Alchemical Emblems, Occult Diagrams, and Memory Arts: November 2011

The One and the Many Gods http://t.co/sPcHxGDw

SEP Schopenhauer article revised http://t.co/VxrRMZOk
RT @EPButler Disentangling the intelligible from the phantasmatic's
as important for developing the phantasm as for grasping intelligibility

"If Athens is where the Greeks learned power accrued to one who knew
how to write, Alexandria learned the reader has special power as well."

"Whose is the cunning hand that set them up? A Puzzle Maker of
infinite cunning and infinite resources!" http://t.co/iE6Ygty3 via
@fadesingh

How Philosophers Saved Myths: Allegorical Interpretation and
Classical Mythology http://t.co/SSsSQCRr

Der Kommentar des Proklos zu Hesiods ‘Werken und Tagen’
http://t.co/MMO68R11

Metaphor, Allegory and the Classical Tradition: Ancient Thought and
Modern Revisions http://t.co/85s9NS8V

Allegorical Readers and Cultural Revision in Ancient Alexandria
http://t.co/FLONTOLO

Feminine Personification of Wisdom:Study of Homer's
Penelope,Cappadocian Macrina,Boethius'Philosophia+Dante's Beatrice
http://t.co/yp7yuiXT

Proclus: the theurgical power...gathers benefits of
divination+purificatory power of ritual+all activities whatsoever of divine
inspiration.

Offering to the Gods: A Neoplatonic Perspective http://t.co/21gMWGDe

Edward Butler, Polycentric Polytheism+the Philosophy of Religion
http://t.co/0xhiwcE3 non reductive crosscultural comparison between deities

Butler:polycentric nature of NP theology theoretical articulation for
henotheistic practices w/in polytheism w/o invoking “mono tendencies.”

Thoth article in Edward Butler's Theological Encyclopedia of Ancient
Egyptian Gods and Goddesses http://t.co/d7hBUf6J

Leen Spruit on Pico' theory of intelligible species
http://t.co/P3zoeEIQ

Hegel and the Hermetic Tradition by Glenn Magee http://t.co/2y6L2dkU

Dawson: "Only when God or meaning is present to the text but less so
to the world or [vice versa] does the allegorical imagination emerge."

"ancient literary critics rarely concerned with the interpretation of
a whole literary work...focus on the level of the word or the gloss."

The trouble, according to Silk, is that theorizing about poetry has
gone on without theorists giving thought to actual poems.

Crowther: metaphor is essentially predicative and its "basic purpose"
is "the cognitive elucidation" of what is being described

"for Plato, metaphor could have a heuristic function in a
conversation in which neither party was able absolutely to enlighten the
other."

Gods and Goddesses of the Ancient Egyptians: A Theological
Encyclopedia http://t.co/qSdpexqd by @EPButler

Hellenismos and the Future of Paganism: An Interview with Rebecca
Buchanan http://t.co/d6VyjnHa

RT @EPButler The beauty of #Bruno is that he reads everything, then does
such original things with it that "influence" seems beside the point.
"[Bruno] rejected hylomorphism in favor of a monism in which the
universal, infinite, and eternal substance was identical with God+nature."

Giordano Bruno in Paul Oscar Kristeller's Eight Philosophers of the
Italian Renaissance http://t.co/P43InTQA

Giordano Bruno, His Life and Thought, with an annoted translation of
his Infinity of Worlds http://t.co/1JpMxzFl Dorothea Singer

Sicut sensus non potest sentire sine sensibili, ita anima non potest
intelligere sine phantasmate.–Aquinas, Sentencia libri De anima, III.12

Speculative Medievalisms: A Laboratory-Atelier http://t.co/sLIr80yo

"... second intentions, carradoths, antitheses, metempsychoses,
transcendent prolepsies, and such other light food." -Rabelais

Gatti: One of the most original aspects of Coleridge's interest in Bruno regarded his dialectic.

