Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature

Cornelius Agrippa’s work La Philosophie Occulte was one of the most widely read and respected books on the magical arts.

During his university days, Victor Frankenstein apprentices himself to Professor Waldheim, who praises both Agrippa and Paracelsus as “men whose indefatigable zeal provided the foundation of modern knowledge.”

A physician and alchemist, Paracelsus established the role of chemistry in medicine.

In this text, Cornelius Agrippa combined Christian theology with the cabala, an occult religious strain of Judaism.