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Demeter & The Medici

A Challenge from the Magical Bankers of Florence

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Nathan Knopp
Jun 02, 2025
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During the Middle Ages, the Roman Catholic Church condemned as heretics those who promulgated the idea that reality is not merely observed by the mind, but is also a product of the mind. This idea will serve as a simplified definition of magic for the purposes of this essay. The Church insisted that creation is the sole domain of God and backed this ins…

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