…a co partnership deal. It's not a wrathful God and a pathetic humanity. This is the position of Renaissance magic. Basically. Marcello Ficino and Pico de Mirandolo and that crowd. Bruno. D. D. Yes, maybe Well, not exactly separate, but we inherit it.…

…1492. What has happened along that gradient is the entirety of the Italian Renaissance. Let me see here yes, Marcello Ficino, Vasco Da gama, Cabral, Erasmus, Machiavelli Matthias Grunewald, Copernicus, Etc. Etc etc. The tremendous plunge into novelty which…

…that had been lost in Europe, the parts of aristotle that had been forgotten, and people like gemisticus Plato and Marcello Ficino under the patronage of Lorenzo De Medici translated these things into vernacular languages and classicism was born. We don't…

…its true state. And yet you know we really have to return to the point of view of the Great Renaissance Magicians like Marcello Ficino, who said he said man. But let us say: humanity is the measure of all things. Humanity is the measure of all things…

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

…or god almighty. There is no other standard but man, humanity, people. And this is a Renaissance idea that was first enunciated by Marcello Ficino in 1510, but we have not acted upon it. We have not up to this time had a secular humanist society. We've…

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

…can be seen by the fact that Gemistus Plato brought Plato to the florentine council as well as Hermes Trismegistus. And when Marcello Ficino sat down to do this translation work Cosimo De Medici said: Plato can wait, I'm getting old. You do the hermetic…

…changed almost out of recognition. Who could recognize the necromancer studying his picatrix in secret in the elegant Ficino with his infinitely refined use of sympathies his classical incantations his elaborately neoplatonized talismans? Who could recognize the…

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

…book called Giordano Bruno and the hermetic tradition and there's another book by d p walker called demonic and spiritual magic from Ficino to Campanella. These are not easy books to find. Try the bodhi tree and William and Victoria Daly Down on melrose…

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

…its true state. And yet you know we really have to return to the point of view of the Great Renaissance Magicians like Marcello Ficino, who said: he said man, but let us say: humanity is the measure of all things, humanity is the measure of all things.…

…potential of abuse. The hermetic attitude in the Renaissance was summed up in a single aphorism by the Great Renaissance Platonist Marcello Ficino and what he said was: there's no sexism in all of this. You just have to realize these guys were primitive…

…hadn't been able to read for a thousand years, sitting there waiting for translation. And Cosimo De Medici said to Marcello Ficino: Plato can wait, translate the hermetic corpus first. And so it was done. If you're interested in Renaissance Hermeticism you…

…to read, which will point you toward many other interesting books, is a wonderful book called spiritual and demonic magic from Ficino to Campanella. Some of you may remember Campanella Hell of a fighter, anyway, hello. And in the Renaissance, over a period…

…memories can see the time wave signature as it turns over and heads through the floor and the Cosimo De Medici Immediately ordered Ficino to abandon his work on Plato and the paimander, which was one of these books it was the only one which existed in…

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

…certitude of giving your allegiance to the holy father in Rome and setting out into, you know the pure existential universe. I mean Marcello Ficino said man is to be the measure of all things. Well this sounds like old hat in 1990 but in 1480 you know…

…without the potential of abuse. The hermetic attitude in the Renaissance was summed up in a single aphorism by the Great Renaissance Platonist Marcello Ficino. And what he said was and I have to you know there's no sexism in all of this you just have to…

…hadn't been able to read for a thousand years, sitting there waiting for translation. And Cosimo De Medici said to Marcello Ficino: Plato can wait, translate the hermetic corpus first. And so it was done. If you're interested in Renaissance Hermeticism, you…

…to read, which will point you toward many other interesting books is a wonderful book called spiritual and demonic magic from Ficino to Campanella. Some of you may remember Campanella. Hell of a fighter, anyway, hello. And in the Renaissance, over a period…

…memories can see the time wave signature as it turns over and heads through the floor and Cosimo De Medici Immediately ordered Ficino to abandon his work on Plato and the paimander, which was one of these books. It was the only one which existed…