Cornelius Agrippa and Joseph Smith
Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2016 6:28 pm
It is interesting to consider what kind of influence passages such as this may have had on Joseph Smith:
Cornelius Agrippa wrote:Seeing there is a three-fold world--elementary, celestial, and intellectual--and every inferior is governed by its superior, and receiveth the influence of the virtues thereof, so that the very original and chief worker of all doth by angels, the heaven, stars, elements, animals, plants, metals, and stones convey from Himself the virtues of his omnipotency upon us, for whose service He made and created all these things: wise men conceive it in no way irrational that it should be possible for us to ascend by the same degrees through each world, to the same very original world itself, the Maker of all things and First Cause, from whence all things are and proceed; and also to enjoy not only these virtues, which are already in the more excellent kind of things, but also besides these, to draw new virtues from above.