Marsilio Ficino

Stefan's Moldavia was, in a sense, holding the line until Muscovy could emerge.

then what was going on in uh in western europe at the time the renaissance so 1450s you know you get the gutenberg press you get the first printing press revolutionized uh learning book literacy the spreading of information at that time 1470s florence venice and rome were cultural centers of art and humanism you know again we've talked about the the translating of Plato and the Hermetic Corpus and Marsilio Ficino and Cosimo de' Medici.

All that stuff was going on in Italy at this time.

And again, during the life of St. Stephen, you have the voyage of Christopher Columbus to the New World in 1492.

But just as important, it revealed how to reuse, reconsider and recreate ideas and practices that had slipped into oblivion." I will add a few more details from the Tarot episode.

Later in his life, Cosimo di Medici had taken a keen interest in the Corpus Hermeticum and commissioned the academic priest and philosopher Marsilio Ficino in 1463 to write his version of the Prisca Theologia, transcribing it from Byzantine Greek into Latin.

At the time, this was a major big deal.

These manuscripts were important documents and were not available in Latin until this time.

You can have a fabulous day really understanding the deeper layers of the city and you can revive yourself at the cafe inside and go back for more.

Then there is the Laurentian Library.

the place to house the Medici family's manuscripts and rare books, the ones I was just talking about when he got Marsilio Ficino to transcribe those manuscripts.

So this was a thing that had started around this time, that he collected manuscripts and rare books.

The phrase comes into being, I think, in 1484.

In a Florentine writer called Marsilio Ficino, he was the first person to translate Plato into Latin.

He was one of the first people in the west of Europe to learn ancient Greek and to start translating a lot of Greek philosophy into Latin, which is what the educated people could read, but most people could not read ancient Greek.

in Western Europe at the time.

And I'm not sure if you're aware of this, but Golden Dawn people actually owe Crowley a lot for vision and a voice.

You might not know this tidbit of recent Golden Dawn scholarship.

It's often said that the Golden Dawn only knew about the Watchtowers and didn't know about everything else, which has long been debunked.

In fact, Mathers wrote lessons on both the Heptarchia, the first part of Dee's system, had a lesson on that called Seven Days of Creation and how to work with Heptarchia.

That has been lost, but we know about it because all the adepts are writing about it in their diaries, so we know it existed.

And Crowley's working of the Athers is the only remaining demonstration of Mather's lesson on traveling in the spirit vision through the Enochian Athers.

I forget the exact title of the paper, but Nick Farrell has documented it in his scholarship based on old 100-year-ago Golden Dawn Adept Diaries.

So it's interesting.