Henri Cornélis, known as Clutched

Biography

Its true family name is Cornelis, it united Agrippa there, drawn from the old name of Cologne ( Colonia Agrippina ), its birthplace, and ab Nettesheim added to it, which gives in Latin with the Christian name, Henricus Cornelius Agrippa ab Nettesheim .

It successfully cultivated all known sciences of its time, and carried out a life extremely agitated, which carried out it, because of its presumption and its difficult nature, to change residence unceasingly. After having taught with Pares, to London, Cologne, Paris, Turin, Metz, Freiburg, it came, in 1524, to fix themselves at Lyon to exert medicine there, and was named shortly after doctor of Louise of Savoy, mother of. Driven out France by this princess whom he had insulted, he was accommodated by Marguerite, controlling of the Netherlands. Having then returned to France it was put in prison, and died, little of time after having recovered its freedom, in a hospital of Grenoble, in 1535.

Clutched fought the philosophy of its time, but was to substitute more dangerous errors for it: it gave in the Scepticisme, then in the Mysticisme, the Alchimie and the magic, and stuck especially to the doctrines of Johannes Reuchlin and Raymond Lulle.

Anecdote

British writer J.K. Rowling, took as a starting point the life of Henri Cornélis to create a historical character of the saga " Harry Potter" , of the name of Cornélius Clutched.

Works

Its principal writings are:

Of incertitudine and vanitate scientiarum , (Antwerp, 1530);
Of occulted philosophia (1531), traditional of the esoteric literature , which made it show magic and a long imprisonment with Brussels was worth to him;
Of nobilitate and præcellentia feminei sexes , (1529), work written to flatter Marguerite.

Robert Fludd supported the idea that Agrippa had been member of a fraternity which was made known one century later under the name of “Frères of the Rosicrucian brotherhood”. It referred to support its dires with this sentence of Clutched:

“There exist today some men filled with wisdom, of a single science, endowed with great virtues and great capacities. Their life and their manners are just, their prudence without defect. By their age and their force they would be capable to render great services in the councils for the public thing; but the courtiers scorn them, because they are too different from them, which have as a wisdom only the intrigue and the mischievousness, and of which all the intentions proceed of the easy way, of the trick which is all their science, like the perfidy their prudence, and the superstition their religion”

Since then, it is generally allowed in the mediums esoteric and rosicrucians whom Crow-Clutched was Rosicrucian brotherhood but, taking into account the time, the fact cannot be established in an unquestionable way. The Inquisition held a " indeed; treatment of faveur" with the authors of works such as Philosophy Occults , and for this Agrippa reason did not have of cease to scramble the tracks.

The occultist Eliphas Lévi held it in great regard and often quotes it in its works.

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