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Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim (/ ə ˈ ɡ r ɪ p ə /; German:; 14 September 1486 – 18 February 1535) was a German Renaissance polymath, physician, legal scholar, soldier, knight, theologian, and occult writer. Agrippa's Three Books of Occult Philosophy published in 1533 drew heavily upon Kabbalah, Hermeticism, and Neoplatonism.
The text survives to this day and draws heavily from Ficino, Pliny the Elder and Pico Della Mirandola, among other works well-known to scholars of the Renaissance. [ 2 ] In 1526-27, Agrippa published a satirical-critical work called De Incertitudine Et Vanitate Scientiarum Liber, in which he seemingly retracted his Three Books, apparently ...
Historians of the Crusades are generally of two types. The first are the authors of works, the original sources, that were done contemporaneously with the historical events. The later works from the early modern period, written in the 16th century through the 19th century, are the subject of this article and include a variety of subjects including:
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, German alchemist, writer Sergei Prokofiev: The Fiery Angel (as Agrippa of Nettesheim) Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, Roman statesman and general Samuel Barber: Antony and Cleopatra; Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus, Roman consul (32 BC) Samuel Barber: Antony and Cleopatra (as Enobarbus) Pharaoh Akhenaten of Egypt Philip Glass ...
The Celestial Alphabet, also known as Angelic Script, is a set of characters described by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa in the sixteenth century. It is not to be confused with John Dee and Edward Kelley's Enochian alphabet, which is also sometimes called the Celestial alphabet.
The Notory Art, which the Almighty Creator Revealed to Solomon (Ars Notoria, quam Creator Altissimus Salomoni revelavit) is a 17th-century Latin derivative and composite text compiled by an unknown scribe and first published in the Collected Works (Opera Omnia; c. 1620), vol. 2 (pages 603–660) of Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim.
Khunrath's work was important in Lutheran circles. John Warwick Montgomery has pointed out that Johann Arndt (1555–1621), who was the influential writer of Lutheran books of pietiesm and devotion, composed a commentary on Amphitheatrum. Some of the ideas in his works are Kabbalistic in nature and foreshadow Rosicrucianism.
Passing of the River script, described by Agrippa in Of Occult Philosophy, English edition. Transitus Fluvii ("passing through the river" in Latin) or Passage Du Fleuve (in French) is an occult alphabet consisting of 22 characters described by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa in his Third Book of Occult Philosophy (Cologne, 1533, but written around 1510).