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{{Style P-HPB SB. Title continued|Henry Cornelius Agrippa|1-100}}
{{Style P-HPB SB. Title continued|Henry Cornelius Agrippa|1-100}}
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.
{{Style P-No indent|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.
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.