De Occvlta Philosophia. Vol. IV - The Fourth Book by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa

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Translated and introduced by Paul Summers YoungCover Design by Alice WinklerSecond EditionThen rise to your feet and turn around your circle, from east to west, until your head spi ns and you fall to the ground and be still; like that, you will be enraptured, and the spirit you seek will appear and tell you all you want to know.Volume Four of our Agrippa collection comprises new translations of two texts closely related to the Three Books of Occult Philosophy.The first is the 1565 Liber Quartus de Occulta Philosophia, which is a Pseudo-Agrippan gloss on some of Agrippas themes, which was published with a version of Pietro DAbanos Heptameron, which served as a gloss upon the gloss. This apocryphal work went on to lead an interesting and influential afterlife, accompanying the Three Books like an ugly rumour. The second is an expanded selection from De Incertitudine et Vanitate Scientarum of c.1530. The 1533 first edition of the Three Books concludes with extracts from The Uncertainty and Vanity of the Sciences touching upon the books themes; we have expanded upon that to encompass a more complete sample of Agrippas commentary on magic in that book. Rather than being at odds with the Three Books, The Uncertainty and Vanity of the Sciences is the context within which Agrippa published his famous magical textbook.Each Volume has a detailed index at the end of the book.Hardcover bound in Italian Fedrigoni ImitlinMeasures 100x160 mm120-gram black EndpapersPrinted on 115 g wood-free, age-resistant Cream paperSewn Book BlockBlack Bookmark and HeadbandsGilded on the front and spine Show more