As I have shown in Chapter One, researchers have spent a great deal of time speculating on Pico’s “occult sources” but have neglected the direct Christian source in Dionysius that helps explain the theory of religious acts that characterizes his “provocative theology.” In this chapter I will take a different look at the pagan Neoplatonic sources that have been mistaken for occult sources, while Pico in fact saw Iamblichus and Proclus as theological sources. Iamblichus’ theory of theurgy is not a... read more
