Wing II
The Figures
TL;DR
Gods, translators, magi, forgers and professors — the tradition is a relay of people. Start with the runner who never existed.
- Hermes TrismegistusThrice-great, never born: how a god became an author.
- ThothThe Egyptian root: scribe of the gods, weigher of hearts.
- Zosimos of PanopolisThe first historical alchemist.
- Marsilio FicinoThe translator who lit the Renaissance fuse.
- Pico della MirandolaThe undelivered manifesto.
- Lodovico LazzarelliThe purest Hermeticist you’ve never heard of.
- Giordano BrunoBurned — but not for what you think.
- John DeeThe queen’s magus.
- G.R.S. MeadThe Victorian who translated Hermes for the occult age.
- Frances YatesThe historian who took magic seriously — and overreached.