Quotes:Agrippa von Nettesheim, Henry Cornelius

Zirkoff, Boris

Agrippa von Nettesheim, Henry Cornelius (1486-1535). German writer, soldier, physician and magician. For many years in the service of Maximilian I, the German King who sent him, 1510, on a diplomatic mission to England. From 1511 to 1518, he was in Italy in the service of William VI of Monferrato and of Charles III of Savoy. His early interest in the occult sciences brought him into open conflict with the Church at Dole, Pavia and Metz. He practiced medicine in Cologne, Geneva, Freiburg and Lyon for short periods, until Margaret, Duchess of Savoy and regent of the Netherlands, appointed him archivist and historiographer to the Emperor. Eventually he went to France where he was arrested for some disparaging words about the queen-mother, but was soon released. He was married three times and had a large family. Agrippa's famous De occulta philosophia, which brought him into antagonism with the Inquisition, was written about 1510, partly under the influence of the author's friend, John Trithemius, then abbot of Wurzburg, but its publication was delayed until 1531, when it appeared at Antwerp (also Lugduni: Fratres Beringo, 1533. 3 vols.). His other principal work is De incertitudine et vanitate scientiarum, etc. (Antwerp, 1531), wherein he denounces the accretions of theological Christianity. He also wrote De nobilitate et praecellentia feminei sexus (Coloniae, 1532). An edition of his works was published at Leyden in 1550, with several later editions.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 1, p. 443-444

Agrippa of Netesheim, Heinrich Cornelius (14867-1535). *De occulta philosophic. libri tres, Beringo Fratres, Lugduni, 1533.—Three Books of Occult Philosophy. Transl. by J. F., London, 1650.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 3, p. 495

Agrippa von Nettesheim, Henry Cornelius (1486-1535). *De occulta philosophia. A work written in 1510, partly under the influence of his friend, John Trithemius, but which was not published until 1531, when Vol. I appeared at Antwerp. The first edition of all the three volumes is that of the Fratres Beringo, Lugduni (Lyon), 1533. A fourth and spurious volume has been circulated later.

The passages used by H.P.B. are, however, from Henry Morley’s work entitled *The Life of Henry Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, Doctor and Knight, Commonly known as a Magician. London: Chapman and Hall, 1856, 2 vols.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 4, p. 619

Agrippa of Nettesheim, Heinrich Cornelius (1486?-1535). *De occulta philosophia libri tres, Beringo Fratres, Lugduni, 1533.— Three Books of Occult Philosophy. Transl. by J.F., London, 1650.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 7, p. 355