This attitude was not unrelated to the excessive separation...

This attitude was not unrelated to the excessive separation of the spirit from the flesh in official Christian theology even if this chasm was filled by the Hermetic tradition, especially its alchemical aspect, and affected even the daily life of the medieval community through the craft guilds.

The “angelism” of medieval theology, although containing a profound truth, considered only one aspect of the traditional anthrōpos, allowing the rebellion against such a view by those who thought that in order to discover the spiritual significance of nature and the positive significance of the body, they had to deny the medieval concept of man.

The Renaissance cult of the body, even if by some freak of history it had manifested itself in India, could not have been opposed to Hinduism in the same way that it was opposed to Christianity in the West. The other elements which brought about the destruction of the image of pontifical man and helped the birth of that Promethean rebel…