In the last half of 1509 and the first months of 1510, Cornelius Agrippa, known in his day as a Magician, gathered together all the Mystic lore he had obtained by the energy and ardor of youth and compiled it into the elaborate system of Magic, in three books, known as Occult Philosophy, the first book of which-Natural Magic-constitutes the present volume. Partial List of Contents Natural Magic What Magic Is Four Elements Three-fold Consideration of Elements Kinds of Compounds Occult Virtues of Things Of the Spirit of the World How Inferior Things are Subjected to Superior Bodies What Things are Lunary What Things are under the power of Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Venus, Mercury What Things are Under the Signs Of the Union of Mixed Things Of Bindings Of Sorceries Of Perfumes or Suffumigations Magical Rings Of Light Colors Of Divination Of divers certain Animals Of Geomancy Of the Reviving of the Dead Of Divination by Dreams Of Madness Passions of the Mind Of Speech Of many Words joined toge