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(1486-1533) Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa lead a very controversial life. His written text De Occulta Philosophia which is a 3 book gospel on Ficinian Spiritual Magic, Trithemian Demonic magic and Practical magic. His work has been shamelessly plagarised through out the years by many writters and it is still seen as the first choice manual for any student looking at magick or its history. He was born in Cologne on the 16th of the 9th 1486. He attended the Faculty of Arts at Cologne where he became the secretary to Maximilian the 1st who had recently become the emperor of Rome, He lectured in the university of Dole on De verbo milifico, later he returned to lecture at the Univerisy of Cologne. Later Agrippa then began to travel Europe to Rome, Italy and France. When a Johannes Trithemius who had been Agrippa's teacher, died, Agrippa received all his documents pertaining to his magic. To sum it all up Agrippa lead a life of great acheivements, small bouts of poverty, exile, fame, accusations and prosecution. Through out his life he acedemically studies in Astronomy, Numerology, Kabbala, Law, Physics and obtained knowledge in almost all arts and sciences which include alchemy.
He had finished the manuscript to his De Occulta Pilosophia when he was only 23 years old. This book gave its readers a different view to magick than that provided by the Malleus Maleficarium that was published 24 years earlier. This book provided false information about magick, how to find it, and its connections to the devil. He was charged with Heresy and banished from Bonn. On his way to Lyon he was lost and not seen after that time.
His founders include Maximilian the first, Margret of Austria and Charles the fifth. |
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