Agrippa’s Three Books of Occult Philosophy
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Agrippa Translated the Names of Stones Correctly
A large part of your translation is that you've actually studied a renaissance in mediaeval astro logy. Yo're very familiar with the technical terminology. And therefore, when you go through this text and agrippa starts throwing outTechnical terminology that he hasn't defined,. He's taking for granted that you already understand many of those concepts. A things like the names of stones are sometimes a suspect of j had a habit of translating a lot of stones as a jet stone. There's one where it's supposed to be a ruby, and he translates his jet a. Also, some place where there's an incense recipe, andr, it's an obscure word in latin,
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