“The Moon Within: Astral Therapy and Theurgy in the Renaissance” with Leonard George.
Florentine polymath Marsilio Ficino is a towering figure in the history of esotericism. After an absence of many centuries, he brought back to European consciousness the complete works of Plato, the teachings of Plotinus, Iamblichus and other antique sages, and the Corpus Hermeticum. Inspired by these sources, as well as the Latin Picatrix and al-Kindī’s De Radiis, he crafted a system of astrological diagnosis and therapy centered on the faculty of imagination, the Moon Within. Ficino also devised new approaches to theurgy, including a means to create daimonic life.