A root page for Renaissance Hermeticism as a movement: the rebirth of Hermetic, Platonic, magical, artistic, and Christian esoteric synthesis in early modern Europe.
Main idea
Renaissance Hermeticism is the flowering of the Western Mystery Tradition after the recovery of ancient texts and the rebirth of the Platonic imagination.
Core themes
- The Florentine Academy
- Marsilio Ficino and the translation of Plato and the Hermetica
- Pico della Mirandola and Christian Cabala
- Hermetic magic, music, astrology, and the imagination
- The dignity of man as microcosm
- Prisca Theologia and the ancient theology
- Art, beauty, and theurgic creation
- The bridge from medieval Christianity to early modern esotericism
Topics to expand
- Ficino
- Pico della Mirandola
- The Corpus Hermeticum in the Renaissance
- The Florentine Academy
- Christian Cabala
- Renaissance magic
- Orphic hymns and musical magic
- Botticelli, sacred beauty, and mythic art
- The Renaissance as partial restoration of the Golden Chain
Place in the Royal Art
This page belongs to the Hermetic Arts and Sciences as a major historical movement in which philosophy, magic, Christianity, art, astrology, and ancient wisdom converge.