10-04-2019, 04:55 PM
My impression is that the VMS is not weird. I mean its message, its cultural framework. Of course, its script is completely strange, but its philosophy corresponds to the thought of the XV century. It is the Neoplatonic mentality, the hermetic corpus as it was picked up by Marsilio Ficino.
In his work De triplici vita, Ficino, who was a doctor, explains how to attract the influence of the stars. He considers magic as a channeling of cosmic powers.
We usually reject this kind of thinking but is key to understand that period of history. As Frances Yates said: learned magic, with its promise of power over the world, was one part of the soil from which grew the New Science.
In his work De triplici vita, Ficino, who was a doctor, explains how to attract the influence of the stars. He considers magic as a channeling of cosmic powers.
We usually reject this kind of thinking but is key to understand that period of history. As Frances Yates said: learned magic, with its promise of power over the world, was one part of the soil from which grew the New Science.