Three Books of Occult Philosophy/Book 1
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An Index of all the Chapters
which are contained in this Work.
Book I.
| Chap. 1. | How Magicians Collect vertues from the three-fold World, is declared in these three Books. | pag.1 |
| Chap. 2. | What Magick is, what are the Parts thereof, and how the Professors thereof must be qualified. | pag.2 |
| Chap. 3. | Of the four Elements, their qualities, and mutual mixtions. | pag.6 |
| Chap. 4. | Of a three-fold consideration of the Elements. | pag.7 |
| Chap. 5. | Of the wonderfull Natures of Fire, and Earth. | pag.9 |
| Chap. 6. | Of the wonderfull Natures of Water, Aire, and Winds. | pag.11 |
| Chap. 7. | Of the kinds of compounds, what relation they stand in to the Elements, and what relation there is betwixt the Elements themselves, and the soul, senses, and dispositions of men. | pag.18 |
| Chap. 8. | How the Elements are in the Heavens, in Stars, in Divels, in Angels, and lastly in God himself. | pag.20 |
| Chap. 9. | Of the vertues of things Naturall, depending immediatly upon Elements. | pag.22 |
| Chap. 10. | Of the Occult Vertues of things. | pag.24 |
| Chap. 11. | How Occult Vertues are infused into the several kinds of things by Idea's, through the help of the Soul of the World, and rayes of the Stars: and what things abound most with this Vertue. | pag.26 |
| Chap. 12. | How it is that particular Vertues are infused into particular Individuals, even of the same Species. | pag.27 |
| Chap. 13. | Whence the Occult Vertues of things proceed. | pag.29 |
| Chap. 14. | Of the Spirit of the World, what it is, and how by way of medium it unites occult Vertues to their subjects. | pag.32 |
| Chap. 15. | How we must find out, and examine the Vertues of things by way of similitude. | pag.34 |
| Chap. 16. | How the operations of several Vertues pass from one thing into another, and are communicated one to the other. | pag.36 |
| Chap. 17. | How by enmity and friendship the vertues of things are to be tryed, and found out. | pag.37 |
| Chap. 18. | Of the Inclinations of Enmities. | pag.40 |
| Chap. 19. | How the Vertues of things are to be tryed and found out, which are in them specifically, or in any one Individuall by way of speciall gift. | pag.43 |
| Chap. 20. | The naturall Vertues are in some things throughout their whole substance, and inother things in certain parts, and members. | pag.44 |
| Chap. 21. | Of the Vertues of things which are in them only in their life time, and such as remain in them even after their death. | pag.45 |
| Chap. 22. | How inferior things are subjected to superior bodies, and how the bodies, the actions, and dispositions of men are ascribed to Stars, and Signs. | pag.48 |
| Chap. 23. | How we shall know what Stars naturall things are under, and what things are under the Sun, which are called Solary. | pag.50 |
| Chap. 24. | What things are Lunary, or under the power of the Moon. | pag.54 |
| Chap. 25. | What things are Saturnine, or under the power of Saturn. | pag.55 |
| Chap. 26. | What things are under the power of Jupiter, and are called Jovial. | pag.57 |
| Chap. 27. | What things are Under the power of Mars, and are called Martial. | pag.58 |
| Chap. 28. | What things are under the power of Venus, and are called Venereall. | pag.59 |
| Chap. 29. | What things are under the power of Mercury, and are called Mercuriall. | pag.60 |
| Chap. 30. | That the whole sublunary World, and those things which are in it, are distributed to Planets. | pag.61 |
| Chap. 31. | How Provinces, and Kingdoms are distributed to Planets. | pag.62 |
| Chap. 32. | What things are under the Signs, the fixed Stars, and their Images. | pag.63 |
| Chap. 33. | Of the Seals, and Characters of Naturall things. | pag.65 |
| Chap. 34. | How, by Naturall things, and their vertues, we may draw forth and attract the influences, and vertues of Celestial bodies. | pag.69 |
| Chap. 35. | Of the Mixtions of naturall things one with another, and their Benefit. | pag.70 |
| Chap. 36. | Of the Union of mixt things, and the introduction of a more noble form, and the senses of life. | pag.72 |
