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HoP 386 - Perhaps Not Wrong - Cornelius Agrippa

History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

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Agrippa's Declamation a Gene

In his own occult philosophy, he has plenty to say about such summonings. He even comments that evil women are apt to consort with demons. Agrippa also refers to the possibility of an alchemist's making a philosopher's stone. But he keeps his description so vague that only adepts of the alchemical art will know what he is talking about. Despite agrippa's denunciation of astrology, he still felt that there might be something to it and that if one were to practise it, one must follow its rules faithfully. Then he wrote on uncertainty, which, despite its rash rhetoric, leaves open the possibility that magic does sometimes work. It rails against practitioners of t

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