Among the models of the traditional Wisdom, the one of the Hermetic
Christian Cabala was the inspiration of the true Renaissance of 15th century,
which going back to the medieval and ancient sources diffuses until the
17th century, expressing through the language of the intermediary symbols
of the knowledge, the harmony present in the traditional egyptian, hebrew,
greek, christian-latin and arabian forms.
Times fed by the spirit of the concord, generator of a light that, by locating
beyond the characters that of each of those forms, harmonizes them in a
whole, from which the particular forms of each of them are legitimated.
Becoming into free expression of a true reality, that the sciences and
the arts contributed to express, for they were recognized as transmitters
of the muses. Indicator lights that outflank the way back of the being
to themselves, to the true primordial origin.
Model that crystallized in Florence, where MARSILIO FICINO AND GIOVANNI
PICO DELLA MIRANDOLA allowing the translation and the dialogue, shed the
ancient egyptian, hebrew and greek wisdom to the latin, showing the diverse
names with which each tradition refers to the same principles.
RAMON LLULL constituted one of the bridges that contributed to the generation
of the christian and latin Cabala in the Circle of Florence. This Circle
was center in the platonic academy, space for fertile “Dialogue” among
traditions, re-inaugurated by Cosmo of Medici soon after the arrival of
Gemistus Plethon from Byzantium, who came with the greek language scripts
that were kept there. They are the scripts of Hermes Trismegistus, Plato,
as well as Jamblichus, Proclus and Porphyrius among others. Texts of the
Alexandrine neo-platonic, receptor of the ancient persian, chaldean and
egyptian traditions, that was going to be translated mostly by Marsilio
Ficino, Great Master of the Academy of Florence, Circle to which Giovanni
Pico Della Mirandola also belonged. |