pickI bought this in 2013 in an occult science phase, started it in Dec. and finished last night. Pages of Hermetic magic, Latin untranslated, and the odd life of G Bruno and his spiritual infinite universe and mind, with memory, containing all things. He was burned in Rome in 1600.
The link between the drives of the metaphysical perspectives of religion, magic, and science may be a kind of enlightenment moment. Bruno might make a nice center point.
Writings attributed to Hermes Trismegistus, which were considered ancient Wisdom. (The writings are a little younger than most New Testament writing, but no one knew that in the 1400‘s.) Ficino translated this for the Medici‘s and came up with a Hermetic magic. Pico della Mirandola merged it into Jewish Cabalism, creating a mystic religious magic, and a pope blessed it (!) before Pico died (age 31) - our antiquarian occult foundations.
I‘ve wanted to read this for years. Finally started (and the cat approves)
Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition | 
