Orphic Hermetic Theurgy in Marsilio Ficino (part 1)

Orphic Hermetic Theurgy in Marsilio Ficino (part 1) 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) 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. ''(2) 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. (3) 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. (4) 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. Orphic Hermetic Theurgy in Marsilio Ficino (part 1) Víctor. Arturo. Cabello. Reyes. Bibliography: 1. Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, The Western Esoteric Traditions, Oxford University Press, 2008, 80. 2. Algis Uzdavinys, Philosophy and Theurgy, Sophia Perennis, USA, 2010, 72. 3. Walter Burkert; Babylon, Memphis, Persepolis, Harvard University Press, 2004, 108-109. 4. Chaldean Oracles, fr. 34,37 and fr. 148.