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</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For the 1558 book by Giambattista della Porta, see <a href="Magia_Naturalis" title="Magia Naturalis">Magia Naturalis</a>.</div>

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</style><table class="sidebar sidebar-collapse nomobile nowraplinks"><tbody><tr><td class="sidebar-pretitle" style="background: #efefef">Part of a series on</td></tr><tr><th class="sidebar-title-with-pretitle" style="background: #efefef;font-size:170%;"><a href="Magic_(supernatural)" title="Magic (supernatural)">Magic</a></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-image" style="background:#ffffff"></td></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content hlist" style="padding:0.2em 0.2em 0.3em;">
<div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background: #efefef;background:#ccccff;padding:0;color:#333399;;color: var(--color-base)"><div class="sidebar-list-title-c">Background</div></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content">
<ul><li><a href="History_of_magic" title="History of magic">History of magic</a></li>
<li><a href="Magic_and_religion" title="Magic and religion">Magic and religion</a></li>
<li><a href="Psychological_theories_of_magic" title="Psychological theories of magic">Psychological theories of magic</a></li></ul></div></div></td>
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<div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="background: #efefef;background:#ccccff;padding:0;color:#333399;;color: var(--color-base)"><div class="sidebar-list-title-c">Forms</div></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content">
<ul><li><a href="Apotropaic_magic" title="Apotropaic magic">Apotropaic magic</a></li>
<li><a href="Black_magic" title="Black magic">Black magic</a></li>
<li><a href="Ceremonial_magic" title="Ceremonial magic">Ceremonial magic</a></li>
<li><a href="Chaos_magic" title="Chaos magic">Chaos magic</a></li>
<li><a href="Divination" title="Divination">Divination</a></li>
<li><a href="Evocation" title="Evocation">Evocation</a></li>
<li><a href="Goetia" title="Goetia">Goetia</a></li>
<li><a href="Gray_magic" title="Gray magic">Gray magic</a></li>
<li><a href="Invocation" title="Invocation">Invocation</a></li>

<li><a href="Necromancy" title="Necromancy">Necromancy</a></li>
<li><a href="Sex_magic" title="Sex magic">Sex magic</a></li>
<li><a href="Shamanism" title="Shamanism">Shamanism</a></li>
<li><a href="Sigil" title="Sigil">Sigils</a></li>
<li><a href="Sympathetic_magic" title="Sympathetic magic">Sympathetic magic</a></li>
<li><a href="Thaumaturgy" title="Thaumaturgy">Thaumaturgy</a></li>
<li><a href="Theurgy" title="Theurgy">Theurgy</a></li>
<li><a href="White_magic" title="White magic">White magic</a></li>
<li><a href="Witchcraft" title="Witchcraft">Witchcraft</a></li></ul></div></div></td>
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<ul><li><a href="Magic_and_religion" title="Magic and religion">Magic and religion</a></li>
<li><a href="Christian_views_on_magic" title="Christian views on magic">Christian views on magic</a></li>
<li><a href="Folk_religion" title="Folk religion">Folk religion</a></li>
<li><a href="Islam_and_magic" title="Islam and magic">Islam and magic</a></li>
<li><a href="Mysticism" title="Mysticism">Mysticism</a></li>
<li><a href="Shinto" title="Shinto">Shinto</a></li>
<li><a href="Thelema" title="Thelema">Thelema</a></li></ul></div></div></td>
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<ul><li><a href="Divine_embodiment" title="Divine embodiment">Divine embodiment</a></li>
<li><a href="Incantation" title="Incantation">Incantation</a></li>
<li><a href="Magical_formula" title="Magical formula">Magical formula</a></li>
<li><a href="Magical_organization" title="Magical organization">Magical organization</a><br></li>
<li><a href="Occult" title="Occult">Occult</a></li>
<li><a href="Western_esotericism" title="Western esotericism">Western esotericism</a></li></ul></div></div></td>
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<p><b>Natural magic</b> in the context of <a href="Renaissance_magic" title="Renaissance magic">Renaissance magic</a> is that part of the <a href="Occult" title="Occult">occult</a> which deals with <a href="Fundamental_forces" class="mw-redirect" title="Fundamental forces">natural forces</a> directly, as opposed to <a href="Ceremonial_magic" title="Ceremonial magic">ceremonial magic</a> which deals with the summoning of spirits.<sup id="cite_ref-Agrippa567_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Agrippa567-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Natural magic sometimes makes use of physical substances from the natural world such as stones or herbs.<sup id="cite_ref-Agrippa567_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Agrippa567-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Natural magic so defined includes <a href="Astrology" title="Astrology">astrology</a>, <a href="Alchemy" title="Alchemy">alchemy</a>, and disciplines that we would today consider fields of <a href="Natural_science" title="Natural science">natural science</a>, such as <a href="Astronomy" title="Astronomy">astronomy</a> and <a href="Chemistry" title="Chemistry">chemistry</a> (which developed and diverged from astrology and alchemy, respectively, into the modern sciences they are today) or <a href="Botany" title="Botany">botany</a> (from <a href="Herbology" class="mw-redirect" title="Herbology">herbology</a>). The <a href="Jesuits" title="Jesuits">Jesuit</a> scholar <a href="Athanasius_Kircher" title="Athanasius Kircher">Athanasius Kircher</a> wrote that "there are as many types of natural magic as there are subjects of applied sciences".