The Three Books of Occult Philosophy – Cornelius Agrippa – Renaissance Hermeticism Kabbalah and Magic

Cornelius Agrippa's Three Books of Occult Philosophy, published in 1533, is perhaps the most famous magical book in Western history. In it he describes the process by which the mage can return to his or her prelapsarian, semi-divine state through the process of reformed natural, celestial, and ceremonial magic. Neither a manual nor a summation, this work is often more celebrated or decried than it is really understood. What does Agrippa really teach? How can we reconcile his hermetic idealism with his otherwise radically skeptical attitudes in his other major works of this period? This episode of Esoterica examines this (in)famous text of magic, astrology and cabala.

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