Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola said in the Oration on the Dignity of Man “``man is a living creature of varied, multiform and ever-changing nature.'' That we born with the right to be who choose what we want to be and if we want to be some sort of successful being that we must hold our self with a higher self-worth in faith. You reader may be thinking why didn’t you start with the last sentence and I answer that question with a simple answer.

“You are all Gods and sons of the Most High”, Della Mirandola quoted the Aspah the Prophet in saying the main answer to the question that we should fully hold our self-up to the standard of the most high. The question that still arrives with that question is if we have to hold our self-up to that standard

than the holiest of holies need to be higher than us. Della Mirandola answers that well by saying basically that’s ludicrous, because if we are all sons of the most high God and mainly we are all Gods than we are all on the same playing field even with the priest or rabbis. While reading this article I was if you can see elegantly “mind-blown” on how this escaped my thoughts through-out the 20 years I have lived. God created everybody in his image no matter how long you have been in school or how long you have been exposed to the bible or what you have done bad or good the Father loves as much as he loved his own son Jesus Christ.
To follow on this theological path that I have stumbled onto in this paper people may think that is again ludicrous statement to say “how can good love a murderer or a bum”. I know that these are literally on both sides of the spectrum, but I believe that people out in our society see these people as the scum of the earth. The Father doesn’t see this he sees his only begotten son. Della Mirandola continues on to clarify this statement by which he is citing Moses himself in which I believe he is writing to some sort of higher authority or leader, “`Let those who, still unclean, have need of moral philosophy, dwell with the peoples outside the tabernacles, under the open sky, until, like the priests of Thessaly, they shall have cleansed themselves. Those who have already brought order into their lives may be received into the tabernacle, but still may not touch the sacred vessels. Let them rather first, as zealous levites, in the service of dialectic, minister to the holy offices of philosophy. When they shall themselves be admitted to those offices, they may, as priests of philosophy, contemplate the many-colored throne of the higher God, that is the courtly palace of the star-hung heavens, the heavenly candelabrum aflame with seven lights and elements which are the furry veils of this tabernacle; so that, finally, having been permitted to enter, through the merit of sublime theology, into the innermost chambers of the temple, with no veil of images interposing itself, we may enjoy the glory of divinity.''
To make this a bit easier to understand this, Moses is saying this in sarcasm I believe because he is showing the hardships it is on the ordinary people that have to enter the temple to receive the word of god at the tabernacle. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola really hits the nail on the head with this letter and it was a great read to have read. He really makes me believe that we are all creatures that have changing form in our lives and one goal that is holding our self to the most high.