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  • Aside from Ficino's Hermetic and Neoplatonist books, De verbo mirifico was the most important influence on the youthful draft of

    Loss of Faith 2009

  • Another major source of Agrippa's ideas on magic was the Christianized Cabalism of the pioneering German Hebraist Johann Reuchlin, whose De verbo mirifico (1494) was nearly the only source of knowledge about Jewish Cabalism available to Agrippa in 1510.

    Loss of Faith 2009

  • His lectures were on Johann Reuchlin's Cabalistic book De verbo mirifico (1494), which used Cabalistic exegetical techniques to prove from the Hebrew Bible that Jesus Christ was the true Messiah and that the name “Jesus” was a source of miraculous power.

    Loss of Faith 2009

  • Thus, in an earlier work (De verbo mirifico) he had equated the four consonants in the Hebrew name for God, JHVH, with the Pythagorean tetraktys, and gave to each of the letters, which are equated with numbers as in Greek practice, a mystical meaning.

    Pythagoreanism Huffman, Carl 2006

  • Perhaps it is quite as well -- "_omne ignotum pro mirifico_" -- and who would lose the pleasure of wonder and conjecture, with all its imaginary phantasmagoria?

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844 Various

  • _Omne ignotum pro mirifico_, I might say, but I prefer the longer phrase.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, May 16, 1891 Various

  • _Omne iguotum pro mirifico_, of course; and so up went Jack's fortune to twenty thousand a year.

    The Lady of the Ice A Novel James De Mille

  • What was left unaccomplished by the centurions of literature came ultimately from the strangest of all possible quarters; from the study of an humble pupil of the transmuter of metals and prince of mountebanks and quacks -- the expounder of Reuchlin _de verbo mirifico_, and lecturer in the unknown tongues -- the follower of

    Discovery of Witches The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster Thomas Potts

  • But at the end of the twelfth century, Peter Cantor (De verbo mirifico) says that the subdiaconate had lately been made a sacred order.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

  • Less important are his cabalistic writings ( "De verbo mirifico", 1494; "De arte cabbalistica", 1517), in which he becomes lost in the abstruse problems of mysterious names and figures.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

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