From Magic to Science and Back Again
Pico della Mirandola, the Supreme Magus of the Occult Imperium
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Part One: Tracking the Progression from Papal Occultism to Freemasonry, and from Magic to Science and Back Again
“The profound significance of Pico della Mirandola in the history of humanity can hardly be overestimated. He it was who first boldly formulated a new position for European man, man as Magus using both Magia and Cabala to act upon the world, to control his destiny by science. And in Pico, the organic link with religion of the emergence of the Magus can be studied at its source.”
—Frances A. Yates [ 1 ]
This study concerns the pre-Christian root of twilight language incantation, and the magic and paganism which is nearly entirely in charge of the contemporary western world.
I. Catholics are taught to believe the origin of this arcana is in Freemasonry. This is an error predicated on ignorance of the fact that Freemasonry grew out of Rosicrucianism.
II. Rosicrucianism in turn arose from the mental virus of the Hermeticism and Kabbalism which was introduced to the West by the Renaissance papal Church itself, and sustained by papal forces across the centuries.
The reader may wish to pause for a moment to ponder these two momentous truths of suppressed revisionist history.
The myth that Masonry is a free-spirited alternative to “popery” is a counter-factual etched in the minds of the West’s intellects like a corpse encased in concrete.
We will view these subjects through the lens of the life of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494, known as “Pico”), who, though largely unknown to the masses in our time, is magnitudes above Leonard da Vinci, Giordano Bruno, Francis Bacon, Isaac Newton or any other “giant” of the Renaissance and “Enlightenment” in terms of the inauguration within scientism of the operation of man-playing-God. Those three words synthesize the essence of western occultism, of the scientist as magus. [2 ]
The Church of Rome was one of the principal operating engineers of this diabolism from the 15th century until the dawn of Freemasonry.
Masonic organizations owe their existence to the Renaissance papalism they officially decry.
The key to this mystery of history is Pico della Mirandola.
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