Book One · Live · 29 September 2026 Book One · A course on magick · Live class · 29 September – 3 November 2026
Six weeks from now, you’ll be working real magick out of the one book the entire Western tradition was built on. Cornelius Agrippa published Three Books of Occult Philosophy in 1533. Herbs and stones, planets and stars, names and spirits — it’s all in there, and almost everything written since has borrowed from it. Nobody has taught the whole thing until now, because nobody had a translation you could actually work from. We made one. This enrollment is Book One — six weeks, live, starting 29 September: $997 $797 for the founding group. Books Two and Three run as their own classes later; the Complete Agrippa below reserves all three now for less than buying them one at a time.
$997 $797 founding tuition
72 seats total, in pods of 8–12. Founding tuition ends when this opens to the public, so this is the best rate it’s at right now.
Enroll in Book One — founding tuition $797Two ways to pay: in full, or split with Klarna at checkout for US buyers. Tuition rises to $997 once public enrollment opens.
The source everything else copied from
A grimoire is just a spellbook — a manual for working magick. Most grimoires teach one tradition. Agrippa wrote the whole system down at once, in three books, and everything after him is a branch off it. That’s why people call it the grimoire of grimoires. You don’t need to know any of this already. That’s what the six weeks are for.
Herbs, stones, the living world
The magick of physical things — plants, minerals, animals, places, and the hidden virtues Agrippa says run through them. If you’ve ever heard of green witchcraft or folk magic, this is the root it grew from.
This course — live class 29 Sept–3 Nov 2026
Planets, stars, numbers, timing
The magick of the sky — planetary hours, astrological timing, sacred number and geometry, talismans made under the right stars. Every "do this on a Tuesday" instruction you’ve ever read traces back here.
A separate course — class Q1 2027
Names, spirits, rites
The magick of ritual — divine names, angels and intelligences, consecration, and the ceremonies later orders spent centuries elaborating. This is where the Golden Dawn and everything downstream got its shape.
A separate course — class Q2 2027
This isn’t lodge material, and you need no initiation, no order, and no one’s permission to read it. It’s the textbook the lodges were built out of — and for the first time, it’s taught whole.
What you’re enrolling in
Book One — Natural Magic. One course, six weeks.
Books Two and Three are separate courses, sold separately, run in later classes — not included here. See One book. Three courses. above for how they differ.
What actually changes
By week six, you’ve run six real operations with your own hands and watched them work. You open any correspondence table and know exactly where it comes from and why. Someone asks you a question about magick, and the answer is just there — not a half-remembered quote, but something you tested yourself and trust. That’s a different person than the one who started week one.
You’ll have a pod of eight to twelve people who did it with you, so the certainty doesn’t fade the day the course ends. It becomes who you are.
The instruments
Six tools, built into Magick.Me, give you what used to take a scholar years to assemble by hand: a Planetary Clock, an Operation Composer, a searchable table of correspondences, an Apothecary, an Augury Reader, and Chat With Agrippa — an AI trained on the book and everything behind it. Nothing to download or install. They open inside your account and stay there — yours for life — arriving one by one across the six weeks as each is finished.
You always know the hour, without doing the arithmetic. Agrippa’s system runs on unequal hours — reckoned from your local sunrise and sunset, not the clock on the wall. Open it inside your Magick.Me account and it computes them for wherever you are, shows the hour you’re in and the next one you want, and carries the Moon’s phase and sign alongside. Nothing to download.
You stop guessing when to act. You just act, on the right day and hour, every time.
You can build a complete, correct operation from a single sentence. One operation in Book One takes material from a dozen scattered chapters. Name an intention inside your account and the Composer assembles it the way Agrippa argues it: ruling planet, correct day and hour, stones and plants and colors, the matching suffumigation, place, preparation of mind, and the shape of the words — then prints as a working sheet.
Nothing is invented. Every line cites the chapter it came from, so you check the machine against the book — and you’re the one who decides it’s right.
