/lit/ - Literature

You're going to read my books right anon? Even though one I didn't write but is credited to me anyway?

>Agrippa's academic career began in 1509, receiving the patronage Margaret of Austria, governor of Franche-Comté, and Antoine de Vergy, archbishop of Besançon and chancellor of the University of Dole. He was given the opportunity to lecture a course at the University on Hebrew scholar Johann Reuchlin's De verbo mirifico. At Dôle, Agrippa wrote De nobilitate et praecellentia foeminae sexus (On the Nobility and Excellence of the Feminine Sex), a work that aimed at proving the superiority of women using cabalistic ideas. The book was probably intended to impress Margaret. Agrippa’s lectures received attention, and he was given a doctorate in theology because of them. He was, however, denounced by the Franciscan prior Jean Catilinet as a "Judaizing heretic", and was forced to leave Dôle in 1510.
Kek, what an absolute simp. Based Catilinet BTFOing him.
De incertitudine et vanitate scientiarum et artium atque excellentia verbi Dei declamatio invectiva was a comfy read though.

I have now read 100 pages of his most prominent work 'De occulta philosophia libri tres'.

I can now deduce that one should not bother with magic. Anything I have read so far was a perversion of neoplatonism. The transmutation of gold, sending messages over moonbeams und other things that are clearly false.
The source of magic is the Weltseele, a metaphysical concept closely related to the Platonic 'World of Ideas' which emanetes the magical qualities. For example the qualities of a magnet.

In conclusion: There is no wisdom to be found in old magic tomes.

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I dived into the esotericist/occultist rabbit hole. XVI-XVIIth century Europe was far stranger than most people think