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OF O CCULT P HILOSOPHY

OF M AGICAL C EREMONIES:

T HE F OURTH B OOK

HENRY CORNELIUS AGRIPPA

Transcribed directly from the 1654 translation by Robert Turner, published

along with other collected papers as The Fourth Book of Occult Philosophy . No

part of this edition is under copyright.

Acrobat version created by Benjamin Rowe, September 30, 2000.

HENRY CORNELIUS AGRIPPA,

Of O ccult P hilosophy

Of M agical C eremonies:

T he F ourth B ook

In our Books of Occult Philosophy, we have not so compendiously, as copi-

ously, declared the principles, grounds, and reasons of Magick it self, and

after what maner the experiments thereof are to be chosen, elected, and com-

pounded, to produce many wonderful effects; but because in those books they

are treated of, rather Theorically, than Practically; and some also are not han-

dled compleatly and fully, and others very figuratively, and as it were Enig-

matically and obscure Riddles, as being those which we have attained unto

with great study, diligence, and very curious searching and exploration, and

are heretofore set forth in a more rude and unfashioned maner. Therefore in

this book, which we have composed and made as it were a Complement and

Key of our other books of Occult Philosophy, and of all Magical Operations,

we will give unto thee the documents of holy and undefiled verity, and Inex-

pugnable and Unresistable Magical Discipline, and most pleasant and delec-

table experiments of the sacred Deities. So that as by the reading of our other

books of Occult Philosophy, thou maist earnestly covet the knowledge of

these things; even so with reading this book, thou shalt truely triumph.

Wherefore let silence hide these things within the secret closets of they reli-

gious breast, and conceal them with constant Taciturnity.

This therefore is to be known, That the names of the intelligent presidents

of every one of the Planets are constituted after this maner: that is to say, By

collecting together the letters out of the figure of the world, from the rising of

the body of the Planet, according to the succession of the Signes through the

several degrees; and out of the several degrees, from the aspects of the Planet

himself, the calculation being made from the degree of the ascendant. In the

like maner are constituted the names of the Princes of the evil spirits; they are

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taken under all the Planets of the presidents in a retrograde order, the projec-

tion being made contrary to the succession of the Signes, from the beginning

of the seventh House. Now the name of the supreme & highest intelligence,

which many do suppose to be the soul of the world, is collected out of the

four Cardinal points of the figure of the world, after the maner already deliv-

ered: & by the opposite and contrary way, is known the name of the great

Daemon, or evil spirit, upon the four cadent Angles. In the like maner shalt

thou understand the names of the great presidential spirits ruling in the Air,

from the four Angles of the succedent Houses; so that as to obtain the names

of the good spirits, the calculation is to be made according to the succession

of the signes, beginning from the degree of the ascendant; and to attain to the

names of the evil spirits, by working the contrary way.

You must also observe, that the names of the evil spirits are extracted,

aswel from the names of the good spirits, as of the evil: so notwithstanding,

that if we enter the table with the name of a good spirit of the second order,

the name of the evil spirit shall be extracted from the order of the Princes and

Governours; but if we enter the table with the name of an evil spirit a Gover-

nour, after what maner soever they are extracted, whether by this table, or

from a celestial figure, the names which to proceed from hence, shall be the

names of evil spirits, the Ministers of the inferiour order.

It is further to be noted, That as often as we enter this table with the good

spirits of the second order, the names extracted are of the second order: and if

under them we extract the name of an evil spirit, he is of the superiour order

of the Governours. The same order is, if we enter with the name of an evil

spirit of the superiour order. If therefore we enter this table with the names of

the spirits of the third order, or with the names of the ministring spirits,

aswel of the good spirits, as of the evil, the names extracted shall be the

names of the ministring spirits of the inferiour order.

But many Magicians, men of no small Authority, will have the tables of

this kinde to be extended with Latine letters: so that by the same tables also,

out of the name of any office or effect, might be found out the name of any

spirit, aswel good as evil, by the same maner which is above delivered, by tak-

ing the name of the office or of the effect, in the columne of letters, in their

own line, under their own star. And of this practice Trismegistus is a great

Author, who delivered this kinde of calculation in Egyptian letters: not

unproperly also may the be referred to other letters of other tongues, for the

reasons assigned to the signes; for truly he only is extant of all men, who have

treated concerning the attaining to the names of spirits.

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Therefore the force, secrecy and power, in what maner the sacred names of

spirits are truly and rightly found out, consisteth in the disposing of the vow-

els, which do make the name of a spirit, and wherewith is constituted the true

name and right word. Now this art is thus perfected and brought to pass:

first, we are to take heed of the placing the vowels of the letters, which are

found by the calculation of the celestial figure, to finde the names of the spir-

its of the second order, Presidents and Governours. And this in the good

spirits, is thus brought to effect, by considering the starts which do constitute

and make the letters, and by placing them according to their order: first, let

the degree of the eleventh House be subtracted from the degree of that star

which is first in order; and that which remaineth thereof, let it be projected

from the degree of the ascendant, and where that number endeth, there is

part of the vowel of the first letter: begin therefore to calculate the vowels of

these letters, according to their number and order; and the vowel which fall-

eth in the place of the star, which is first in order, the same vowel is attributed

to the first letter. Then afterwards thou shalt finde the part of the second let-

ter, by subtracting the degree of a star which is the second in order from the

first star; and that which remaineth, cast from the ascendant. And this is the

part from which thou shalt begin the calculation of the vowels; and that

vowel which falleth upon the second star, the same is the vowel of the second

letter. And so consequently maist thou search out the vowels of the following

letters alwaies, by substracting the degree of the following star; from the

degree of the star next preceding and going before. And so also all calcula-

tions and numerations in the names of the good spirits, ought to be made

according to the succession of the signes. And in calculating the names of the

evil spirits, where in the names of the good spirits is taken the degree of the

eleventh House, in these ought to be taken the degree of the twelfth House.

And all numerations and calculations may be made with the succession of the

signes, by taking the beginning from the degree of the tenth House.

But in all extractions by tables, the vowels are placed after another maner.

In the first place therefore is taken the certain number of letters making the

name itself, and is thus numbred from the beginning of the columne of the

first letter, or whereupon the name is extracted; and the letter on which this

number falleth, is referred to the first letter of the name, extracted by taking

the distance of the one from the other, according to the order of the Alpha-

bet. But the number of that distance is projected from the beginning of his

columne; and where it endeth, there is part of the first vowel: from thence

therefore thou shalt calculate the vowels themselves, in their own number and

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