Where did Philip K. Dick get his ideas about Giordano Bruno?
http://t.co/oQPQPiDA (under construction, would appreciate any leads)

Giordano Bruno as supplement to Deleuze http://t.co/vc8Niqx2
RT @aureliomadrid: eriugena (part of the) periphyseon
http://t.co/lLrwuzJg PDF @t3dy
Kripal: Grof begins, like William James, with a "methodological
principle of excess." Esalen p.256

McKenna: “[John] Dee is the last person to be able to unify into
one world view science,+mathematics,+magic,+astrology all together.”

"Modern science is an incredibly demonic enterprise." -Terence
McKenna on Alchemy and Renaissance Magic as influences in the history of
sci.

RT @davidbmetcalfe "I breached the veil of ISIS and all I got was
this cheaply printed pamphlet on intra-psychic vampires..."

"Human beings are co-partners with deity in the project of being.
This is the basis of all magic." -Terence McKenna http://t.co/FS9QMZMM
@davidbmetcalfe all they did at Eleusis was hold a stupid ear of corn
up to my head and speak the Word.

"Flaming giraffe equals Masculine apocalyptic monster. Cat angel
equals divine heterosexual monster. Hourglass equals metaphysical
monster.” -Dali

The Glass Bead Gamification #lessinterestingbooks

@davidbmetcalfe Archon is a virus?

RT @erik_davis: Hilarious and deeply weird take-down of human
potential. Dylan Moran. http://t.co/aMYtzAU3

RT @philo_quotes: The human body is the best picture of the human soul. ~ Wittgenstein

Paracelsus Celebration website by Allen Debus, dean of alchemical
studies in the history of science http://t.co/86uUAipq

The Problem with Propitiation http://t.co/XnnaiP3c Thelema and Faith blog

RT @Lyndon_M: "I searched for God and found only myself. I searched
for myself and found only God." - Sufi Proverb (via... http://t.co/7 ...

Zurich Paracelsus Project http://t.co/w9DUspkj

Alchemical allegory in Rabelais http://t.co/ITQreZnL
"our only way to arrive safe at the queendom of Whims was to trust to
the whirlwind and be led by the current." -Rabelais, G+P Bk.5 #fnord

Ficino and Neoplatonic Theories of Language http://t.co/V3MNbv9W
James Bono, The Word of God and the Languages of Man

"The inner nature of everything may therefore be known through Magic
in general, and through the powers of the inner (or second) sight." -PC

"[Alchemy] is like unto death, which separates the eternal from the
mortal, so that it should properly be known as the death of things." -PC

Paracelsus on inner seeing http://t.co/yMEPTNJt

“Just as outer seeing is suited to the farmer, inner seeing, which
is secret seeing, is suited to the physician." -Paracelsus

Paracelsus "was the first to imagine that the body worked like an
alchemical laboratory+that it was chemical in nature" http://t.co/Cbci22B4

chart of alchemical symbols in unicode http://t.co/EQ3E4AHa

Test for Unicode support in Web browsers Alchemical Symbols
http://t.co/Nikrnqv3

Proposal for Alchemical Symbols in Unicode http://t.co/PzowB2FF

RT @fredgibbs: #histsci + #dh = awesome. RT @dhnow: Resource:
Alchemy, Text Analysis, and Networks! Oh my! http://t.co/U300DVdI

RT @rmathematicus: Contrary to the claims of many sources Paracelsus
was probably not born on 11/11 http://t.co/YlUTryKq

Muehlberger: "In antiquity, some Christians believed that angels were
minds, or intellects, detached from bodies,"

Muehlberger: "In a way, angels were like computers---very, very good
at figuring things out and getting things done..."

