HIST 2C Lecture 12: Lecture 12
Document Summary
These paintings and primavera shows revival of pagan myth and classics and mysteries. Goddess that stood in the center of primavera. Appears out of floor of cathedral of sienna. Renaissance (hermetic) magus (magician) dressed with a kind of pointed hat. Giving wisdom with other wise muslims and christians. Renaissance humanism with questions of magic, hermeticism, alchemy, astrology is from all traditions. Through mysteries that are bridges that lead from world of matter to world of soul. Timaeus plato writes about the idea of the world having a soul. The soul is a bridge between this world and the next (fifth essence) Eat and listen to certain thing to connect to this essence and to understand it. Hermetist said that everything in the world is filled with magic. Use of herbs and talisman will bring good things. In middle ages, there are 2 significant works of magic. Circulated w/ great secret cuz of its power.
