Description / Insight
The Hermetic revival fuses Christian mysticism, Platonic philosophy, Egyptian cosmology, and early scientific curiosity into a single vision:
the unity of all things through correspondence — as above, so below.
In Ficino’s translation, humanity is not fallen but divinely creative, a bridge between heaven and earth.
Alchemy, astrology, music, and medicine are reinterpreted as languages of the same living intelligence.
Consciousness Note
This period restores the thread broken at Eleusis and the Academy: direct contact between intellect and spirit, science and revelation.
It reopens the dialogue between opposites, laying the foundation for both modern science and esoteric philosophy.
The Renaissance becomes not just a rebirth of art, but a recollection of the ancient unity between knowing and being.