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Isis Unveiled: chapter III (The mirror of the soul)

"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 [...]

Isis Unveiled: chapter III (The mirror of the soul)

"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 [...]

Isis Unveiled: chapter III (The mirror of the soul)

"But Professor Draper seems to have a very superficial knowledge of the true belief of the philosophers. We can leave Spinoza out of the question, and even allow him to remain in the eyes of his critics an utter atheist and materialist; for the cautious reserve which he placed upon himself in his writings makes [...]