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Here's a significant but little-known work in the history of astrology: the infamous Dominican Friar Girolamo Savonarola's 'The Futility and Superstition of the Traditions of Astrology' which is a brief anti-astrological polemic from 1497 during the Florentine Renaissance, and inspired by Pico della Mirandola's 'Against Divinatory Astrology.' It is taken from Savonarola's larger work 'The Triumph on the Cross' which is a collection of theological and polemical writings laying out his position on the reasonableness of the Catholic faith in the face of accusations of heresy and schism by Pope Alexander VI (a.k.a. Rodrigo Borgia).
Translated by John Proctor, 1901
Read by Dan Attrell
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Here's a significant but little-known work in the history of astrology: the infamous Dominican Friar Girolamo Savonarola's 'The Futility and Superstition of the Traditions of Astrology' which is a brief anti-astrological polemic from 1497 during the Florentine Renaissance, and inspired by Pico della Mirandola's 'Against Divinatory Astrology.' It is taken from Savonarola's larger work 'The Triumph on the Cross' which is a collection of theological and polemical writings laying out his position on the reasonableness of the Catholic faith in the face of accusations of heresy and schism by Pope Alexander VI (a.k.a. Rodrigo Borgia).
Translated by John Proctor, 1901
Read by Dan Attrell
#history #religiousstudies #philosophy #freewill #astrology #esotericism #renaissance #catholic #catholicism #heresy #medievalstudies #dominican #friars
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- Picatrix: A Medieval Treatise on Astral Magic (PSU Press, 2019) amzn.to/3LnAEse (affiliate link)
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![Archaeology of Ancient Magic and Ritual Practice [Dr. Kirsten Dzwiza Interview]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Xv4slIp1O_g/hqdefault.jpg "Archaeology of Ancient Magic and Ritual Practice [Dr. Kirsten Dzwiza Interview]
This is an interview with Dr. Kirsten Dzwiza about her work on the archaeology of ancient magic, particularly drawn from the material culture of Ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome.
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Dr. Dan Attrell, Dr. Kirsten Dzwiza, and Dr. David Porreca
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![Gnostic Cosmology and the Apocryphon of John [Lecture]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/aSp5TYEDYwU/hqdefault.jpg "Gnostic Cosmology and the Apocryphon of John [Lecture]
This is a re-recorded version of an older talk by Dan Attrell entitled What Athens Has Got To Do With Jerusalem: The Marriage of Greek and Jewish Themes in the Apocryphon of John
Artwork: Nicholas Roerich - Mother of the World
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