…guys that when we see the pope over here, we see the medieval patriot. These are the same guys that burned Giordano Bruno, the great poet, visionary and scientist of the state because he wouldn't recant. Probably a stubborn Calabrian. I'm not sure about…

…We're still quibbling about whether there may or may not be planets around other stars but it's been 460 years since Giordano Bruno went to the stake saying: I know that the universe is infinite and that stars and planets extend in all directions.…

…this is where alchemy reached its great inflorescence, the rosicrucian enlightenment, the careers of Dr D, of Henry Cornelius Agrippa, Giordano Bruno all of that is happening here, including the discovery of the new world. Well then something happens here and…

…how it's put together. This is a psychedelic perception acquired over years and years of doing it. I always think of Giordano Bruno, the franciscan heretic of the 15th century 15th 14th, 16th century who was burned at the stake because he realized that…

…of the 15th century 15th 14th, 16th century who was burned at the stake because he realized that the universe is infinite. Giordano Bruno said the stars that we see at night are suns hung like lamps to the uttermost limit of infinity. Nobody had ever…

…we're still quibbling about whether there may or may not be planets around other stars but it's been 460 years since Giordano Bruno went to the stakes saying: I know that the universe is infinite and that stars and planets extend in all directions.…

…then it engulfs the celestial sphere, then the celestial sphere becomes somehow less divine. We get the picture for which Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake Easter Sunday in the year 1600. His contradiction of the celestial sphere was actually the…

…yet they don't speak because of the examples of fascist terrorism all around them. What had happened to other people who spoke Giordano Bruno I think is one of the most particular cases if you have to point at a particular case here the fact that…

…I believe since I don't have the catalogue, I'm not absolutely certain but I believe the catalogue urged you to read Giordano Bruno and the hermetic tradition by dame Frances Yates, and this is, though Frances Yates scholarship is very controversial I think…

…of the earth moving in space. This was written a d 150. This is book 5. Nobody had that. Insight until we reached Giordano Bruno. And if you read Giordano Bruno in the hermetic tradition you know that Bruno was burned at the stake and the reason he…

…This was written a d 150. This is book 5. Nobody had that. Insight until we reached Giordano Bruno. And if you read Giordano Bruno in the hermetic tradition you know that Bruno was burned at the stake and the reason he was burned at the stake was…

…the idea was that a perfect society could be the goal of the alchemical work. Let me read you a passage from Giordano Bruno. This is a wonderful passage from the picatrix remember picatrix? This was the book of magical 12th century magical texts that…

…To us this sounds tortured and peculiar but it works quite well. One of the great practitioners of the ars memoria was Giordano Bruno and he wrote a book called l osperio Delle Bistia triunfante the expulsion of the triumphant beast and my god max Ernst…

…the spirit transcends belief. So I wanted to say that. Then someone asked about Bruno and d since I suggested you read Giordano Bruno and the hermetic tradition. It's ironic that so little time was spent on Bruno, but on the other hand, I recommended you…

…the source of all the magical codes in the middle ages. If you're interested in a brilliant but fictional treatment of John Dee and Giordano Bruno, I'd like to recommend a novel to you. It's called Egypt, spelled a e g y p t. It has the a in front…

…consciousness what the telescope in the 16th century was to the science of astronomy. And the telescope was suppressed I mean Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake. Now they want to suppress the inner telescope, the telescope that brings the stars and…

…being, the transmission of god's will, as it were, from the unmoving sphere of god to us. And I see here is a book on Giordano Bruno He's just sitting here in front of me so I want to remind you why Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake on Easter…

…I see here is a book on Giordano Bruno He's just sitting here in front of me so I want to remind you why Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake on Easter Sunday in the year 1600 in Rome and that was because, besides his many heresies very interesting…

…stars that we see occupied one sphere, that's the celestial sphere and the sphere of god is the one outside that. So Giordano Bruno believed the stars were not on one sphere, but outside the sphere of jupiter, that they filled space, and the reason that…

…co ruler of the state in a scheme of magical sympathy and resonances, popes were. You know in the cover of the Giordano Bruno and the hermetic tradition there's a picture of the mosaic at Siena Cathedral that shows Hermes Trismegistus Co Equal with moses.…

…brother Klaus Albert Hoffman, Alchemist, philosopher, chemist, human being, a man of whom it might be said as was said of Giordano Bruno and Galileo in the 16th century, they brought astronomy of age. What the telescope was to astronomy in the 16th century…

…astrology can be deflected. And if you're interested in this sort of thing, dame Frances Yates wrote a wonderful book called Giordano Bruno and the hermetic tradition and there's another book by d p walker called demonic and spiritual magic from Ficino to…

…first. And so it was done. If you're interested in Renaissance Hermeticism you can't do better than read dame Frances Yates book Giordano Bruno and the hermetic tradition. Well I want to read you some of this stuff because it's very interesting and it has…

…of the clergy without causing a problem. And then the development of western magic splits into two strains: the Bruno strain, Giordano Bruno I understand he's running for president of the United States this year Giordano Bruno and his school he was a…

…magic splits into two strains: the Bruno strain, Giordano Bruno I understand he's running for president of the United States this year Giordano Bruno and his school he was a franciscan monk who ended up being burned at the stake. His sin for which he was…

…old hat in 1990 but in 1480 you know this was such a dizzying notion that it can hardly be imagined. You know, Giordano Bruno went to the stake was burned at the stake for insisting that the universe was infinite in all directions. You know he said…

…And so it was done. If you're interested in Renaissance Hermeticism, you can't do better than read dame Frances Yates book Giordano Bruno and the hermetic tradition. Well I want to read you some of this stuff because it's very interesting and it has…

…of the clergy without causing a problem. And then the development of western magic splits into two strains: the Bruno strain, Giordano Bruno I understand he's running for president of the United States this year Giordano Bruno and his school he was a…

…magic splits into two strains: the Bruno strain, Giordano Bruno I understand he's running for president of the United States this year Giordano Bruno and his school he was a franciscan monk who ended up being burned at the stake. His sin for which he was…

…because they're always vindicated. The trouble is there can be some rough spots along the way. A favorite heretic of mine is Giordano Bruno, who some of you may know about, who was burned at the stake as the price of his commitment to heresy. Bruno…