"...because they had rational minds but did not have the difficulty
of having desires and passions, like humanity." http://t.co/ta27zGPg

Angels in Christianity Evolved Over Time,New Research Shows
http://t.co/ta27zGPg

RT @erik_davis: Play well! Pre-guru Tim Leary on behavior change and
the games of human culture: http://t.co/ZfY7w2Wm

RT @erik_davis: Dark and wacky Harold Bloom oped on Mormonism,
Romney, politics and the poetry of American religion: http://t.co/WtCkVBwL

RT @erik_davis: Comic Patton Oslwalt on LSD and the pagan conspiracy
of Lucky Charms. http://t.co/a8xivTyH

Jinn according to Quran and Sunnah http://t.co/4ePfmw5O Surat al-Jinn
-- 72nd sura of the Qur'an http://t.co/jj0FQXvJ

Stela of Ashurbanipal carrying a basket on his head
http://t.co/1xT0sBiZ

Stela of Ashurbanipal http://t.co/UJnIy44t

The Babylonian Visual Image http://t.co/OmzJCT6M in the Routledge
Babylonian World

Studies in the History of the Exact Sciences in Honour of David
Pingree http://t.co/MP6us2Ry Pingree bio at wikipedia http://t.co/enYxPmWS

Witchcraft, Sorcery, Rumors and Gossip http://t.co/6zn2RhIq
#anthropology

Alchemical Symbolism through questions http://t.co/F6wqmpR6

in Image and Reality... "Rocke also suggests that imagistic thinking
is often at the heart of creative thinking in all fields."

Paracelsus on the Unconscious http://t.co/GDlxV9FB

"Paracelsus is credited as providing the first clinical/scientific
mention of the unconscious." http://t.co/WfU23Nv6

"Resolute imagination is the beginning of all magical operations."
[attributed to?] Paracelsus http://t.co/240PNth3

"drawing philosophical conclusions by consulting intuitions may be
problematic bc those intuitions aren't consistently held across cultures"

Philosophy of Religious Experience http://t.co/A7JZdsf1

"These capacities for conscious deliberation, rational thinking and
self-control are not magical abilities." http://t.co/yxDowKbo

"Kripal: ...no way for parapsychologists to test+experiment on
aspects of paranormal experiences." http://t.co/Z40nOJFi via
@davidbmetcalfe

RT @davidbmetcalfe: Rice prof speaks on paranormal, consciousness in
lecture http://t.co/oZ2UXwev

Aquinas was able to reconcile the diversity of ideas with God’s
simplicity. The solution involves viewing ideas as nonbeings relative to
God

"Divine ideas are exemplar causes in the likeness of which God
produces creatures. Ideas belong to God’s practical knowledge."
review/Doolan

alchemical texts on Scribd http://t.co/xnSaTMUC

THERE are many points in alchymical history which have been purposely
passed over as affording nothing worthy of remark http://t.co/Mqlqefbe

RT @erik_davis: Thelema is magickal (de)construction. RT @t3dy:
Burroughs admired Crowley for his application of a...hermeneutic of susp...

Biblical Israel's History viewed from the inside and out.
http://t.co/yZyVUzg0

I think Burroughs admired Crowley for his application of a methodical
(if occult) hermeneutic of suspicion to the idea of Control.

beginning of a translation of John Dee's Mathematical Preface to
Euclid into readable contemporary English http://t.co/mgCZ5QPq

John Dee translated Euclid "that you may thereby recreate some
profit: and moreover to excite and stir up others learned, to do the like."

quotes about alchemical images http://t.co/6AErCm7Z

"...as alchemical authors say, speaking metaphorically." -Albertus Magnus

“ . . unlike the arbitrariness of linguistic signs, pictorial forms
can preserve original knowledge.” -Barbara Obrist on alchemical images

review of Torijano's "Solomon the Esoteric King" http://t.co/BmeMhIvl
#grimoire

Visualizing Angelic Visions http://t.co/oGN40f87
Kabbalistic / Qabalistic Tree of Life Diagrams http://t.co/k234yq44

RT @satfeed: Idries Shah: On Sufi Knowledge http://t.co/MlqOq0Km
"Plotinus’s heirarchy of Being is more famous than his thinking of
any unity at all as a kind of profusion." http://t.co/h5V60dpr The Cone

Melancholy Saturn on his Chariot http://t.co/3ZiXwgyD

The Cone of Plotinus: Ontologies of Profusion and Particularization
http://t.co/Oili2sIq

