Agrippa's Sense of Faith in Magic

The most philosophically intriguing interpretation would have agrippa being sceptical about the rational sciences, including magic. Agrippa consistently presents good magic as a thoroughly christian enterprise and opposes it to merely natural sorcery. He even says that we have certainty only through faith, and that only god is truthful, whereas all humans are liars. We're not done with the occult sciences in this period. For one thing, we still need to talk about paracelsus, a contemporary of agrippa's who was a key figure in the history of alchemy and early modern science.