| Chap. 37. | How, by some certain naturall, and artificiall preparations we may attract certain Celestiall, and vitall gifts. | pag.73 |
| Chap. 38. | How we may draw not only Celestial, and vital, but also certain Intellectual, and divine gifts from above. | pag.75 |
| Chap. 39. | That we may by some certain matters of the world stir up the Gods of the world, and their ministring spirits. | pag.77 |
| Chap. 40. | Of bindings, what sort they are of, and in what wayes they are wont to be done. | pag.78 |
| Chap. 41. | Of Sorceries, and their power. | pag.79 |
| Chap. 42. | Of the wonderfull vertues of some kinds of Sorceries. | pag.81 |
| Chap. 43. | Of perfumes, or Suffumigations, their manner, and power. | pag.85 |
| Chap. 44. | The composition of some fumes appropriated to the Planets. | pag.88 |
| Chap. 45. | Of Collyries, Unctions, Love-Medicines, and their vertues. | pag.90 |
| Chap. 46. | Of naturall alligations, and suspensions. | pag.92 |
| Chap. 47. | Of Rings, and their compositions. | pag.94 |
| Chap. 48. | Of the vertue of places, and what places are sutable to every Star. | pag.95 |
| Chap. 49. | Of Light, Colours, Candles, and Lamps, and to what Stars, Houses, and Elements severall colours are ascribed. | pag.97 |
| Chap. 50. | Of Fascination, and the Art thereof. | pag.101 |
| Chap. 51. | Of certain observations producing wonderfull Vertues. | pag.102 |
| Chap. 52. | Of the Countenance, and Gesture, the Habit, and Figure of the Body, and to what Stars any of these do answer; whence Physiognomy, and Metoposcopy, and Chiromancy, Arts of divination, have their grounds. | pag.105 |
| Chap. 53. | Of Divination, and its kinds. | pag.108 |
| Chap. 54. | Of divers certain Animals, and other things which have a signification in Auguria's. | pag.110 |
| Chap. 55. | How Auspica's are verified by the light of Naturall instinct, and of some rules of finding of it out. | pag.117 |
| Chap. 56. | Of the Soothsayings of Flashes, and Lightnings, and how monstrous and prodigious things are to be interpreted. | pag.123 |
| Chap. 57. | Of Geomancy, Hydromancy, Aeromancy, and Pyromancy, four Divinations of Elements. | pag.125 |
| Chap. 58. | Of the reviving of the dead, and of sleeping, and wanting victuals Many Years together. | pag.127 |
| Chap. 59. | Of divination by dreams. | pag.131 |
| Chap. 60. | Of Madness, and Divinations which are made when men are awake, and of the power of a Melancholy humor, by which Spirits are sometimes induced into mens bodies. | pag.132 |
| Chap. 61. | Of the forming of Man of the external Senses, and also the Inward, and the mind: of the threefold appetite of the Soul, and passions of the Will. | pag.136 |
| Chap. 62. | Of the Passions of the Mind, their Original, difference, and kinds. | pag.139 |
| Chap. 63. | How the passions of the mind change the proper body, by changing the Accidents, and moving the spirit. | pag.141 |
| Chap. 64. | How the passions of the mind change the body by way of imitation from some resemblance; Also of the transforming, and translating of men, and what force the imaginative power hath not only over the body, but the soul. | pag.142 |
| Chap. 65. | How the Passions of the Mind can work out of themselves upon anothers Body. | pag.145 |
| Chap. 66. | That the Passions of the Mind are helped by a Celestiall season, and how necessary the Constancy of the mind is in every work. | pag.147 |
| Chap. 67. | How mans mind may be joyned with the mind and Intelligences of the Celestials, and, together with them, impress certain wonderfull vertues upon inferiour things. | pag.149 |
| Chap. 68. | How our mind can change, and bind inferior things to that which it desires. | pag.150 |
| Chap. 69. | Of Speech, and the vertue of Words. | pag.151 |
| Chap. 70. | Of the vertue of proper names. | pag.153 |
| Chap. 71. | Of many words joyned together, as in sentences, and verses; and of the vertues, and astrictions of charms. | pag.155 |
| Chap. 72. | Of the wonderful power of Inchantments. | pag.157 |
| Chap. 73. | Of the vertue of writing, and of making imprecations, and inscriptions. | pag.159 |
| Chap. 74. | Of the proportion, correspondency, reduction of Letters to the Celestiall Signs, and Planets, according to various tongues, with a Table shewing this. | pag.160 |