You stop looking things up and start knowing them cold. The rulership chapters, turned into a table built into your account that you can actually search — ask what the Moon rules, or what rules coral, and narrow it to stones, plants, animals, or parts of the body. Every entry links straight back to its page in the text.
Where the 1533 printing is damaged, the entry says so — you always know exactly how firm the ground is under you.
You get the real recipes and the judgment to read them safely — which is the actual skill this course teaches. The fumigation recipes as Agrippa gives them, live in your account with each ingredient marked: safe and sourceable, hazardous with a substitution and the reasoning behind it, or historical-only and not to be attempted.
You can tell a real recipe from a dangerous one, on your own, for the rest of your life.
You build a divination practice that accumulates instead of scattering into notes you never find again. Chapters 53 to 60 are an omen catalog no one can hold in memory. Look up what you saw — bird, direction, hour — inside your account, read what Agrippa says it signifies, and keep the entry. Your dream record from week five lives here too.
Every sign you read becomes part of a permanent record only you have.
You get a second opinion from the closest thing available to Agrippa himself. We trained an AI on his text plus the library behind it — Ficino, Pliny, the Picatrix tradition — the way certain I Ching editions had their translators consult the oracle about its own translation. It doesn’t replace Jason as the author, and it isn’t Agrippa speaking from beyond. Once it ships to your account, ask it anything and get a cited answer.
Stuck on a passage at midnight? Ask, and get a cited answer in seconds — from inside your own account.
These are design mockups, not screenshots. Each tool ships during the class, cites its source chapters, and states its limits plainly. They organize the material; the reading, judgment, and practice stay yours.
The arc
Every week runs the same rhythm: read the chapters, meet live for ninety minutes, perform the week’s operation, log the result, and bring it back to your pod. You’re not reading this alone. Seven or eight other people are reading the same pages, on the same week, and they’ll notice if you go quiet.
Chapters 1–8
The architecture: elementary, celestial, and intellectual worlds, and the magician as the one who draws virtue down through all three. Then the elements — not chemistry, but a four-fold logic repeating at every level of reality.
Chapters 9–20
The engine behind the whole system. Some powers follow plainly from an object’s makeup. Others don’t — a magnet’s pull, an antidote’s action — and Agrippa calls those the occult virtues. This is where the theory starts doing real work.
Chapters 21–33
The longest list of correspondences in the book — which plant, stone, or animal belongs to which planet — and where readers on their own usually give up. You’re not here to memorize the list. You’re here to learn the logic, so you can work out new attributions yourself instead of looking them up.
Chapters 34–45
The book turns hands-on. You will learn how to draw celestial, vital, and mental influence toward you — then how planetary incense (suffumigation) and other compounds are made from Agrippa’s own recipes.
Chapters 46–60
Charged objects at the natural-magic level — amulets, pendants, rings — then reading a person by their face and body, and the ways Agrippa says nature itself gives signs: earth patterns, water, dreams, and mood.
Chapters 61–74
The climax, and the part most modern readers never reach. The passions of the soul change the body — and reach out to change another’s. Then speech, proper names, charms, writing, and the letter tables that open into Book Two. We close by putting Barrett’s 1801 Magus beside the 1533 Latin and reading the drift for ourselves.
Emblems: Michael Maier, Atalanta Fugiens, 1618.
The course
Each week gives you one clear piece of Book One. You read it. You meet live. You try one small, safe practice from the text. Then you write down what happened. Every week: a chapter, a practice, and a question worth carrying forward.
Your guide through the text
Twenty-five years in this material. 16,000+ students through Magick.Me. He wrote John Dee and the Empire of Angels — a history of the Elizabethan magic that sits squarely in this lineage. He’s taught the offshoots for two decades. This is the first time he’s taken a class straight to the source.
“My experience with Jason Louv as instructor has been amazing and edifying. Not only was the material truly fascinating—but also earthy and applicable to negotiating all manner of life concerns. Information is power—this is the place to be!”
