Heinrich
Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim
De
occulta philosophia
Agrippa
wrote in his De
occulta philosophia how
the mind could be joined with the celestial intelligence which then enabled the
possibility to positively influence inferior beings.
This
thought came from the Arabian philosophers who realised that this state could be achieved
by being most intently focused with great passion on a work. Consequently, our work will
be infused with celestial knowledge and power. And because the celestial power has power
over all things, your work will affect all that come into contact with it.
So
if you write of love, you will pass this love on to those who read it and will then love
themselves, but beware, should you write of hate and destruction, you might unleash it.
Your mind impregnated by the celestial intelligence will weave its power into words,
figures and symbols that stir the souls of the people and infect them with their meanings.
Many a man can become the vessel of celestial intelligence, by opening themselves to being
dictated the knowledge to be passed on. The superior can bind to him the inferior or
change it, convert it or hindered it. The superior can bind the inferior into admiration
and obedience, to servitude and infirmities, to quietness and sadness, to worship, to fear
and discord, to love and joy, to persuasion and obsequiousness.
On
the art of fascination
Fascination
is the binding between the witch and the person that is bewitched from the spirit of the
witch through the eyes to the heart of the bewitched. With ray sent forth from the eyes
the bewitched gets infected by the corrupt spirit of the witch.
Beware
the witch that looks at you and sends the beams of the eyes like darts, so their spirit
can enter you, wounding your heart and infecting your spirit. Know that two pairs of eyes
intent on each other can bewitch when the rays are joined, because that is when the two
spirits join and the stronger will prevail over the weaker.
Strong
bindings are made in this way, and even love can be inflamed through the rays of the eyes,
like 
darts
penetrating the whole body.
The
fascination is strongest the more subservient the person to be bewitched.
So
women by certain strong imaginations, dreams, and suggestions brought in by certain
Magicall Arts do oftentimes bind them into a strong loving of any one.
So
they say that Medea only by a dream, burnt in love towards Jason.
Book
3, Chapter 65
This
is the collection of the knowledge of the ancients.
But
beware, the words are not for all to understand,
much
is hidden and concealed, but the wise will succeed in their search.
Contemplate
the words that are written, search for their true revelation of the mystery of the secrets
hidden from the non-believers and the wicked, condemning them to ignorance and the
desperation of the simple life.
But
for you, sons of learning and of wisdom, all is there in these pages.
Not
in order, but like a puzzle every piece is within, waiting for you to be assembled.
What
we hint at in one place is revealed in another for you to be found.
For
you of faith and of a noble mind, free of the wickedness of this world, the knowledge is
preserved.
The
secret of the Enigmaes can only be obtained by a profound intellect and you will know the
science of the invincible and invisible, it will appear and insinuate itself into you,
just as it did to Hermes, Zoroaster and Apollonius in times past and they did many
miracles.
But
to the fool and the ignorant, nothing comes from these words that will blind the foolish,
who are destined for the misery of this world.
Their
disbelief will condemn them, the dullness of their intellect will be their barrier.
And
beware, this is obscure knowledge that will lead many astray and cause them to lose their
senses.
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There
exists a white and a black choler.
The
black choler eats the body and attracts evil spirits into it.
A
white choler is a melancholy humour.
Melancholy
men more easily receive celestial messages.
And
sometimes they draw celestial spirits into the body,
who
feed the mind. And the mind gains an understanding of heavenly things, of the law of the
world, of divine things and of angels, of things eternal and how to save souls.
Aristotles,
Democritus and Plato knew that poets were stirred by the white choler, that this was their
payment for contact with the divine. The white choler increases their wits and all those
who excel in a science know melancholy.
When
the white choler is stirred
up, it burns and leads to a madness that is conducive to knowledge and divination.
But
do not be afraid, every man has a pure spirit that helps him in his daily strivings, that
guards him and keeps the evil spirits at bay and so reduces the harm they may to do us.
That spirit is our keeper who urges us to do good, that turns our being into the enemy of
evil. But it is up to man to whom he will obey; the temptation of the evil spirit with its
promises to fulfil all man’s desires and become the servant of the devil or to follow
the pure spirit. We all have a diabolical spirit that haunts us, that seeks union with
ourselves and when this union is achieved it stirs us to evil doings, but if we seek union
with the pure spirit, we rise like angels.