Diagramming Plotinus http://t.co/tmKXp6LH

Lab Full of Flasks http://t.co/D67g7Dbv

Mysterium Magnum: Michelangelo's Tono Doni http://t.co/04HFN71i

Ficino's translation of Plotinus on Numbers http://t.co/lJRvcxlq

Dogma vs. Ideation: Methods of Plotinus http://t.co/jJObnxeS

Plotinus proposes three Hypostases of God, each progressively
‘inferior’ but still fully divine: http://t.co/3XG43eOL
Porphyry and Plotinus (illuminated) http://t.co/XAIrVTUU

Dan Merkur on Active Imagination in Paracelsus http://t.co/IasmmIkN

@globalinfowatch check out Merkur's Gnosis on Paracelsus, or his
online papers such as "The Angelic Stone" and "Nectar" http://t.co/nPtBFuTU

Trithemius gives a functional account of an angel
http://t.co/KuwSquHP

Agrippa on Natural Magic in De Vanitate http://t.co/mOQFaXN2

Farinella on the influence of Proclus on Giordano Bruno's Art of
Memory http://t.co/ZcBcENfh

Michael Maier cites Ficino in his discussion of the philosopher's
stone http://t.co/LojgEVcX

Proclus and John Dee's Heiroglyphic Monad http://t.co/cdwIJAG0 an
excerpt from Calder's thesis

Alchemical emblems re-purposed as music theory comics
http://t.co/437BccmZ

John Dee on the powers of Mathematical Mind http://t.co/ynKZJ8XZ

a few scholarly passages on Giordano Bruno's Art of Memory
http://t.co/YWRu3aO3

Brian Copenhaver on the influence of Proclus on Ficino
http://t.co/2lsKRZJU

Paola Zambelli on Bruno as a reader of forbidden books
http://t.co/fdQ3lgrT Zambelli on H. C. Agrippa http://t.co/2boEziKc

notes from Johannes Reuchlin "On the art of the Kabbalah"
http://t.co/1YfwqrAW Reuchlin on techniques and names http://t.co/oIEjBcf5

Proclus, Elements of Theology, 109 propositions in Latin
http://t.co/qdECwoXE

Hakan: "by understanding how the different parts of the universe are
related, the wise man can become a magician." http://t.co/LzrW0sPi

Hakan on al-kindi "everything that existed in actuality in the
universe emitted rays in every direction"

Dee's copy of the Neoplatonist-Plotinus De rebus philosophicis libri
LIIII. in enneades sex distributi (London, Royal College of Physicians)

"Dee’s “Hieroglyphic Monad” became an instrument by which the
mind was able to transcend dianoetical reasoning..." http://t.co/LzrW0sPi

Writing about various nebulous concepts of magic, which I don't think
Pico intended to invoke, has been the most difficult thing about my MA

"That 'occult blind' you can’t figure out may not be intentional?
It just may be a mistake." http://t.co/pJwgR6sw via @sarahveale

Invocatio (formerly known as X, Y and Zen) http://t.co/UWIgOsNA a
blog mostly about western esotericism

"Miracles act to "prove" a particular revelation. But what do
paranormal experiences prove? Well, nothing yet..." Jeffrey Kripal

Paranormal America Interview with Jeffrey Kripal http://t.co/6qc0XUPv

Kripal
"I want this book to challenge the common assumptions people
make about profound, life-changing, mind-blowing mystical experiences."

"Pico did not intend to marry or conjoin the two [magic+kabbalah] but
rather to subjugate both to Christianity..." Idel,Kabbalah+Hermeticism

"Let us come to wisdom and union only by the way of intellectual
speculation or by sudden intuition, but not by magical actions" Y. Alemanno
Moshe Idel on Kabbalistic theurgy and Magic http://t.co/FEfOGUsf

2011-11-11 02:04:38
t3dy: RT @APassion4Jazz: " #Jazz #music is a language of the emotions."
Charles Mingus

RT @john_overholt: Fantastically useful online exhibition: Signs &
Symbols: Decoding Mediaeval and Renaissance Iconography
http://t.co/D ...

