Occulta
Originally the term meant "hidden things," or was associated with secret ceremonies of the mystery cults which taught their own esoteric secrets of salvation. Originally the teachings of early Christianity were considered occulta.
Occulta etiam maxima ex parte etiam sapientibus vinculorum est ratio; quid enim magni est referre rationem analogiae, similitudinis, congeneitatis et id genus vocum sine sensu, quando hominem videmus nihil odisse magis quam alterum hominem, ...
Agrippa in his De Occulta Philosophia also devotes some space to this number, stating in conclus ion that it is connected with trial, experience, gaining the state of purity and readiness for a new life.
In De occulta philosophia, one of the most influential source texts for Renaissance magicians like Dee, Agrippa defines three different types of magic, "Naturall, Mathematicall and Theologicall.
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa w/images: De occulta philosophia
Agrippa: de occulta philosophia (text)
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Agrippa's best-known work, De Occulta Philosophia (Occult Philosophy) was published in three volumes in 1531 but had been written much earlier, in 1510, possibly during a visit to England.
It was published in the Libri Tres de Occulta Philosophia by Henricus Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, well over a century and a half before the Valladolid frontispiece was penned. Yet Agrippa was not the source of this second emblem.
106. And these are the Passions of the World, Revolutions and Occultations, and Revolution is a turning, but Occultation is Renovation.
107. And the World being all formed, hath not the forms lying without it, but itself changeth in itself.
Agrippa, H. C. 1531. De occulta philosophia libri tres. (reprinted as Three books of occult philosophy or magic, Kessinger Publishing, Kila, Montana).
Allen, D. C. 1973. The star-crossed Renaissance. Octagon, NY.
" Similar figures are to be found in Agrippa's De Occulta Philosophia. Like Cesariano's diagrams, however, the key given for their interpretation is most inadequate.
Probably spurious. Appended to Henrici Cor. Agrippae ab Nettesheym, de occulta philosophia libri III, Parisiis. Ex offincina Iacobi Dupuys. 1567. English translation in Francis Barrett's The Magus, p. 135bis.
words of power, and in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, western Kabbalists augmented the Kabbalah with aspects of Christian theology and alchemy. The Kabbalah was included in Agrippa von Nettesheim's (1486-1535) key work, De Occulta ...
 See also: Occult, Philo, Magic, Spirit, Christ
  
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