BRUNO, GIORDANO

Cause , Principle, Eternal Unity,

On which all being, motion and life depend:

In length, in breath, in depth your powers extend

As far as heaven and earth and hell may be--

With sense, with reason, and with spirit I’ve seen

That reckoning, measure and act can’t comprehend

The force, the number and mass, which, with no end,

Pass all that’s low or high or set between.

(Bruno, 1962, 55)

     “The Universal Intellect is the innermost, most real and essential faculty and the most efficacious part of the word-soul.  It is the one and the same thing, which fills the whole,illumines the universe, and directs nature in producing her species in the right way. It plays the same role in the production of natural things as our intellect does in the parallel production of rational systems.”

(Ibid., 81)