Dan Merkur on Dante and Gnosis http://t.co/kcMTPyGz problem of
Theosophy http://t.co/f0egRaUu Hermeticism vs Gnosticism
http://t.co/YPDA9scz

Alchemical texts were powerful tools for doing some kind of spiritual
operation, but not for comforting readers with shallow New Age truisms

I don't think alchemical texts were designed to deliver the kinds of
easy answers that these spiritual alchemists find, but to instruct+play

These spiritual alchemy readings that I'm complaining about really
argue that we should ignore alchemy texts, since we already know the plan
What haunts me about spiritual alchemy readings is that they do such
violence for the texts, while spuriously claiming to let them speak.

Khunrath, Maier, Fludd, the later Rosicrucian alchemists, were rooted
in the Paracelsian developments. Marvelous/orignal/novel developments.

Paracelsian alchemy was a new development. It wasn't a fulfillment of
ancient deep roots,but result of interface of gnosis/theosophy/science

A spiritual alchemy reading should get alchemical matter theory
right. It does no good to interpolate anachronistic modern spiritualities.

Since alchemical matter theory was not nonsensical, but in fact a
sophisticated set of signs+discourse practices, this is where to start.

The spiritual alchemy lineage of Atwood-Silberer-Jung is based on
radical assumption that alchemical matter theory was nonsense. Not true.

Problematic "Spiritual Alchemy" readings tend to rely on implicit
anti-science bias to persuade their victims. Alchemists weren't anti-sci.!

Alchemy as an art/science was primarily concerned with generating
knowledge about matter. Spiritual metaphors are based on that knowledge.

The crucial point I'd like to make about "Alchemical Spirituality" is
that it's stranger than even obscurantist interpreters claim it to be.

Historians of Science aren't stripping spirituality/symbolism away
from alchemy. However, "spiritual alchemy" strips the art/science aspect.

Fundamentals of Symbolism Part II From the Renaissance to Modern
Times http://t.co/RsTZePqn discusses Pico, Ficino, Plotinus

Alchemy of the Sun (updated) http://t.co/m6x4RssI
Neoplatonist Spectrum of Consciousness diagram http://t.co/zQy7OuRf

Lesser-Known Intellectual Trends in the Early Renaissance: Humanism,
Neo-Platonism, Hermeticism http://t.co/ywknXvYL

Metaphors of Mixture in Neoplatonism http://t.co/pghXgjsv Gersh, From
Iamblichus to Eriugena

Triumph of Aquinas, and a link to Iconography of St. Thomas
http://t.co/oIqBClYh

Routes of Mystical Traditions: Antiquity to St. Teresa of Avila
http://t.co/uz5d1RNP

I can't figure out where Neoplatonism comes into this article on
"Neoplatonism and Alchemy" http://t.co/OygLPMGi cool chakra diagrams though

Islamic Platonists and Neoplatonists http://t.co/FYukXt48

Diagram of Renaissance Esotericists influenced by Neoplatonism
http://t.co/Bcpjo9z8

Arthur Versluis on the "sympathetic empiricism" approach to the study
of Esotericism and Mysticism http://t.co/ej2F6JqY

"at minimum, the study of esotericism,+in particular mysticism,
requires some degree of imaginative participation in what one is
studying"AV

Ficino on the Sight of the Beloved (longer version)
http://t.co/sRDr7qnc posts tagged Ficino on the excellent Reditus
http://t.co/kddKUAfP

"It always happens that lovers fear and worship in some way the sight
of the beloved." -Marsilio Ficino, commentary on Plato's Symposium

Merkur on Dante and Angels, Allegory, encounters between Gnosis and
Platonism http://t.co/kcMTPyGz

Merkur on the Problem of Theosophy for Christian Mysticism
http://t.co/f0egRaUu

Eriugena: East and West http://t.co/jmos3Mqi

"Eriugena had successfully pushed Platonism about as far as it could
go without turning into a theosophy." Daniel Merkur, Gnosis p.241

