738718767
• ISBN10: 0738718769
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-11-08
• Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide Ltd

Summary

The Fourth Book of Occult Philosophy by Cornelius Agrippa is considered one of the foundation stones of Western magic. The grimoires it contains are among the most important that exist in the Western tradition. For more than three hundred years, this mysterious grimoire has been regarded as difficult or even impossible to understand-until now.Occult scholar Donald Tyson presents a fully annotated, corrected, and modernized edition of this masterwork that renders it fully accessible to the average reader as well as scholars and skilled magicians. For the first time, these classic works of Western magic are unveiled to everyone seeking to understand them.

Author Biography

Donald Tyson has written more than a dozen books on Western esoteric traditions. He is editor of the contemporary version of Agrippa's seminal work, Three Books of Occult Philosophy.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Title Page, 1655 Edition	p. 7
The Preface, to the unprejudiced Reader	p. 9
Commendatory Poems to Turner by various friends	p. 17
Of Geomancy	p. 25
Of Geomancy	p. 57
Of Occult Philosophy, or Of Magical Ceremonies: The Fourth Book	p. 75
Of Occult Philosophy, The Fourth Book	p. 113
Heptameron: or, Magical Elements	p. 191
Heptameron, or Magical Elements	p. 223
Isagoge: An Introductory Discourse on the Nature of such Spirits as are Exercised in the Sublunary Bounds	p. 243
Isagoge: Of the Nature of Spirits	p. 305
Of Astronomical Geomancy	p. 323
Of Astronomical Geomancy	p. 341
Arbatel of Magic, or the Spiritual Wisdom of the Ancients	p. 367
Arbatel of Magic	p. 405
Bibliography	p. 423
Index	p. 435
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