— Bonnie L., Magick.Me student
“The value that Jason Louv has provided... is beyond anything I have seen in the magical community, and in academia thus far. I have been in the education profession for over a decade. The compendium of knowledge and supplementary material that Jason has assembled is only rivaled by the highest echelon of academic providers. The integration of technology; i.e. biofeedback tools, Web-based analytics & blended learning techniques to extend the classroom are all hallmarks of an instructor that understands how to truly integrate the course material into a highly impactful class that benefits from the best tools available... In summary, this course is a steal for the price.”
— Drew P., Magick.Me student
Part one of three
De Occulta Philosophia is three books, so this is three separate courses over one year, each its own live class. Book One is complete on its own — you can enroll in it and decide about Two and Three later. If you already know you want all three, the Complete Agrippa option below reserves all three classes now for $1,997, instead of paying $997 each ($2,991) as they open. That’s a $994 saving.
Book One — this class — autumn
The elements, occult virtue, the planetary rulership of all things, and the mind of the operator. The foundation everything else stands on.
Book Two — winter
Number and its scales, sacred geometry and harmonics, the planetary squares and seals, and the image-magic of the heavens.
Book Three — spring
Divine names, angels and intelligences, consecrations and rites — closing with Agrippa’s famous retraction, read as the final seminar.
Two ways to enroll
Six weeks, live, 29 Sept–3 Nov 2026. Complete on its own — nothing held back for later books.
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The text
Every English edition on the market descends from one 1651 translation — the first link in the chain above. We went further back, past that, to the 1533 Cologne printing (the same edition Jung kept in his library). From that Latin text, we’re preparing a modern, readable English translation, delivered chapter by chapter alongside the reading schedule.
The digital edition carries the Latin facing the English, so you can check any passage yourself. This is a teaching edition, not a critical one: our claim is that it’s clear, honest, prepared from the 1533 Latin, and unavailable anywhere else.
Two passages from the opening chapters — where Agrippa lays out the three worlds, then defines what magic actually is. Latin, the close translation, and a modernized working draft, side by side.
Latin — 1533, repaired
Magica facultas potestatis plurimae compos, altissimis plena mysteriis, profundissimam rerum secretissimarum contemplationem, naturam, potentiam, qualitatem, substantiam, et virtutem, totiusque naturae cognitionem complectitur.
Close translation
Magic is a faculty of very great power, full of the loftiest mysteries. It takes in the deepest contemplation of the most secret things — their nature, power, quality, substance, and force — and the knowledge of the whole of nature.
Modernized — working draft
Magic is a discipline of enormous power, full of the deepest mysteries. It covers the deepest study of the most hidden things — what they are, what they can do, what they’re like, what they’re made of, how strong they are — and the knowledge of nature entire.
Cum triplex sit mundus, elementalis, caelestis et intellectualis, et quisque inferiora superiori regatur, ac suarum virium suscipiat influxum, ita ut ipse archetypus et summus opifex, per angelos, caelos, stellas, elementa, animalia, plantas, metalla, lapides suae omnipotentiae virtutes exinde in nos transfundat, in quorum ministerium haec omnia condidit atque creavit.
Book One, Chapter 1 — opening.
There are three worlds: the elemental, the celestial, and the intellectual. Each lower world is governed by the one above it, and receives the influence of its powers, so that the Archetype himself — the supreme Maker — pours the powers of his omnipotence down into us through angels, the heavens, the stars, the elements, animals, plants, metals, and stones.
There are three worlds: the elemental, the celestial, and the intellectual. Each one is governed by the world above it and receives that world’s power. So the power flows down from the Archetype — the supreme Maker — through angels, the heavens, the stars, the elements, animals, plants, metals and stones, and finally into us.
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The lineage
Agrippa assembled Hermetic, Neoplatonic, Kabbalistic, and Arabic sources into one working synthesis. Everyone after him drew from it. Not one of those traditions copied him wholesale, and none of them would say they did — the material got absorbed so early and so completely that it stopped looking like a source and started looking like the water.
