Scholars Devoted to Hermeticism

Multiple Choice

Scholars devoted to Hermeticism

A) believed that the world was a very recent and still imperfect creation.
B) credited the devil with control over the dark secrets of nature.
C) saw the world as a living embodiment of divinity where humans could use mathematics and magic to dominate nature.
D) retreated from study of the natural world to concentrate on mastery of theories of magic.
E) all of the above.