"The work depicts a royal wedding spread over seven days, whose events track in some ways the alchemical process understood as a spiritual exercise. [...]. It is reasonably clear that this did not describe an actual missionary enterprise, but the spread of a new historical optimism based on the hope for a new synthesis of knowledge."
Yes, it was metaphoric to explain the physiology (which is real), but then again, the metaphors hid metaphysic reality, and still do.
"Mathematics seemed to him to be too close to conjuration. (Some of his contemporaries thought the same, and supported the development of mathematics for just that reason.)"
This is my most significant issue with Sabine Hossenfelder (sp?) and my old esoteric Catholic mathematics professor (RIP), and the masses they could entrance with boggling figures, without realising the paradigm is wrong. And that is where the curious and observant artist has dibs on reality imho.
In the Introduction to her new translation of Giordano Bruno's La cena de le ceneri (The Ash Wednesday Supper), published in 2018 by University of Toronto Press, Hillary Gatti critiques Frances Yates's assessment of Bruno in purely Hermetic terms.
"Frances Yates, in her Hermetic interpretation of Bruno, was equally keen – although within a different intellectual context – to deprive Bruno of any technically valid scientific reason. For Yates was convinced that Bruno’s Copernicanism functioned only as a “Hermetic seal hiding potent divine mysteries.” The so-called “Yates thesis” has contributed a further and – for many readers – final blow to any attempt to read these pages as a valid contribution to the post-Copernican astronomical discussion." [p.xli]
"Here an attempt will be made to reverse these negative judgments. I [Gatti] will be claiming that in Dialogue V of the Supper Bruno defines the four motions of the earth around the sun on the basis of a serious reading of De revolutionibus, and particularly of book III, where Copernicus formulates his new account of the precession of the equinoxes." [p.xli]
You could have just responded to the ads in Science Digest back in the day and joined the Rosicrucians and learned all their secrets ;-)
"The work depicts a royal wedding spread over seven days, whose events track in some ways the alchemical process understood as a spiritual exercise. [...]. It is reasonably clear that this did not describe an actual missionary enterprise, but the spread of a new historical optimism based on the hope for a new synthesis of knowledge."
Yes, it was metaphoric to explain the physiology (which is real), but then again, the metaphors hid metaphysic reality, and still do.
"Mathematics seemed to him to be too close to conjuration. (Some of his contemporaries thought the same, and supported the development of mathematics for just that reason.)"
This is my most significant issue with Sabine Hossenfelder (sp?) and my old esoteric Catholic mathematics professor (RIP), and the masses they could entrance with boggling figures, without realising the paradigm is wrong. And that is where the curious and observant artist has dibs on reality imho.
In the Introduction to her new translation of Giordano Bruno's La cena de le ceneri (The Ash Wednesday Supper), published in 2018 by University of Toronto Press, Hillary Gatti critiques Frances Yates's assessment of Bruno in purely Hermetic terms.
"Frances Yates, in her Hermetic interpretation of Bruno, was equally keen – although within a different intellectual context – to deprive Bruno of any technically valid scientific reason. For Yates was convinced that Bruno’s Copernicanism functioned only as a “Hermetic seal hiding potent divine mysteries.” The so-called “Yates thesis” has contributed a further and – for many readers – final blow to any attempt to read these pages as a valid contribution to the post-Copernican astronomical discussion." [p.xli]
"Here an attempt will be made to reverse these negative judgments. I [Gatti] will be claiming that in Dialogue V of the Supper Bruno defines the four motions of the earth around the sun on the basis of a serious reading of De revolutionibus, and particularly of book III, where Copernicus formulates his new account of the precession of the equinoxes." [p.xli]
I wrote recently about Bruno in two posts:
- Giordano Bruno the Thinker (https://johnplaice.substack.com/p/giordano-bruno-the-thinker)
- Giordano Bruno on the One and the Infinite (https://johnplaice.substack.com/p/giordano-bruno-on-the-one-and-the)
Thanks for the insight.