Liber XXII · Occultism
Chapter VII
Occult Philosophy
7 min readAthanasius Kircher: Hieroglyphs, Magnetism and Occult LearningAthanasius Kircher (1602–1680), the Jesuit polymath of Rome whose Oedipus Aegyptiacus, magnetic cosmos and Mundus subterraneus shaped later occultism.7 min readOccult Philosophy: Ficino, Pico, Agrippa and the Magical CosmosOccult philosophy from Ficino and Pico to Agrippa, Paracelsus, Bruno, Dee and Fludd: the Renaissance vision of a living, magical cosmos and its modern study.8 min readPietro Pomponazzi's De incantationibus: Marvels Without DemonsPietro Pomponazzi's De incantationibus (1520) explained marvels, cures and charms by nature, imagination and the stars rather than by demons or angels.