THIS 26 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Fourth Book of Occult Philosophy, by Henry Cornelius Agrippa. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 1564591700.
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim (most often referred to by the Latinate appellation Cornelius Agrippa, sometimes Anglicized as Henry Cornelius Agrippa) was an occult writer, theologian, astrologer, and alchemist. His writings on magic and occult philosophy were a significant influence on the later work of Giordano Bruno and John Dee, and thus came to underpin much of the Western esoteric tradition.
Agrippa's contents are wonderful; he deserved a better proofreading, though. The subtitles are often broken and inconsistent. I hope that there's going to be an update.