Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- List of Illustrations -- Chapter One: Introduction -- Theory and Method -- Cornelius Agrippa: Life -- Works -- Chapter Two: Logos and Nature -- The Natural Magic Problem -- The Practice of Natural Magic: Man as Operator -- Magic and Skeptical Philosophy -- Conclusions -- Chapter Three: Sign, Sigil, Text -- Exemplum: Magic Squares and Figures -- Exemplum: the Practice of Images -- Theories of Signification -- The Elementary Forms of Language -- The Power of the Sign -- Inscribing the Powers -- Conclusions -- Chapter Four: The Language of Demons and Angels -- Magical Kabbalah -- Esotericism, Occultism, and Magic -- Ritual Magic -- Ritual, Belief, and Secrecy -- Manipulating the Demonic -- How to Summon a Demon -- Conclusions -- Chapter Five: Conclusion -- Agrippan Interpretations -- Historical Speculations -- Theoretical Meditations -- Appendix One: Latin Quotations, De occulta philosophia -- Appendix Two: De vanitate on Alchemy -- Bibliography -- Works by Agrippa (abbreviated) -- Works on Agrippa -- Premodern Sources -- Modern Works -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.