Medicine, Magic and Art in Early Modern Norway by Ane Ohrvik

Author:Ane Ohrvik
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK, London

A summary of Cyprian and the Jewish Cabal together with Necromancy , Demonology and Göetien. Comprising Mathematical, Chemical, Experi- mental Physical Art and Sciences. a/ summary of ceremonial magic and Theur-gy; contains what is now present: the Black Book Was first found at the Wittenberg Academy in the year 1529. in A Marble Chest written on Parchment.16

These branches of knowledge all point to the theoretical and practical fields of natural philosophy which developed in Europe during the Renaissance. The fields of natural knowledge listed here, all of which emphasised natural phenomena, the forces controlling natural change and natural objects, constitute the ‘shopping list’ of intellectual magic promoted by learned magi, and this resulted in numerous publications in both Latin and vernacular languages. The author of one of the most popular books on intellectual magic during the 1500s, Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, sums up in De Occulta Philosophia Libri Tres published between 1531–1533 what he saw as the qualities of magical knowledge:

Magic is a faculty of wonderful virtue, full of most high mysteries, containing the most profound contemplation of most secret things, together with the nature, power, quality, substance and virtues thereof, as also the knowledge of whole nature, and it doth instruct us concerning the differing, and agreement of things amongst themselves, whence it produceth its wonderful effects, by uniting the virtues of things through the application of them one to the other, and to their inferior suitable subjects, joining and knitting them together thoroughly by the powers, and virtues of the superior bodies. This is the most perfect, and chief science , that sacred, and sublimer kind of philosophy, and lastly the most absolute perfection of all most excellent philosophy.17

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