Occult Infiltration of the Catholic Church Part 1: Marsilio Ficino, the Medici Family, Magic and Occult Symbolism in the Vatican

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In this episode we cover the curious tale of Marsilio Ficino who translated the Corpus Herticum into Latin at the behest of his patron Cosimo de' Medici. We look at his magical belief system and how he reconciled this alongside his Catholicism. We also touch on how Ficino helped to pioneer the philosophy of religious syncretism and ask the question of whether or not Ficino could have laid some of the groundwork for ecumenism in the Catholic church. Also discussed is some of the occult imagery that exists in the Vatican. So if you have any interest in the Catholic Church, Hermeticism, the occult, the House of Medici or strangeness in general this may be the podcast for you

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