Ficino

 

Ficino

Víctor. Arturo. Cabello. Reyes.

Man is Hieroglyphic Monad in himself=Sun-Moon-4 Elements in Cross+ and Bi-polar Fire.

(GOBIN)

"Ficino was the greatest Florentine philosopher and metaphysician in the proper sense of the word."

(Paul Oskar Kristeller)

Divine Theurgy -acting on the gods- or, that difficult, immaculate and pure work of approach, transmission, transformation and dissemination in a neat direction to the correct path of spiritual ascension, has in the Master Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499) a genuine exponent and educated follower.

There is an ancient and ancient Divine Operation or primordial tradition.

Consequently, it is an incorruptible Old Wisdom = (Prisca theologia), jealously guarded, harshly maintained and firmly held as a beautiful Golden Chain through a close Ancient, Initiatic and Secret ritual and Ceremonial Theurgical relationship.

In this way, it is a spiritual relationship with certain beings and spirits related to the same origin of the Primordial Origin of the Divine Light.

In reality that Ancestral Truth is –essentially- an Esoteric, Hermetic, Kabbalistic Tradition of noble and secure Orphic roots.

Direct source of the Primordial Tradition that spiritually 'binds' that legendary Pure Talismanic Theurgic Magic of Divine Operation.

The one that manages to be able to approach the genuine process of transformation and ascension in a leisurely way.

However, it is fair to suppose that all those sublime and sweet

characteristics of the divine bonds, uttered between the chants and Theurgical Magic Spells of proven Primordial Secret Revelation, are gathered in it.

Deep down, we can say, it is immaculate Ancestral Wisdom, framed within a proven and rigorous process of assimilation and reception.

Old and Ancestral enviable model of knowledge intermediary tradition.

Or, better to say, that it is a whole body of initiatory and mysterious ideas, structured in fine patterns and delicate congruent and very Secret teachings.

Undoubtedly, they are the ones who can, among their many experimental forms, even try to approach the imitation and reconstruction of the primordial and archetypal divine actions.

In the same way, they are remnants of millenary traditions received directly, carefully selected through the exclusive and hierarchical mediation of powerful astral divinities.

“Ficino spoke of the magus in the same terms as his priest-physician. Magic is not a profane cultivation of demons but captures the heavenly gifts hidden in natural objects for the promotion of health. It is 'natural magic' that requires a superior mind in which celestial and earthly elements are combined and perfectly balanced.''(1)

(Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, The Western Esoteric Traditions, Oxford University Press, 2008, 80)

For Master Ficino's spirituality, there was a single safe, rigorous and theurgical sacramental way, -Pansophia- of strong assimilation and reception of the seminal-Solar ideas from the divinity.

That ORPHIC and PYTHAGORICAL Path is the Wisdom of the Ancient Tradition.

Thread of Gold, which leads the spirit through the arduous work of inner purity along the unknown and luminous path of Solar Ascension.

For Ficino, there was that traditional reception power that as a magical energy breath and vibration = HEKA.

Thanks to him, it is possible to access it, through theurgical work.

Assimilating and crossing the rivers or pulsations of a secret numerical universal rhythm of cosmic harmonic correspondences and astral analogies.

An Enigmatic Solar and Immanent and Transcendent language in the FATHER-SOURCE or ALL and First Transcendent Fire.

Orpheus, the mythical founder of philosophical initiations in the form of mysteries, 'brings together a host of older Eastern traditions, Akkadian, Hurrite-Hittite, and Egyptian most of all,' as Burkert observes. ''

(Algis Uzdavinys, Philosophy and Theurgy, Sophia Perennis, USA, 2010, 72)

This Millennial and Ancestral Solar Metaphysical Cult –anti-Saturnian-, revives with Ficino.

It is truly the very formal structure of a skilled and authentic scholarly ritual and theological body of cultivated priest magicians.

Theurgists and initiates in the arcane patterns of the esoteric orphic chants.

Or, in the philosophical speculation of; "Descensus and ascensio" emerged from the escapist Sacred Fire.

(Walter Burkert; Babylon, Memphis, Persepolis, Harvard University Press, 2004, 108-109)

Indeed, Ficino's spiritual philosophy is a glorious system and a subtle attempt to imitate divine light.

