There is a single general space, a single vast immensity which we may freely call void: in it are unnumerable globes like this on which we live and grow, this space we declare to be infinite, since neither reason, convenience, sense-perception nor nature assign to it a limit.
GIORDANO BRUNOI await your sentence with less fear than you pass it. The time will come when all will see what I see.
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I do not know when, but I know that many have come in this century to develop arts and sciences, sow the seeds of a new culture that will flourish, unexpected, sudden, just when the power is deluded into believing they have won.
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Without her presence nothing would have being, because she is the essence of the existence of the first unto the last being.
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In this infinite space is placed our universe (whether by chance, by necessity, or by providence I do not now consider).
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The soul, in its power, is present in some way in the entire universe, because it apprehends substances which are not included in the body in which it lives, although they are related to it.
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For nothing is in fact diminished in its substance, but all things, wandering through infinite space, undergo change of aspect.
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God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is.
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The fools of the world have been those who have established religions, ceremonies, laws, faith, rule of life.
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Divine love does not weigh down, nor carry his servant captive and enslaved to the lowest depths, but raises him, supports him and magnifies him above all liberty whatsoever.
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Of the eternal incorporeal substance nothing is changed, is formed or deformed, but there always remains only that thing which cannot be a subject of dissolution, since it is not possible that it be a subject of composition, and therefore, either of itself or by accident, it cannot be said to die.
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I who am in the night will move into the day.
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The infinity of All ever bringing forth anew, and even as infinite space is around us, so is infinite potentiality, capacity, reception, malleability, matter.
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Our bodily eye findeth never an end, but is vanquished by the immensity of space.
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I beg you, reject antiquity, tradition, faith, and authority! Let us begin anew by doubting everything we assume has been proven!
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I await your sentence with less fear than you pass it. The time will come when all will see what I see.
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Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.
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God is infinite, so His universe must be too.
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Anything we take in the Universe, because it has in itself that which is All in All, includes in its own way, the entire soul of the world, which is entirely in any part of it.
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They dispute not in order to find or even to seek Truth, but for victory, and to appear the more learned and strenuous upholders of a contrary opinion. Such persons should be avoided by all who have not a good breastplate of patience.
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Beautiful sights arouse feelings of love, and contrary sights bring feelings of disgrace and hate. And the emotions of the soul and spirit bring something additional to the body itself, which exists under the control of the soul and the direction of the spirit.
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I cleave the heavens and soar to the infinite. And while I rise from my own globe to others and penetrate ever further through the eternal field. That which others saw from afar, I leave far behind me.
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Innumerable suns exist; innumerable earths revolve around these suns in a manner similar to the way the seven planets revolve around our sun. Living beings inhabit these worlds.
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Divinity reveals herself in all things.
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Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.
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Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
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Time takes all and gives all
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I understand Being in all and over all, as there is nothing without participation in Being, and there is no being without Essence. Thus nothing can be free of the Divine Presence.
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