Cornelius agrippa beliefs
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Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
German occult writer (1486–1535)
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim (; German:[aˈgʀɪpa]; 14 September 1486 – 18 February 1535) was a German Renaissancepolymath, physician, legal scholar, soldier, knight, theologian, and occult writer. Agrippa's Three Books of Occult Philosophy published in 1533 drew heavily upon Kabbalah, Hermeticism, and Neoplatonism. His book was widely influential among esotericists of the early modern period, and was condemned as heretical by the inquisitor of Cologne.[1]
Early life and education
Agrippa was born in Nettesheim, near Cologne on 14 September 1486 to a family of middle nobility.[2] Many members of his family had been in the service of the House of Habsburg.[3] Agrippa studied at the University of Cologne from 1499 to 1502, (age 13–16) when he received the degree of magister artium.[2] The University of Cologne was one of the centers of Thomism, and the faculty of arts was split between the dominant Thomists and the Albertists. It is likely that A
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Agrippa, Heinrich Cornelius
also known as Agrippa von Nettesheim
(b. near Cologne, Germany, 14 September 1486; d. Grenoble, France, ca. 18 February 1535)
magic, alchemy, philosophy, medicine.
Agrippa’s father, Heinrich von Nettesheim, was a citizen of Cologne; nothing is known of his mother. Agrippa’s surname and epithet indicate both his birthplace (Cologne was formerly Colonia Agrippina) and the origin of his family (Nettesheim, a village near Cologne); his given names suggest a Dutch or Flemish influence. Agrippa married three times. His first wife, who came from Pavia and was married to him in 1514, died in 1518 in Metz. They had a son, Theodoricus, who was born in 1515 and died in 1522. Six children were born to his second wife, Jeanne Loyse Tissie, whom he married in Geneva in 1521; she died in 1528. A third union, apparently unhappy, took place the following year.
Agrippa enrolled at the University of Cologne on 22 July 1499. While there he studied law, medicine, magic sciences, and theology—particularly under Peter Ravenna. He also served in the army
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Scientist of the Day - Cornelius Agrippa
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, a German authority on natural magic, was born Sep. 14, 1486. Agrippa was heir to a tradition that began with two Florentines, Marsilio Ficino and Pico della Mirandola, who believed that the universe is an intricate network of sympathies and correspondences that connect all things--planets, minerals, animals, organs of the human body, signs of the Zodiac, the 9 orders of angels. The truly wise man, the magus, could perceive these correspondences and manipulate them for good ends; such manipulations of cosmic forces was called natural or white magic. Black magic added the agency of demons and was not the proper domain for a magus. Agrippa considered himself a magus, and he wrote the first full-blown treatise on natural magic, De occulta philosophia libri tres (Three books on occult philosophy), first published in 1533. We have this first edition in our History of Science Collection.
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