The one that manages to radiate and manifest itself constantly and powerful from the FLOWER OF FIRE.

(Chaldean Oracles, fr. 34,37 and fr. 148)

Possibly it is admissible to access it and try to “get it”, by means of rigorous and very harsh effective and constant practices of ritual-katharmoi purification.

Protected and elaborated in complicated rites-teletai-of prudent and cautious theurgy.

It is all a systematic journey of ritual and initiatory elevation in the glorious and solar search for the hidden light.

Entirely established by means of symbols and sacred rites enshrined in strict cultic soteriological patterns, strictly defined.

We can say that the sensitive and educated thought of Ficinian spiritual force, follows a Perennial Ancestral tradition.

The one that proposes an integral vision of the man-world, with very strong cosmic affinities of deep magical nature.

To a great extent, it is a totally harmonious integrative vision, whose essential function is to be able to achieve the appropriate tools to access through personal, rational and intellectual imagination and enlightenment, towards the maximum consciousness and the unique and exclusive expression of self-consciousness.

We must warn; Ficino was a Catholic priest and canon of the Cathedral of Florence, with an enviable handling and total knowledge of the reciprocal influences of astrology of origin and of the Orphic tradition or Arcana Discipline.

(De vita, 1489)

"The name of Orfeo was associated with astrological knowledge and had become an authority in this field already in Roman imperial times."

(Raquel Martín Hernández, Orfeo y Los Magos, Abada Editores, Spain, 2010,76-82)

After all, for him, life was a trajectory of origin and recurrent and immortal astrological dimension of the soul as a way of ascent - with its two wings, will and intellect - internal and contemplative towards the privileged and exclusive path of divinity.

(P.O. Kristeller, Eight Italian Renaissance Philosophers, New York, Columbia University, 1964, 65-68)

However, the soul must go through a hermetic process of astrological descent from sphere to sphere descending and then ascending.

Whose final goal is the recovery or mastery of the original state of SOLAR spiritual regeneration.

All of this, after achieving "loosening through the harmonious machinery of the spheres"

(Poimandres I, 14) is that it occurs in the duality of man-male and female.

It is a whole Hermetic-Alchemical process of Astrological and personal purification-from the element Lead to Gold.

To acquire and seal again the glorified consciousness of the initial initiatory path almost lost.

'That is why, unique of all beings living on earth, man is double: mortal by the body, immortal by the essential Man.

(Poimandres I, 15)

After all, it is that man of the Cosmos who possesses in his being the Essence and Seed itself of the Structure and Sound Arithmosophy of the Cosmos.

The Master of the Flower Jacob Boehme knew him as' 'Signature RERUM' = trace or mark of the Cosmos.

And it is the same, who must try to know through the absolute mastery of number, music and the appropriate spiritual theurgic philosophy, achieve the achievable PHILOSOPHICAL WAY OF LIFE to return towards unification with the lost home of the infinite SOLAR universe.

That is the meaning of the journey to the cosmic seed or lyre.

Whose flower seed -FLOWER OF FIRE-resides and inhabits- "having placed in the heart"; fr.95- deep and delicate in your own heart.

So, the earth is simply a geometric center.

But the organic vital alchemical center is the powerful and life-giving most sacred fire of the GOLDEN SUN.

"He firmly fixed (the solar fire) in the place of the heart."

(Fragments: fr. 58, Chaldean Oracles)

Only through contemplation and meditation along with the practice of PRAYER and music.

Or, the Orphic songs received and to be received; -like Master Ficino-, they are the appropriate tools for the healthy development of our spiritual faculties.

Through the constant purification of moral thoughts and feelings together with a strict diet of pure nutrition, the gradual ascent to the transcendental world of the source and origin of the ALL = UNIVERSAL LOVE can be achieved.

(P.O. Kristeller, Renaissance Thought and the Arts, Princeton University Press, 1990,94-95)

Likewise, only through a genuine, rigorous and pure regimen of spiritual exercises can the personal experience - not for everyone - of the achievement of gradual contemplative ascension be attained.

Active principle of the Dignity of Man.

With its historical successes and failures, Ficino believed in the existence of a strong Tradition-Philosophia Perennis, prior to Plato and Socrates, which maintained and nurtured the spiritual substrate of their philosophical and esoteric teachings and writings = Hermes, Zoroaster, Orpheus, Pythagoras and the Chaldean Oracles.

