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MageSteff
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Info: W 4 may lead to Trithemius.....

I'm spoilering this for now, I'll edit later to remove that in a few days....
*EDIT* Spoilers removed.

Agrippa

The picture comes from here:
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Agora/7850/agrip155.gif

Ref:
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Agora/7850/

Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim
"Recent historical investigation... assigns him a central place in the history of ideas of the Middle Ages; he is seen as characterizing the main line of intellectual development from Nicholas of Cusa to Sebastian Franck. Modern opinion evaluates him on the basis of his Platonic, Neoplatonic, and Hermetic influences - primarily in the De occulta philosophia..."

"In his influential work De occulta philosophia libri tres (1531), Agrippa combined magic, astrology, Qabbalah, theurgy, medecine, and the occult properties of plants, rocks, and metals. This work was an important factor in the spread of the idea of occult sciences." ; "The magical interpretation of Qabbalah reached its peak in Henri Cornelius Agrippa of Nettesheim's De occulta philosophia.".
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Agrippa was 23 years old when he sent the manuscript of De occulta philosophia to his friend and teacher Johannes Trithemius, abbot of Spanheim, near W�rzburg (Trithemius was also Paracelsus' teacher of alchemy).

Trithemius was 23 when he became abbot of Spanheim. Inside the walls of his abbey was the furnace where, after Pico, Renaissance humanism melted with Ancient magic to revive hidden Tradition in Europe. The manuscript of Agrippa may now be found in the W�rzburg Universit�tsbibliothek (ms. M. ch. q. 50). The huge collection of Trithemius, consisting of magical treatises and manuscripts, came into the hands of Agrippa after his teacher's death, not without the care of Trithemius.

He knew that the young Agrippa was on a way Tradition reserved to few�, he also knew what it meant and warned him: "Unum hoc tamen te monimus custodire pr�ceptum, ut vulgaria vulgaribus, altiora vero et arcana altioribus atque secretis tantum communices amicis: da foenum bovi, saccarum psitaco tantum - intellige mentem, ne boum calcibis (ut plerisque contingit) subiiciaris.". Many scholars knew Trithemius as a prophet, and his words were to become immediate reality �. Agrippa had to leave the continent, accused of judaicising heresy.

May 1524. He went to Lyon as court physician to Louise de Savoy, �.. During the same year began an impressive conjunction of planets - the Big Parade, which rose dramatically the interest in astrology and it became the celebrity of the day. All authorities and influential people amused themselves in ordering horoscopes even for the most trivial decisions.

Possible place to look for the Fourth Book?
http://www.esotericarchives.com/agrippa/agrippa4.htm

Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa (1486-1535) is the most influential writer of Renaissance esoterica. His de occulta philosophia appeared in three books. Written from 1509 to 1510 (he would have been 23 at the time), it circulated widely in manuscript form, and was eventually printed in 1533. It is a "systematic exposition of ... Ficinian spiritual magic and Trithemian demonic magic (and) ... treatised in practical magic" (I. P. Couliano in Hidden Truths 1987, p. 114).
The so-called Fourth Book appeared in Latin some thirty years after Agrippa's death. Johann Weyer, a student of Agrippa's, denounced this work to be spurious (cf. Praestigiis Daemonum, 1563) and that evaluation has rarely been questioned. An exception to this is Stephen Skinner in his 1978 introduction to the facsimile edition published by Askin Publishers.

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Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2003 8:47 pm

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