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Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, Theodor de Bry, 1645 (National Library of Medicine).
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This paper deals with the "magic" of the Carpocratians, who, according to Irenaeus of Lyon, believed in the Platonic tripartite nature of the soul. The Carpocratian approach to philosophical magic is probably derived from Neoplatonic ideas popular during the first centuries of the Common Era. The Carpocrations, a second-century Christian Gnostic gr...