There is in Ficinian thought, certain airs of musicality and Orphic magic covered with tints and gleams of a very old shamanism with Solar tendencies.

In this way, musical art is another fundamental aspect to achieve spiritual union and harmony (spiritus mundi), removing from us all melancholic SATURNAL and sad spirit and being able to restore in us all divine things in complete fusion with the efficient method of theurgical analogy. and ritual.

Thus, this magical-musical language is produced by means of orphic and oracular chants and the power of the voice emitted between sounds and physical and expressive gestures of high sacred content.

(M. Ficino, De Triplici Vita, Florence, 1498, Opera Omnia, 2 vols. Basel, 1576, p.493, 568, 651 in D..P Walker, 2003, 1-5; see in detail De Vita coelitus comparanda de Ficino)

In fact, the Universe is built according to harmonic geometric and mathematical proportions between the macrocosm and the microcosm.

Proportions that have their essential seat in the solar nature of man himself as a vibrant Circuit or Musical Microcosm.

Man is Hieroglyphic Monad in himself=Sun-Moon-4 Elements in Cross+ and Bi-polar Fire. (GOBIN)

We must take care of what we hear and be more selective with the sounds that enter our auditory system.

And indeed, these mathematical proportions are in the body like a pentagonal star of Pythagorean harmonic proportions.

Hence, it is here that the theurgical ancestral magical wisdom enters-Theion ergon = work of the gods- to teach man that also in plants, food and medicines, there is that power of invocation and celestial influences.

Those that can affect and transform the very nature of man according to the way in which this hidden and divine power of things is worked and dominated.

In this way, it is a very Old Combinatorial Art that was taught and learned at the Academy of Florence and that recognizes the hidden principles and the influence of the stars in everything.

(Gregory Shaw, Theurgy and the Soul, The Pennsylvania State University, 1995, 4 -8)

A significant aspect is that the sage Giovanni Pico, in his Orphic Conclusions, also mentions the powerful effective natural magic of the Orphic hymns and songs.

“Apart from those Orphic Hymns which are addressed to planetary deities, Ficino would probably have sung other Orphic fragments, other ancient prayer TO THE SUN… ''

(DP Walker, Spiritual and Demonic Magic from Ficino to Campanella, The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003, p. 23)

It should be noted that The Path of the Ancient Tradition is also the Way and the Way that places the initiate on the path of deep recognition of a principle of dignity and immortality, and in the supreme

glorification of that solar essence of the soul of men = "Magnum Miraculum est homo ... ''

(Asclepius 6, in the Corpus Hermeticum)

Possibly, some dignity must remain after that tremendous cosmological and soteriological scenario of the fall of the good old Adam.

Following Orpheus and his sacred magic theurgy was for Ficino to seek the best and fruitful of tradition.

And that was confirmed by the words of the Master Proclus:

"All Greek theology proceeds from the mystical doctrine of Orpheus."

(Proclus, In Platonis theologian I)

Aglaofemo, Pythagoras, Orpheus, Plato and Iamblichus, -who affirms that Pythagoras, acquires his wisdom from the Orphic traditions-somehow securely links of the same initiation chain of SUNLIGHT.

Macrobius also believed that all the gods of Olympus were emanations or manifestations of the Sun.

(Girolamo Aleandro, Antigua tabulae explicatio, 9.44, (1616)

It would seem that this sacred magic invites us to follow the law of planetary secret correspondences and symmetries-Arcani nodis = Arcane knots-.

It is there that the Prudent Theurgist-Magician is able to "smell" revives and capture in each essence, color, sound and taste, the substantial aromas of cosmic influences.

In that way he can be said, without hesitation, as the prestigious researcher and occult scholar Carl. G. Jung stated:

“I do not believe; I Know=Yo lo se''.

"Noli vana sectari et temous perdere nugis nihil proficientibus"

(Do not look for vain things or waste your time in useless trifles).

A fraternal hug from Luz=LUX.

Man is Hieroglyphic Monad in himself=Sun-Moon-4 Elements in Cross+ and Bi-polar Fire.

(Gobin)

Orphic Hermetic Theurgy in Marsilio Ficino

Víctor. Arturo. Cabello. Reyes.