De Occulta Philsophia

in German, by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, 1624

One of Agrippa's three great works on ritual magic, this rare early edition is a study and survey of Christian philosophy, magic, and occultism in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Agrippa sought to synthisize Hebrew Kabbalism, Egyptian ritual magic, and Greek philosophy into a cohesive mystic tradition. His work became the foundation of Western magical thought. The volume in the Miskatonic University Library was part of the Orne Bequest of 1765. (Johnson, Sam, and Sandy Antunes. "Miskatonic University: A Handbook to the Pride of Arkham." Chaosium, Oct. 2005.)