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- 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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Jul 22, 2024 · In the 16th century the term occult gained additional meanings, coming to also describe specific traditions of thought, usually called “occult sciences” or “occult philosophies.” Among the traditions repeatedly labeled under these terms were alchemy , astrology , and magia naturalis (“natural magic”), all of which are now typically ...
- Ethan Doyle White
Feb 15, 2017 · In Book I Agrippa explores the elemental world, reviewing the manifest and occult virtues of stones, plants, animals, and human individuals. Occult virtues, on which natural magic mainly focuses, are explained by the relationship of causal correspondence, connecting the eternal exemplars, the ideas, to the sublunary forms through the stars.
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa’s manual of learned magic, De occulta philosophia (1533), explicated the ways in which magicians understood and manipulated the cosmos more systematically than any of his predecessors.
Oct 1, 2007 · Dee's first published work of any significance as a natural philosopher was the Propaedeumata aphoristica (Aphoristic Propositions) (1558), 120 aphorisms relating to ‘certain preeminent virtues of nature’ and engaged with both astronomy and astrology, displaying Dee's interest in cosmology, natural philosophy and scientific method in a ...
- Peter J. Forshaw
- 2007
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.
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.