Doğanın Hizmetkârı Olarak Büyü: Agrippa'nın Doğal Büyü Üzerine Sözleri

Natural Magic, therefore, is that which, having contemplated the powers of all natural and celestial things, and having examined their sympathy with curious investigation, thus brings into the open the hidden and latent powers in nature: by coupling the inferior things to the gifts of the superior, as if they were certain lures, through their mutual application to one another, so that from this, stupendous miracles often arise, not so much by art as by nature, to which this art exhibits itself as a servant while it operates. For magicians, as the most accurate explorers of nature, by conducting those things which have been prepared by nature, applying the active to the passive, very often produce the effect before the time ordained by nature. These the common people think are miracles, when nevertheless they are natural works, with only the prevention of time intervening: as if someone were to produce roses in the month of March, or ripe grapes, or make sown beans or parsley grow into a perfect plant within a few hours.