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==Content and sources==
==Content and sources==
The book is an edited volume of older works collected by Barrett from [[grimoire]]s, as he hints in the preface: "We have collected out of the works of the most famous magicians, such as Zoroaster, Hermes, Apollonius, Simon of the Temple, Trithemius, Agrippa, Porta (the Neapolitan), Dee, Paracelsus, Roger Bacon, and a great many others..."
The book is an edited volume of older works collected by Barrett from [[grimoire]]s, as he hints in the preface: "We have collected out of the works of the most famous magicians, such as Zoroaster, Hermes, Apollonius, Simon of the Temple, Trithemius, [[Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa]], Porta (the Neapolitan), [[John Dee]], [[Paracelsus]], Roger Bacon, and a great many others..."


Most of the material comes from Agrippa's ''[[Three Books of Occult Philosophy]]'' and Pietro d'Abano's ''[[Heptameron]]''.
Most of the material comes from Agrippa's ''[[Three Books of Occult Philosophy]]'' and Pietro d'Abano's ''[[Heptameron]]''.