Mystical Principles
It is not unreasonable to believe that any part of the world is without a soul life, sensation and organic structure. From this infinite All, full of beauty and splendour, from the vast worlds which circle above us to the sparkling dust of stars beyond, the conclusion is drawn that there are an infinity of creatures, a vast multitude, which, each in its degree, mirrors forth the splendour, wisdom and excellence of the divine beauty.
The heavens are a picture, abook, a mirror, wherein man can behold and read the form and the laws of supreme goodness, the plan and total of perfection........From this Spirit, which is One, all being flows; there is one truth and one goodness penetrating and governing all things.....We are surrounded by eternity and by the uniting of love. There is but one centre from which all species issue, as rays from a sun and to which all species return. There is but one celestial expanse, where the stars choir forth unbroken harmony. From this spirit, which is called the life of the Universe, proceeds the life and soul of everything which has soul and life, the which life however, I understand to be immortal, as well in bodies as in their souls, there being no other death than division and congregation.
GIORDANO BRUNO (1548 - 1600)