Matthew LaCroix

And what does that lead to in Europe?

The great Renaissance, the greatest explosion of culture and understanding that we ever had during that time period.

Now the story behind how it was destroyed, most people don't know.

It's very sad.

Actually, there was a philosopher who was very well respected and,

His name was Isaac Kasubon.

Isaac Kasubon, remember the name?

One of the most evil men that nobody knows about.

And he wasn't evil because of intentions.

I guess I don't think even he realized what he did.

And what he was was a very, very well-respected philosopher, but he also was an expert on antiquities.

So he would study old text and understand when they were written, right?

Or something like that.

So

The Holy Roman Empire, the Church, had a phenomenal idea.

They said, if we can discredit Hermeticism, we can completely destroy that entire side, and we can take the teachings of Moses and then everything going forward and basically do whatever we want.

Right.

We can just avoid all of natural law, avoid everything else, and we can create whatever we want for a world.

It's competition.

Isaac Kasubon gets hired by the Christian church to go in and prove that the Hermetica that everyone is using, that the version they're reading wasn't written when they think.