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Three Books of Occult Philosophy/Book 3

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The third and last Book of Magick,

or Occult Philosophy; written by


Henry Cornelius Agrippa.



BOOK III.




Book III.


CHAP. I.
OF the necessity, power, and profit of Religion. pag.345
Chap. 2. Of concealing of those thing which are secret in Religion. pag.346
Chap. 3. What dignification is required, that one may be a true Magician and a worker of miracles. pag.340
Chap. 4. Of the two helps of Ceremoniall Magic, Religion and Superstition. pag.352
Chap. 5. Of the three Guides of Religion, which bring us to the path of Truth. pag.355
Chap. 6. How by these guides the soul of man ascendeth up into the Divine nature, and is made a worker of Miracles. pag.357
Chap. 7. That the knowledge of the true God is necessary for a Magician, and what the old Magicians and Philosophers have thought concerning God. pag.358
Chap. 8. What the Ancient Philosophers have thought concerning the Divine Trinity. pag.361
Chap. 9. What the true and most Orthodox faith is concerning God and the most holy Trinity]] pag.365
Chap. 10. Of divine emanations, which the Hebrews call Numerations, others attributes; The Gentiles gods and Deities; and of the ten Sephiroths and ten most sacred names of God which rule them, and the interpretation of them. pag.366
Chap. 11. Of the Divine names, and their power and vertue. pag.370
Chap. 12. Of the influence of the divine names through all the middle causes into these inferior things. pag.379
Chap. 13. Of the members of God, and of their influence on our members. pag.382
Chap. 14. Of the Gods of the Gentiles, and souls of the Celestial bodies, and what places were consecrated in times past, and to what Deities. pag.384
Chap. 15. What our Theologians think concerning the Celestiall souls. pag.389
Chap. 16. Of Intelligences and spirits, and of the threefold kind of them, and of their diverse names, and of Infernal and subterraneal spirits. pag.390
Chap. 17. Of these according to the opinion of the Theologians. pag.395
Chap. 18. Of the orders of evil spirits, and of their fall, and divers natures. pag.397
Chap. 19. Of the bodies of the Devils. pag.402
Chap. 20. Of the annoyance of evil spirits, and the preservation we have by good spirits. pag.405
Chap. 21. Of obeying a proper Genius, and of the searching out the nature thereof. pag.408
Chap. 22. That there is a threefold keeper of man, and from whence each of them proceed. pag.410
Chap. 23. Of the tongue of Angels, and of their speaking amongst themselves, and with us. pag.412
Chap. 24. Of the names of Spirits, and their various imposition; and of the Spirits that are set over the Stars, Signs, Corners of the Heaven, and the Elements. pag.414
Chap. 25. How the Hebrew Mecubals draw forth the sacred names of Angels out of the sacred writ, and of the seventie two Angels, which bear the name of God, with the Tables of Ziruph, and the Commutations of letters and numbers. pag.417
Chap. 26. Of finding out of the names of spirits, and Genius's from the disposition of Celestial bodies. pag.428
Chap. 27. Of the calculating Art of such names by the tradition of Cabalists. pag.430
Chap. 28. How sometimes names of Spirits are taken from those things over which they are set. pag.435
Chap. 29. Of the Characters and Seals of spirits. pag.437
Chap. 30. Another manner of making Characters, delivered by Cabalists. pag.439
Chap. 31. There is yet another fashion of Characters, and concerning marks of spirits which are received only by revelation. pag.445
Chap. 32. How good spirits may be called up by us, and how evil spirits may be overcome by us. pag.447
Chap. 33. Of the bonds of spirits, and of their adjurations, and castings out. pag.451
Chap. 34. Of the Animasticall order, and the Heros. pag.453
Chap. 35. Of the Mortall and Terrestrial Gods. pag.455
Chap. 36. Of man, how he was created after the Image of God. pag.457
Chap. 37. Of mans soul, and through what means it is joyned to the body. pag.465
Chap. 38. What Divine gifts man receiveth from above, from the several orders of the Intelligences and the heavens. pag.466
Chap. 39. How the superior Influences, seeing they are good by nature, are depraved in these inferior things, and are made causes of evil. pag.469
Chap. 40. That on every man a divine Character is imprinted, by the vertue of which man can attain the working of miracles. pag.471
Chap. 41. What concerning man after death, diverse Opinions. pag.473
Chap. 42. By what wayes the Magicians and Necromancers do think they can call forth the souls of the dead. pag.488
Chap. 43. Of the power of mans soul, in the mind, reason and imagination. pag.492
Chap. 44. Of the degrees of souls, and their destruction, or Immortality. pag.496
Chap. 45. Of Soothsaying, and Phrensie. pag.499
Chap. 46. Of the first kind of phrensie from the Muses. pag.500
Chap. 47. Of the second kinde from Dionysius. pag.503
Chap. 48. Of the third kind of phrensie from Apollo. pag.504
Chap. 49. Of the fourth kinde of Phrensie, from Venus. pag.507
Chap. 50. Of rapture, and extasie, and soothsayings, which happen to them which are taken with the falling sickness, or with a swoune, or to them in an agonie. pag.508
Chap. 51. Of Propheticall Dreams. pag.511
Chap. 52. Of Lots and marks possessing the sure power of Oracles. pag.515
Chap. 53. How he that will receive Oracles must dispose himself. pag.517
Chap. 54. Of cleanness, and how to be observed. pag.520
Chap. 55. Of abstinence, fastings, chastity, solitariness, the tranquillity and ascent of the mind. pag.522
Chap. 56. Of Penitency, and Alms. pag.526
Chap. 57. Of those things which being outwardly administred conduce to Expiation. pag.527
Chap. 58. Of adorations, and vows. pag.529
Chap. 59. Of sacrifices and oblations, and their kinds and manners. pag.53
Chap. 60. What imprecations and rites the ancient, were wont to use in sacrifices, and oblations. pag.537
Chap. 61. How these things must be performed, as to God, so as to inferiour dieties. pag.538
Chap. 62. Of consecrations, and their manner. pag.540
Chap. 63. What things may be called holy, what consecrated, and how these become so betwixt us and the Dieties; and of sacred times. pag.542
Chap. 64. Of certain Religious observations, ceremonies, and rites of perfumings, unctions, and such like. pag.548
Chap. 65. The Conclusion of the whole work. pag.555

FINIS.