There was a man in 15th century Florence named Marsilio Ficino who received a collection of Greek manuscripts and was told by Cosimo de' Medici to translate them before anything else — before Plato, before anything. He worked through the night. What he found in those pages had not been read in the West for a thousand years...
Renaissance magician who synthesized Neoplatonism and Hermeticism.
Library of Light Edition 1.0 — Last revised: May 2026