This chapter outlines a transformative epoch wherein the revival of ancient theurgical practices from Greco-Egyptian, Byzantine, Islamic, and Medieval traditions profoundly influenced cultural perspectives on wonder, curiosity, and magic. This period witnessed a profound intellectual evolution marked by the synthesis of theurgical animatory processes with astral image-making, informed by Neoplatonic philosophy and enriched by Byzantine and Arabic manuscripts. Renaissance natural philosophers of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries navigated diverse philosophical traditions—Neoplatonic, Christian, and Jewish—engaging in both theoretical inquiries and practical applications of theurgy in literary and visual expressions. Figures like Ficino, Lazzarelli, Agrippa, and Pomponazzi played pivotal roles in this intellectual landscape, fostering a resurgence of Platonic, Hermetic, and Neoplatonic thought that reshaped European intellectual paradigms.