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    • Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim

      • Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim (1486 – 1535?) provided the first definitive statement for occult philosophy in his masterwork, De Occulta Philosophia Libri Tres (Three books on occult philosophy), originally drafted in 1510 but greatly revised for its final publication in 1533.
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  2. Oct 29, 2010 · The Occult philosophy drew liberally not just from Christian theology, but also from pagan and eastern beliefs. Occult practice seems to have been both unorthodox and, apparently, threatening to the Church.

  3. Neoplatonism, the foundation for much of later occult philosophy, naturally stemmed from Platonism starting with (as it is generally considered) Plotinus and developed further by Porphry, Iamblicus, and Proclus in the first few centuries CE.

  4. Jul 22, 2024 · Blavatskys work was the ideological core of Theosophy, an esoteric new religion established in the United States during the 1870s, and she used occultism in reference to the ancient wisdom tradition that she claimed to be promoting on behalf of “the Masters,” a secretive body of spiritual adepts purportedly based in Tibet.

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  5. Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim (1486 – 1535?) provided the first definitive statement for occult philosophy in his masterwork, De Occulta Philosophia Libri Tres (Three books on occult philosophy), originally drafted in 1510 but greatly revised for its final publication in 1533.

  6. Oct 31, 2021 · With the advent of the Protestant Reformation, Luther and Calvin denounced heterodox practices, initiating the steady decline of the practice of occult philosophy. Jon and Ken consider the importance of language in various spiritual systems of belief.

  7. Three Books of Occult Philosophy (De Occulta Philosophia libri III) is Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa's study of occult philosophy, acknowledged as a significant contribution to the Renaissance philosophical discussion concerning the powers of magic, and its relationship with religion.

  8. In the 1960s, the relationship of the occult to the prevailing conception of a scientific revolution became tangled up with a hypothesis attributed, somewhat unfairly, to Frances Yates. A leading scholar of occult philosophy in the Renaissance period, Yates was one of the earliest proponents of its influence on science.