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{{Style P-HPB SB. Title continued|Henry Cornelius Agrippa|1-100}}
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grapher to the Emperor Charles V. Henry VIII. of England and Margaret of Austria competed for the favor of his attachment to their respective courts. At the age of twenty, so great was his reputation as an alchemist, that the principal adept of Paris wrote to Cologne to invite him to settle in France, and aid them with his experience in discovering the philosopher's stone. (See Mackay's “Popular Delusions"). Although he was believed to have the secret of the transmutation of metals, he lived and died in poverty, as all true adepts of Occultism have before and since his time.
The stories which are told of his power to evoke spirits are most wonderful, {{Style S-HPB SB. HPB crossed out|and Mr. Peebles quotes one of these (from}} {{Style S-HPB SB. HPB note|See}} Goodwin’s “Lives of the Necromancers”{{Style S-HPB SB. HPB crossed out|), in his “Seers of the Ages ;” although he omits to give}} {{Style S-HPB SB. HPB note|where {{Style S-HPB SB. Lost|are}} find}} the name of the Earl of Surrey, at whose request he called up the shade of Tully, upon the occasion noted, and made it repeat his celebrated oration for Rocius.
For Sir Thomas More, Agrippa caused to appear in a dream the whole destruction of Troy; to Thomas Lord Cromwel he exhibited in a magic mirror King Henry VIII. and all his lords hunting in Windsor Forest; to Charles V. he showed a number of historical personages of a former age, whom the Emperor wished to see. Mackay tells as that according to his contemporaries: “He could turn iron into gold by his mere word. All the spirits of the air and demons of the earth are under his command, and bound to obey, him in everything- He could raise from the dead the forms of the great men of other days, and make them appear in their habit as they lived, to the gaze of the curious who had courage enough to abide their presence."
In the Retrospective Review (Vol. XIV., for 1826), we find an article reviewing his work on “The Vanitie and Uncertaintie of Arts and Sciences," in which is included a list of his works as follows: “A Treatise on the Excellency of Women,” 1529; “A Sketch of the History of the Government of Charles V.;” and “On the Vanities of the Sciences,” in 1530; “On Occult Philosophy,” in 1530; “A Commentary on the Arts of Raymund Lullius”—another highly celebrated occultist, who was born in Majorica, A. D. 1235—; “A Dissertation on Original Sin;” An Essay on Marriage;” and several books of letters to various persons.
In concluding his very lengthy and expansive article, the writer of the Retrospective Review says that every chapter of the volume in hand “is a storehouse of knowledge, collected, not as in our degenerated days, from sources provided by a profusion of works of reference, but sought out by persevering labor from mines of literary lore, in ins time rare, expensive, and difficult of access.” “In a word,” says he, “we close the volume with the highest respect for our friend Cornelius, who notwithstanding many faults of style and paradoxical views, has produced a work replete with deep knowledge of the world and human nature.”
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