AGRIPPA

In the writings of the Greek philosophers of the Neo-Platonic school, in that curious body of esoteric Jewish lore known as the Kabala, and in the works of later occult philosophers such as AGRIPPA and PARACELSUS, we find magic, or rather the theory upon which magic as an art was based, presented in its most philosophical form.

Bygone Beliefs 1969

AGRIPPA, and BARRETT copying him, gives the following table of "names answering to the numbers of Mars": --

Bygone Beliefs 1969

[27] HENRY CORNELIUS AGRIPPA: Occult Philosophy, bk.i. chap. xv.

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AGRIPPA uses the theory to explain all the marvels which his age accredited, marvels which we know had for the most part no existence outside of man's imagination.

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Some further particulars are shown in the annexed table, for which I am mainly indebted to AGRIPPA.

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For instance, as a nexus between spirit and matter AGRIPPA places the stars: modern thought prefers the ether.

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-- Principalities, Archangels, and Angels, -- and this classification was adopted by AGRIPPA and others.

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AGRIPPA (63-12), an eminent general and statesman, was a warm friend and counsellor of Augustus.

Ancient Rome : from the earliest times down to 476 A. D. Robert Franklin Pennell

CORNELIUS AGRIPPA: (1486-1535) a student of magic.

The Short-story William Patterson Atkinson

Enter CÆSAR, reading a letter; AGRIPPA, MECÆNAS, and Others.

Act IV. Scene I. Antony and Cleopatra 1914