The Inquisition suppressed the Military Orders, subjected other Orders to a sort of bondage, and destroyed any psychical research; then, the languishing Esoteric Orders incarnated in alchemists of the Renaissance, who had sought refuge in several European Courts, especially in that of France.
Now, at this strange Court of Catherine of Médicis, in sixteen century, we shall refer to the most important astrological oracles of her time, and to Luca Gaurico and Nostradamus, closely related to the Médicis’ family.