Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
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Oct 7, 2026
Justin SledgeHOST
Of course, Erasmus is himself poking fun at what he took to be the abuses of the credulous superstitions of his day.
Justin SledgeHOST
Now, for his part, he actually took the occult pretty seriously and even corresponded briefly with Cornelius Agrippa, recommending one of his students to be connected with Agrippa.
Justin SledgeHOST
and to be sure there were definitely catholic critiques of not only these superstitions but also the chaotic illicit and often heretical even abusive nature of exorcisms of their day but partisans took such mockery as just endemic of catholicism more generally and partisan theologians such as benedict marty or auretius noted that jesus himself never used any elaborate rites and rituals Rather than just simple commands and faith alone were sufficient for Jesus' exorcisms.
Justin SledgeHOST
Good enough for JC.
Mark GagnonHOST
Yeah.
Justin SledgeGUEST
And I, I feel like even if I don't agree to the answers that someone like Cornelius Agrippa or John Dee or Giordano Bruno, even if I don't a- agree with the answers that they come to, the fact that they were on that quest their whole lives inspires me and I, I, I wanna be on that quest, even if I can't share with them that we come to the same conclusions.
Justin SledgeGUEST
And I find that they motivate me to, to be on that quest.
Mark GagnonHOST
Yeah.
49 MINS LATER
Justin SledgeGUEST
You know, you get a bunch of people together, just make really complex, stupid decisions.
Justin SledgeGUEST
It's so much of what I find in history when I, we discover some of these books.
Justin SledgeGUEST
Um, you know, again, I think about the Three Books of Occult Philosophy by Cornelius Agrippa.
Justin SledgeGUEST
The Inquisition did try to kick the doors in and, and stop the printing of the book, and they did temporarily.
speaker_2HOST
Victor grows up in Geneva, right? He's the deeply privileged, adored son of a wealthy family.
speaker_2HOST
He becomes obsessed with natural philosophy early on, but initially he's reading ancient alchemists like Cornelius Agrippa and Paracelsus.
speaker_1HOST
And alchemy promised magic, essentially.
speaker_2HOST
The philosopher's stone, the elixir of life, the ability to banish disease and conquer death entirely.
Mike BrownHOST
One woman claimed that after receiving communion from him and meeting his gaze, she was suddenly overcome with sexual desire.
Mike BrownHOST
Another witness said he had seen Grandier reading the works of Cornelius Agrippa, a 16th-century writer on occult philosophy and magic.
Mike BrownHOST
Neither proved witchcraft, but both were included as evidence.
Mike BrownHOST
The second kind of evidence came from Grandier's own body.
Jay DyerHOST
But, you know, yeah, in my 20s, I was very interested.
Jay DyerHOST
Oh, let me figure out everything that Cornelius Agrippa says in his esoteric philosophy.
speaker_3UNKNOWN
And I know all the mysteries.
speaker_3UNKNOWN
And
Oren Ben-YosefGUEST
But in his book, he is very mad at a different thinker, John Ware.
Oren Ben-YosefGUEST
John Ware, who is the important guy in this conversation for me, is a student of the magician Agrippa, Cornelius Agrippa.
Oren Ben-YosefGUEST
He's a physician, and he writes in defense of witches.
Oren Ben-YosefGUEST
And we have to remember the times and how women were guarded in this time.
Justin SledgeHOST
This milieu would eventually produce the famous Abbot of Spondheim, Trithemius, one of the true experts of the occult in the 15th century, as it gave way to the 16th, and indeed his Abbey Library would be one of the most substantial, if not the most substantial occult libraries in all of Europe.
Justin SledgeHOST
And, of course, the University of Cologne would produce none other than Heinrichus Cornelius Agrippa, the author of the famous and decisive Three Books of Occult Philosophy, along with many other Hermetic volumes.
Justin SledgeHOST
And that would produce a world that would remember fondly both the historical Albert, but also his focus on the magic of the mythical Albert, we might say.
Justin SledgeHOST
The magical Albert.
Idiot MysticHOST
This is where he brings in Francis Barrett's The Magus, published in London in 1801.
Idiot MysticHOST
It's basically this giant occult compilation, drawing heavily from earlier ceremonial magic, astrology, Kabbalah, talismanic practice, and writers like Cornelius Agrippa.
Idiot MysticHOST
Ceremonial magic, in very plain English, which is I guess the only kind of English I can speak, is the idea that contact with spiritual powers can be deliberately structured.
Idiot MysticHOST
You prepare yourself, you choose the right time, you use particular words, symbols, names, tools, gestures, perfumes, whatever the system requires.
Sumit WaghmareNARRATOR
End of Tradition and Individual Talent by T.S. Eliot The essay was read by Sumit Waghbhari
speaker_22NARRATOR
Excerpt from The Vanity of Arts and Sciences by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettelshime, 1486-1535.
speaker_22NARRATOR
This is a LibriVox recording.
speaker_22NARRATOR
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speaker_22NARRATOR
For how great a boldness is it What an arrogant presumption to prefer the schools of philosophers before the Church of Christ, and to extol or equal the opinions of men to the word of God! Lastly, how impious a piece of tyranny is it to captivate the wits of students to prefixed authors, and to deprive their disciples of the liberty of searching after and following the truth! All which things being so manifest that they cannot be denied, I may be the more easily pardoned if I seem to have more freely and bitterly inveighed against some sorts of sciences and their professors.
speaker_22NARRATOR
Farewell.
speaker_22NARRATOR
End of Letter to the Reader from The Vanity of Arts and Sciences by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, 1486-1535.
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Ashley RyanGUEST
The magical aspects of this.
Ashley RyanGUEST
I look towards like the 16th century Renaissance revival occultism period where we see people like Cornelius Agrippa.
Ashley RyanGUEST
And so I take a lot of Agrippa's work and create it in my own spirit summoning.
Ashley RyanGUEST
And so summoning, I can summon the different planetary energies.
HanaHOST
And then they sort of go back a little bit and, you know, maybe then they go that little bit back further and then we find ourselves back in ancient Greece and, you know, Egypt and all of these places that informed what astrology is today and, you know, Hellenistic astrology from back in ancient Greece.
HanaHOST
ancient Greece and it's just really interesting a lot of those texts often coincide or inform each other or talk to each other in in interesting ways so it's fun and fascinating when you can get the hands on on some of the older older books and get through them as well because
Ashley RyanGUEST
yeah totally yeah it's heavy and and thankfully there's a lot of really good books now that like make it easy like the Cornelius Agrippa book like yeah it's still it's still massive and it's still heavy but it's like at least reader friendly.
Ashley RyanGUEST
The other thing was I practiced Solomonic magic.
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