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Cornelius Agrippa AKA Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, Knight Germany 1486 - 1535 Teachers: Paracelsus; Johannes Trithemius aka Abbot Trithemius of Sponheim, friend and mentor; Julius Sperber; Johann Reuchlin (author of De verbo mirifico, 1494); John Colet; Marsilio Ficino; Giovanni Pico della Mirandola; his nephew Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola; Raymond Lull; Albertus Magnus; influenced by Pliny the Elder; Plato; Aristotle; Plotinus; Porphyry; Iamblichus; Proclus; Pythagoras; Diogenes the Cynic; Zoroaster ; Democritus; Hermes Trismegistus; Arnoldus de Villa Nova aka Arnold of Villanova; Pietro d'Abano; Alkindi; Ibn Sina Avicenna; Roger Bacon; Ludovico Lazzarelli ; Agostino Ricci; Paolo Ricci; Francesco Giorgio (or Zorzi) of Venice; Nicholas of Cusa; Pietro d'Abano; Albertus Magnus; psudo - Albertus Magnus author of Liber de mirabilibus mundi; al-Majriti aka al-Madjriti, author of the Picatrix (aka The Aim of the Sage) ; Alphonso the Wise, King of Castille;

Students: Francis Barrett; Eliphas Levi; Johann Weyer AKA in Dutch Jan/Johan/Johannes Wier, AKA in Latin Ioannes Wierus and AKA Piscinarius; Ercole Quadrelli; Michael Hillenius; Vittoria Perrone Compagni; Willy Schrodter; Donald Tyson; Robert Fludd; Johannes Theodorus de Bry, illustrator; Johann Baptista Großchedel; Simon Forman; Richard Napier; Elias Ashmole ; William Lilly ; Hellmut Ritter; Martin Plessner; John French; William De Laurence, who created a 'Hindoo' part by replacing certain of the Hebrew names with pseudo-Sanskrit; Gregory Moule ; Willis F. Whitehead; Dr. Robert Childe, Doctor of Physick; Eric Purdue; Christopher Warnock; Albert Rabil Jr.; Stephen Skinner; Robert Turner; John Michael Greer; Frederick W. Shipley; Daniel R. Schwartz; Richard Popkin; Charles Garfield Nauer; Willy Schrodter; M. G. M. Van Der Poel ; Marc Van Der Poel; Christopher I. Lehrich ; I. Lehrich; Joseph H. Peterson; Henry Morley; Frederick Morgan; V. Perrone Compagni; Maggie Mack; Gustav Davidson, author of A Dictionary of Angels: Including the Fallen Angels; Michelle Belanger, author of The Dictionary of Demons: Names of the Damned; Lewis Spence; Henry Morley; Rudolf Steiner;

Friends: Louise of Savoy; Marguerite of Alençon ; Hermann von Wied; Johannes Soter; Erasmus; Enemies: Sisto da Siena ; Dominican inquisitors; Francis I of Lyons; Organizations: Author:Occult Philosophy, De occulta philosophia libri tres, including Natural Magic, Celestial Magic, Ceremonial Magic; Female Pre-eminence -- Declamatio de nobilitate et precellentia Foeminei sexus, 1529; De incertitudine et vanitate scientiarum et artium, atque excellentia Verbi Dei, declamatio invectiva / On the Uncertainty and Vanity of the Arts and Sciences: An Invective Declamation, 1530; Dialogus de homine; De triplici ratione cognoscendi Deum; De beatissimae Annae monogamia; De vanitate; Querela ; Apologia ; Fourth Book of Occult Philosophy; translates Arbatel De magia veterum (Arbatel: Of the Magic of the Ancients) (see http://www.esotericarchives.com/solomon/arbatel.htm); translated the Heptameron of Pietro d'Abano; The Ladies Oracle (Geomancy) AKA Of Geomancy; Ars Brevis of Raymundus Lully aka Raymond Lull; Comments: Magician ;Rosicrucian; Alchemy; Qabalist; Ceremonial Magick; "Christianized Cabalism of the pioneering German Hebraist Johann Reuchlin, whose De verbo mirifico (1494) was nearly the only source of knowledge about Jewish Cabalism available to Agrippa in 1510" *; Female Pre-eminence is perhaps the 1st "feminist" or Females are Human Too book in Europe, 1529;

References:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Cornelius_Agrippa; http://www.esotericarchives.com/agrippa/index.html, his writings; *http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/agrippa-nettesheim/ or read him here - http://darkbooks.org/collection/Henry-Cornelius-Agrippa.html ;