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Margaret Jacob
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“The repudiation of magic on the part of Enlinghtenment radicals occured simultaneously with their adherence to a pantheistic naturalism that had once been the prevailing philosophy of Renaissance adepts and magi. This extraordinary blending of science and mysticism makes historical sense only if we realize that seventeenth-century science at its very origins possessed certain magical associations. (p. 6)”
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“Bruno's new religion of nature rested upon a pantheistic understanding of the universe. His infinite universe contained innumerable worlds, and its matter is eternally in motion. Bruno was the first philosopher to speculate seriously aboutthe possibility of life on other planets, and he believed nature to be one vast continuum wherein all life is constantly created and transformed.”
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“This so-called 'dark side' of Renaissance humanism, that is the search of an immediate comprehensive understanding of nature, encouraged magical and animistic speculations, in conjunction with the extreme individualism so characteristic of the magician. This agressive self-confidence found expression in the formulation of bold and ingenious theories about the historical origins of true wisdom, locating it in pre-Christian times. The paganizing and anti-Christian tendencies within this magical Neo-Platonism were all too clear, and its devotees went on, in some cases, to embrace Cabalistic learning or to search the supposedly ancient writings of the Egyptian priest, Hermes Trismegistus, for the key to this ancient wisdom, for gnosis, an immediate and direct comprehension that would unlock the secrets of nature.”
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“Bruno lionized the pagan deities, asembled them at banquets, applauded their open sensuality and used them as mouthpieces for his reforming philosophy. Within the Hermetic tradition, the pagan deity, Mercury, was in fact believed to be a Roman representation of Hermes, and Minerva, the goddess of wisdom, assisted Mercury and Jupiter in the work of remorming the heavens. Both deities figure prominently in Bruno's pagan imagery, and early in the eighteenth century they return as standard bearers for the Knight of Jubilation, the secret society of republicans and pantheists who will figure so prominently in the first generation of Radical Enlightenment. Then, as with Bruno, this championing of the pagans was part of a larger attempt to fashion an anti-Christian stance that sought to repudiate ethics as well as to undermine the orthodox concept of the trascendent deity. (p. 7)”
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