Agrippa - De Occvlta Philosophia. Vol. II - Celestial Magic

ranslated and introduced by Paul Summers Young Cover Design by Alice Winkler Second Edition   Then rise to your feet and turn around your circle, from east to west, until your head spins and you fall to the ground and be still; like that, you will be enraptured, and the spirit you seek will appear and tell you all you want to know.Volume Four of our Agrippa collection comprises new translations of two texts closely related to the Three Books of Occult Philosophy.   The first is the 1565 Liber Quartus de Occulta Philosophia, which is a Pseudo-Agrippan gloss on some of Agrippa’s themes, which was published with a version of Pietro D’Abano’s Heptameron, which served as a gloss upon the gloss. This apocryphal work went on to lead an interesting and influential afterlife, accompanying the Three Books like an ugly rumour.  The second is an expanded selection from De Incertitudine et Vanitate Scientarum of c.1530. The 1533 first edition of the Three Books concludes with extracts from The Unc