…potions and toads or that sort of thing. But in the Renaissance, in the courts of the Medici court, people like Marcello Facino and Campanello and these people took the idea of astrological associations, in other words, that plans and minerals and odors…

…its true state. And yet, you know, we really have to return to the point of view of the great Renaissance magicians like Marcello Facino, who said. He said, man. But let us say, humanity is the measure of all things. Humanity is the measure of all…

…itself. Consciousness of the how of the way things unfold. Well, anyway, we have our own value system, you know. I mean, Marcello Facino said man, and he meant by that, humanity. Man is the measure of all things. Man is the measure of all things.…

…tremendous dignity to the human enterprise. But it also raises the possibility of the error of pride and hubris. In the Renaissance, Marcello Facino boiled this notion down to the aphorism, man is the measure of all things. And you may notice that this is…

…seen by the fact that Gemistus Pletho brought Plato to the florentine council, as well as her Hermes trismegistos. And when Marcello Facino sat down to do this translation work, Cosimo de Medici said, plato can wait, I'm getting old. You do the hermetic…

…if you completely lacked the concept of electricity, as the Renaissance did. The Renaissance knew nothing of electricity. And yet Marcello Facino and the florentine Platonists and all those people were able to produce magical systems. The 19th century is the…

…philosophical certitude of giving your allegiance to the Holy Father in Rome and setting out into the pure existential universe? I mean, Marcello Facino said, man is to be the measure of all things. Well, this sounds like old hat in 1990, but in 1480,…

…potions and toads or that sort of thing. But in the Renaissance, in the courts of the Medici court, people like Marcello Facino and Campanello, and these people took the idea of astrological associations, in other words, that plants and minerals and odors…

…God almighty. There is no other standard but man, humanity, people. And this is a renaissance ideal. It was first enunciated by Marcello Facino in 1510, but we have not acted upon it. We have not, up to this time, had a secular humanist society. We've…

…the potential of abuse. The hermetic attitude in the Renaissance was summed up in a single aphorism by the great Renaissance Platonist Marcello Facino. And what he said was, and I have to, you know, there's no sexism in all of this. You just have to…

…been able to read for a thousand years, sitting there waiting for translation. And the Cosimo de Medici said to Marcello Facino, Plato can wait. Translate the hermetic corpus first. And so it was done. If you're interested in Renaissance hermeticism, you…

…artifice and then reflecting back upon man, a perfect world created through magic. This is the faith of the Renaissance magi, Marcello, Facino and Campanella and these people. It's a different idea than the idea of man as a fallen creature or science's…