<sup id="cite_ref-Stolzenberg51_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Stolzenberg51-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p><a href="Heinrich_Cornelius_Agrippa" title="Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa">Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa</a> discusses natural magic in his <i><a href="Three_Books_of_Occult_Philosophy" title="Three Books of Occult Philosophy">Three Books of Occult Philosophy</a></i> (1533),<sup id="cite_ref-Agrippa567_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Agrippa567-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Versluis80_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Versluis80-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> where he calls it "nothing else but the highest power of natural sciences".<sup id="cite_ref-Agrippa567_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Agrippa567-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Italian Renaissance philosopher <a href="Giovanni_Pico_della_Mirandola" title="Giovanni Pico della Mirandola">Giovanni Pico della Mirandola</a>, who founded the tradition of <a href="Christian_Kabbalah" title="Christian Kabbalah">Christian Kabbalah</a>, argued that natural magic was "the practical part of natural science" and was lawful rather than heretical.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2></div>
<ul><li><a href="Kit%C4%81b_al-naw%C4%81m%C4%ABs" title="Kitāb al-nawāmīs"><i>Kitāb al-nawāmīs</i></a>&nbsp;– Arabic book of magic</li>
<li><a href="Giambattista_della_Porta" title="Giambattista della Porta">Giambattista della Porta</a>&nbsp;– Italian polymath (1535–1615)</li>
<li><a href="Magia_Naturalis" title="Magia Naturalis"><i>Magia Naturalis</i></a>&nbsp;– Book by Giambattista della Porta</li>
<li><a href="Protoscience" title="Protoscience">Protoscience</a>&nbsp;– Research field that may become a science</li>
<li><a href="Thomas_Vaughan_(philosopher)" title="Thomas Vaughan (philosopher)">Thomas Vaughan</a>&nbsp;– Welsh philosopher (1621–1666)</li>
<li><a href="White_magic" title="White magic">White magic</a>&nbsp;– Magic used for selfless purposes</li></ul>
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</style><cite id="CITEREFAgrippa1651" class="citation book cs1">Agrippa, Henry Cornelius (1651). <i>Three Books of Occult Philosophy</i>. Translated by Freake, James. London. pp.&nbsp;<span class="nowrap">567–</span>576.</cite></span>
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<li id="cite_note-Stolzenberg51-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Stolzenberg51_2-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite id="CITEREFStolzenberg2001" class="citation book cs1">Stolzenberg, Daniel (2001). <i>The Great Art of Knowing: The Baroque Encyclopedia of Athanasius Kircher</i>. Stanford University Libraries. p.&nbsp;51. <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&nbsp;<bdi>0911221239</bdi>.</cite></span>
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<li id="cite_note-Versluis80-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Versluis80_3-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite id="CITEREFVersluis2007" class="citation book cs1">Versluis, Arthur (2007). <i>Magic and Mysticism: An Introduction to Western Esotericism</i>. Rowman &amp; Littlefield. p.&nbsp;80. <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&nbsp;<bdi>978-0742558366</bdi>.</cite></span>
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<li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite id="CITEREFMebane1992" class="citation book cs1">Mebane, John S. (1992). <i>Renaissance Magic and the Return of the Golden Age: The Occult Tradition and Marlowe, Jonson, and Shakespeare</i>. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. pp.&nbsp;<span class="nowrap">44–</span>45. <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&nbsp;<bdi>9780803281790</bdi>.</cite></span>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2></div>
<ul><li><cite class="citation journal cs1">Nauert, Charles G. (1957). "Magic and Skepticism in Agrippa's Thought". <i>Journal of the History of Ideas</i>: 176.</cite></li>
<li><cite class="citation book cs1">Stark, Ryan J. (2009). <i>Rhetoric, Science, and Magic in Seventeenth-Century England</i>. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press.</cite></li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2></div>
<p><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"></span> The dictionary definition of <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Special:Search/natural_magic" class="extiw external" title="wiktionary:Special:Search/natural magic"><i>natural magic</i></a> at Wiktionary.
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