Author: win r

""Thus, in regard to the Holy Spirit in a third person, I have not been able to comprehend, as ought to be believed, but, according to the Pythagoric manner, in conformity to the manner shown by Solomon, I have understood it as the soul of the universe, or adjoined to the universe according to the [...]

""Thus I understand being in all and over all, as there is nothing without participation in being, and there is no being without essence, just as nothing is beautiful without beauty being present;   thus nothing can be free from the divine presence, and thus by way of reason, and not by way of substantial [...]

"To this, the accused philosopher answered by the following profession of faith, which is that of every disciple of the ancient masters:   "I hold, in brief, to an infinite universe, that is, an effect of infinite divine power, because I esteemed it a thing unworthy of divine goodness and power, that being able to [...]

"Perfidious as they are, the above words plainly indicate the belief of Bruno in the Pythagorean metempsychosis, which, misunderstood as it is, still shows a belief in the survival of man in one shape or another. Further, the accuser says:   "He has shown indications of wishing to make himself the author of a new [...]

"The charges in the denunciation of Mocenigo, his accuser, are expressed in the following terms:   "I, Zuane Mocenigo, son of the most illustrious Ser Marcantonio, denounce to your very reverend fathership, by constraint of my conscience and by order of my confessor, that I have heard say by Giordano Bruno, several times when he [...]