Our attitude toward the Renaissance

The Renaissance was the time when the Church began to open up to the history of other religions, as well as to science. For example, the Medici's seem to have been patrons of the Kabbalist Christian occult, which was in effect, an opening to the East, the Zoroastrian-Hindu East, which influenced both Orthodox Judaism and Christianity.

This ecumenical dialog has been closed or hampered by pre-Renaissance-oriented thinkers, singling their own religions out as the exclusive way. These religious thinkers have tended to reject the Primordial Tradition existing in all religions, but this is precisely why we affirm them. And we continue the ecumenical ethos of the Renaissance by affirming modern science in our Evolutionary Outward Path to Godhood.