Paracelsus invented not only spiritual alchemy but medical
chemistry.
Gnostic trends have been recognized in his thought from 16th c.
onward

Merkur: "The tradition of spiritual alchemy...originated when
Ficino's
concept of ethereal bodies was blended w/the alchemy of
quintessence"

Introduction to the Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism: interview with
Daniel C. Matt (translator of the Zohar) http://t.co/7x0HPrUN

Scholarly articles on Alchemy http://t.co/OsHjt4JC

Geoffrey McVey, Syracuse University, Rethinking the Magic of Giordano
Bruno (anybody know how to get ahold of this text?)

Pico della Mirandola and Henry of Ghent http://t.co/ihl5qCPl
(clippings from an Amos Edelheit paper)

Henry of Ghent Blog http://t.co/n1O2ZVSa All things pertaining to the
solemn doctor

Churton claims that Crowley was “a major thinker, as significant as Freud or Jung”.

as Tobias Churton puts it, without irony, “Crowley wanted to help us” (ibid)

review of recent Aleister Crowley biographies by Kaczynski and
Churton http://t.co/eaheFwyD

RT @VesselofHermes: Honey & the Elements http://t.co/PH7nPfHy

Alchemical Caves http://t.co/lbXv6pqK Saturn Sigils
http://t.co/BxWgWGLn Lion http://t.co/01mN7NHB Tree of Life
http://t.co/k234yq44

Alchemical and Esoteric tweets archive http://t.co/Vn9Y43bb

Want to do a PhD on Western esotericism? Two vacancies in Amsterdam
http://t.co/DyfJImg9

Idealism in the West Podcast on Renaissance Platonists Marsilio
Ficino and Pico della Mirandola http://t.co/2MSXy4xu

"The death of his daughter grieved Crowley." -biographer Lawrence
Sutin http://t.co/ANC8KPWy

Is "forging" a check an alchemical operation?

RT @eliothahn: RT @HermeticLibrary Renaissance Neo-Platonism
http://t.co/cL8kmbaO

An excellent podcast series by David Beardsley covers the history of
Platonic Idealism in the West http://t.co/pDoCMvXr Socrates to T.Taylor

RT @BobDobbs_: Codex Seraphinianus: semi-licit copy of a
semi-legendary book of the weird http://t.co/B2FqAXXR
"...magic spells are not mere metaphors for encryption schemes." Erik
Davis,
Magic, Memory,+the Angels of Information http://t.co/EcIUtuLV

"spaces of allegory remain fundamentally phantasmic+metamorphic, as
if the very rigidity of their codes produces a surreal countermovement."

"Such allegorical knowledge maps take an interesting turn
when they become allegorical narratives." http://t.co/EcIUtuLV

"By doing certain things certain results follow..." -Aleister
Crowley, Liber O http://t.co/Ou3Ge2nl (appended to Magick in Theory
+Practice)

"It is immaterial whether they exist or not. By doing certain things,
certain results follow..." Crowley on gamification of magical entities

syllabus for Gordan Djurdjevic's course on Western Esotericism
http://t.co/fBOM2IzP

Abraham Abulafia stars in Swiss exhibit on Comparative
Mysticism:
http://t.co/F3foMBoP
via @avisolo

alchemical cutup of Voynich Manuscript, Ripley Scroll, Rosarium
Philosophorum http://t.co/ge0IDkIf

Rosarium Philosophorum http://t.co/72C3cEkU

The Ripley Scroll http://t.co/lP0UwMvE #Alchemy

Cramer's Emblems http://t.co/Mxl5YFC7 #alchemy

Make the birds fly http://t.co/UxNS5S2N

Green Lion Devouring The Sun -- Five Versions http://t.co/qffuEhxJ

Alchemical Heraldry from Pauvert http://t.co/75i2Gb2a

lovely phoenix illustration on The English Emblem Book Project
http://t.co/toGD1D18

Alan Moore reads "Robert Anton Wilson" http://t.co/FqYteOg2 via @CatVincent

Psychology's Magician (on Carl Jung) http://t.co/7oQEAau8

Renaissance Magic at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy http://t.co/s3lXTLd8

Magic, by Tanya Luhrmann http://t.co/DlAsFQ6s

Pico's angelology is interesting, and perhaps even philosophically shocking, but for reasons other than his enthusiasm for magic+kabbalah.

