Esoteric Transhumanism

"The Renaissance magi, Yates argued, believed that the Neoplatonic and Hermetic quest to reascend the Great Chain would elevate them to rulership and command over the natural world—and this idea, in turn, led to modern experimental science.70 For if man was created in God’s image, as is revealed in Genesis 1:26, so, by the logic of Hermeticism, could man not only play God but become like God."
Esotericism; Transhumanism; Religious Transhumanism; The Great Chain of Being;