Cabalists

The vigor of his attack on all learning and his explicit repudiation of each of the occult sciences, of “ancient theologians” like Hermes Trismegistus and the Cabalists, and even of his own book on magic have forced modern students of Agrippa's thought to face the fundamental question discussed above: how could the same author have written both De vanitate and De occulta philosophia?

Loss of Faith 2009

Following the lead of Pico della Mirandola and Johann Reuchlin, Agrippa found such symbolism and power best expressed in the letter - and number-mysticism of the Jewish Cabalists.

Loss of Faith 2009

Not only does it denounce every field of human learning, including Hermetic philosophy, the Platonists, and the Cabalists, but it also repeatedly presents as evidence of their worthlessness the incessant quarrels and disagreements among philosophers and so-called experts in every field of learning.

Loss of Faith 2009

Though in the published version of De occulta philosophia he still values the purportedly ancient pre-Christian sages and the Cabalists and Neoplatonists, both De vanitate and the contemporaneous Dehortatio gentilis theologiae/A Warning Against Gentile Theology, show that he was aware of the possibility that their influence might be harmful.

Loss of Faith 2009

Obviously, in an age of humanist commitment to “evangelical” reform, this opinion implied trust in the plain words of Scripture; but for Agrippa, it also meant trust in the authority of the works attributed to the “ancient theologians” (prisci theologi), Platonists, and Cabalists.

Loss of Faith 2009

He derives the names of spirits used in ceremonial magic from the Bible as interpreted by the Cabalists.

Loss of Faith 2009

“You said the Truth about the Mother is tied to the Cabalists?”

Hellgate London Covenant Mel Odom 2008

I only know that when the time is right, the Cabalists must recognize that Truth and free it.

Hellgate London Covenant Mel Odom 2008

Electrical sparks jumped on some of the Cabalists in the circle.

Hellgate London Covenant Mel Odom 2008

Either they put up or shut up, those Bush Cabalists.

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