Pretty much everything Pico had to say about angelology had nothing to do with his (equally interesting!) concept of magic.

Pico took very seriously the notion that any post-Biblical figure's philosophizing was up for debate. This debate was a religious project.

Pico dared to criticize even Pseudo-Dionysius. He's working post-Aquinas, taking those thomistic/scholastic PsD. modifications into account.

I think it's pretty clear that even if we go with the most skeptical interpretation of Agrippa, a Pseudo-Dionysian theology underlies it all

Pico in being so ruthlessly critical of Ficino obviously misses much of value, but as a result carves out a unique territory for his new RM.

Each of the Renaissance Magicians seems to be misinterpreting the other RMs he's reading, but in good magical faith.

I want to know more about how Agrippa understood Trithemius. How did these guys manage to make such a profound impact on each other so fast?

Noel Brann gets it right with his "Magical Theology" approach to Trithemius, but it's clear that he's running into lots of problems.

Keeping in mind the errors of Frances Yates, I think she was absolutely correct to emphasize problem of "religious magic"/"magical religion"

Same goes for Agrippa's reading of Pico/Reuchlin. They share a magical religious faith but differ in their scientific method.

Understanding Pico's influence on Reuchlin is tricky, since he moves in such a different direction. We should compare their versions of PsD.

The problem with looking at "Christian Cabala" as simple succession from Pico on is that at each step of the way it gets radically refocused

Agrippa followed Pico in applying a critical method to the magic tradition of Ficino, but he was working to purify that same religious magic

For renaissance magicians like Ficino+Pico, the exaltation of the magus was a contemplative experience of the glory of God, not a power trip

"Crowley defended Rodin against the critical backlash+subsequently befriended the sculptor a few years later... published a collaboration"

RT @gary_singh: Rodin and America: Influence and Adaptation | Silicon Alleys | Metro Newspapers http://t.co/mjRIb3nC #esoteric #crowley ...

RT @VesselofHermes: Stages of Ascension in Hermetic Rebirth, Dan Merkur, University of Toronto http://t.co/d0xmzyV5 via @eglinski

Why study Renaissance Magic http://t.co/r8BFql05 notes from a religious studies grad student

Hymn-Singing from Plethon to Ficino (subjective to theurgic?) http://t.co/GwfT3J1v

Magic Square: SATOR AREPO TENET OPERA ROTAS (or rotate your own)

Michael Keaton should play Giordano Bruno. A Roman Lead Curse Tablet http://t.co/t605n30d

It's the Great Cthulhu, Charles Dexter http://t.co/rOagQgFc via some kind soul whose handle I misplaced on the clipboard

Schuon on Islamic Esotericism/Sufism http://t.co/xaUk5ZKG via "Henry Corbin" on Facebook

I'm quite looking forward to Egil Asprem's "Arguing with Angels: Enochian Magic+Modern Occulture" due in May. http://t.co/q6ZMdkER

Walker: "Ficino is the earliest Renaissance writer I know of to treat the effects of music seriously and practically." http://t.co/t76uAQcu

Ficino to Pico in a letter, "What wonderful things! A work beyond belief to those who have lost the memory of truth."

Szonyi: Contexts for Dee's Angel Magic http://t.co/sPCalFLb

important research on Dee+grimoire magic in Clucas' interdisciplinary studies http://t.co/FLiP4scu

very excited, Laus Platonici Philosophi: Marsilio Ficino and his
Influence (2011) Edited by Stephen Clucas, Peter J. Forshaw and Valery Rees

@DebHarkness did groundbreaking research into Dee's
Angelology -- check out Claire Fanger's review http://t.co/1jtSs380