stackyFACTSFicino was convinced he was suffering from a deep melancholy induced by the grim planet Saturn.
Ficino was convinced he was suffering from a deep melancholy induced by the grim planet Saturn. Drawing on the Corpus Hermeticum and Arabic magic texts, he developed a system of natural magic that treated cosmic resonance like a science. By wearing specific colors, burning planetary incenses, and singing mathematically precise hymns, Ficino believed you could act as a human antenna, tuning out Saturn's necrotic static and broadcasting the life-affirming frequencies of Jupiter.
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