A TABLE

OF ALL THE CHAPTERS

contained in this work.

TABLE OF THE FIRST BOOK.

1Decorative drop-cap letter 'Q' within a square frame, featuring intricate floral and foliage patterns.How magicians collect virtuesIn this context, "virtues" refers to the inherent powers, properties, or "talents" of a thing, such as the healing power of a herb or the magnetic pull of a lodestone. from the triple world will be shown in these three books. page 1

2What Magic is, what its parts are, and what sort of person a practitioner of Magic ought to be. 2

3Concerning the four elementsThe classical elements: Fire, Earth, Air, and Water, which were believed to be the building blocks of all physical matter., their qualities, and their mutual mixtures with one another. 5

4Concerning the triple nature of the elements to be considered. 7

5Concerning the marvelous natures of fire and earth. 8

6Concerning the wondrous natures of water, air, and the winds. 11

7Concerning the kinds of compound things, how they relate to the elements, and what the elements themselves have in common with the soul, the senses, and character. 13

8How the elements are in the heavens, in the stars, in demonsoriginal: "demonibus." In the Renaissance sense, these were often viewed as neutral spiritual intermediaries or "daemons," rather than purely evil beings., in angels, and finally in God himself. 20

9Concerning the virtues of natural things depending directly on the elements. 22

10Concerning the occult virtuesoriginal: "uirtutibus rerum occultis." These are "hidden" powers that cannot be explained by the physical qualities of hot, cold, moist, or dry—such as a magnet attracting iron. of things. 23

11How occult virtues are infused into the species of things from the IdeasPlatonic "Ideas" or "Forms"—the perfect, eternal archetypes of all things in the divine mind., through the reasons of the World Souloriginal: "anima mundi." A concept that the entire universe is a living, ensouled being, which allows celestial influences to reach the physical world. and the rays of the stars; and which things abound most in this virtue. 25

12How different virtues are influenced in different individuals, even of the same species. 27

13From where the occult virtues of things originate. 28

14Concerning the Spirit of the Worldoriginal: "spiritu mundi." A subtle, invisible substance (like a "breath") that permeates the universe and acts as a bridge between the physical and spiritual realms., what it is, and that it is the bond of occult virtues. 32

15How we ought to investigate and test the virtues of things through the path of similarity. 34

16In what way the operations of diverse virtues are transferred...