"What He Retains Is An Agency Grounded in the Soul’s Union With Its Divine Source."
Agrippa’s apparent retraction of magic is best understood not as a simple abandonment of occult practice, but as a rejection of magic conceived as a self-sufficient technical system. While he repudiates the naïve superstition and mechanical ritualism of his earlier interests, he retains a vision of magical efficacy grounded in the purified and divinely illuminated soul.