1533 — 1651
1801 — 1888
1904 — now
Five centuries of magicians worked from this book, and most never said so. Every name below owned it, cited it, copied it, or built their system on it — documented, not rumoured. When you enroll, you’re reading the same text they read, in the tradition their names built.
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim was a humanist, physician, lawyer, and writer who spent much of his life between courts, universities, and political trouble.
The ideas traveled, and so did the sentences — through five pairs of hands, each one a translator, an editor, or a compiler, each trimming a little and quietly dropping what they didn’t understand. Nobody in the chain was lying. That’s exactly what makes it hard to see.
You’re reading the actual source, not a copy of a copy. In week six, you’ll put Barrett’s 1801 text beside the 1533 Latin yourself, side by side, and see with your own eyes exactly how much got lost along the way.
Is this you?
No. The course assumes intelligence, not experience. Agrippa begins with the architecture of the world and builds everything from first principles — which is exactly how we read him. Twenty-year practitioners will find the ground under their practice; newcomers arrive with the one real advantage: nothing to unlearn.
No. The translation is included with enrollment and delivered chapter by chapter alongside the reading schedule. If you already own Tyson or Purdue, bring them — chapter numbers are identical across editions.
No. The digital edition carries the Latin facing the English so you can check any passage you want to, but nothing in the course requires you to read it.
No. The planetary timing system is taught from the ground up in the first three weeks — that’s one of the six things you leave with.
Every session is recorded and posted, and you keep them for life. The pods and the Discord run asynchronously, so the class still works around your schedule.
Six to eight hours a week: reading two to three, the live session ninety minutes, the operation one to three, and logging about an hour. It’s a real commitment and we’d rather you knew that now.
No. We selected the operations that can be honestly and safely attempted. Nothing toxic, nothing involving animals, nothing ingested, and no bindings directed at other people. Where we cut something we say so in the text and explain why — reading old books critically is part of what the course teaches.
Not as a text — as evidence. Barrett’s 1801 Magus is largely Agrippa recompiled into English with scant attribution, and it’s what the Golden Dawn had to hand, so his cuts and misreadings were inherited by everyone downstream. In week six we put a page of it beside the 1533 Latin and you find the divergences yourself. Reading Barrett for content would teach you Agrippa at two removes, which is the exact problem this course exists to fix.
No. One payment and you’re done — never a recurring charge, nothing to cancel. Klarna is available at checkout for US buyers if you’d rather split it. And the risk runs the other way: our standard refund policy applies, so you have 30 days from purchase to ask for your money back, in writing to support@magick.me.
Six tools, built into Magick.Me and yours to keep once you enroll: a Planetary Clock, an Operation Composer, a searchable table of correspondences (which plant, stone, or day belongs to which planet), an annotated Apothecary, an Augury Reader, and Chat With Agrippa — an AI trained on his text and the library behind it. The images on this page are design mockups. Each tool ships across the six weeks of the class, and each one shows you exactly which chapter it came from.
Book Two (Celestial Magic) follows in winter, Book Three (Ceremonial Magic) in spring. Book One stands on its own as a complete thing — and it’s also the beginning of the complete Agrippa. If you already know you want the whole arc, the Complete Agrippa covers all three classes at $1,997, and the waitlist gets first claim on it.
Founding tuition · Book One only
$997 $797 founding tuition — Book One
This is Book One only — six weeks live, the new translation, six tools for life, every session recorded, a pod that shows up with you, lifetime access. Books Two and Three are separate courses in later classes. Seats are capped at 72 total, split into pods of 8–12. Founding tuition ends when this opens to the public, so this is the best rate it’s at right now.
Read it, sit with it, work the first sessions. You have 30 days from purchase. If it’s not for you, write support@magick.me and we send back every cent. That’s the whole promise.
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