The Renaissance wasn’t just an artistic revival; it was a highly organized, heavily financed effort by the banking elite to recover the lost magic of antiquity. In Part 2 of The Prisca Theologia, The Dirt Unit tracks the occult timeline from the halls of the Vatican to the birth of the British Empire.

We explore how the Medici family funded the translation of ancient Hermetic texts, how the Orsini family weaponized the Vatican, and how figures like Botticelli and Da Vinci embedded divine geometry into their masterpieces. The timeline then shifts to England, where Queen Elizabeth’s astrologer, John Dee, and spymaster Francis Bacon used Enochian magic, cryptography, and Rosicrucian philosophy to engineer the British Empire and lay the foundations for the modern scientific state

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