Tag: Heinrich Agrippa

• Shelves of Ancient Secrets

  Wormwoodiana presents an article that first appeared in Book-Lore in May 1887, which proves that nothing much changes in the world of book collecting: Lord Lytton, in that curious and mysterious novel, Zanoni, mentions an old bookseller who, after years of toil, had succeeded in forming an almost perfect library of works on occult philosophy: ” A purchaser was indeed a…

  Bill Ectric

  July 29, 2012

  Barrett’s Magus, book stores, Book-Lore, bookstores, Fludd, Heinrich Agrippa, Latin, Lord Lytton, occult, Simon Magus, witch of endore, Wormwoodiana, Zanoni

• Less Electricity, More Elixir of Life!

  All the many Frankenstein movies had left me with the bogus memory that lightning and electrical equipment figured prominently in Mary Shelley’s book. When I recently read Frankenstein again after many years, it surprised me to discover that Shelley barely mentions electricity at all. Victor Frankenstein is vague about the procedure, telling the sea captain…

  Bill Ectric

  February 9, 2012

  Albertus Magnus, Alchemy, Arab philosophy, book study, D. L. McDonald, frankenstein, Heinrich Agrippa, IEEE, Kathleen Scherf, Mary Shelley, Paracelsus