Photo Challenge 02-02-17

Here are the results from last week’s challenge

Rome…………15
Prague………..1
Dubrovnik…..1
Lisbon………..1
Geneva……….1
Budapest…….1

And our winner, with name drawn from a basket, is: Dr. Gagan Tindoni. Congratulations Gagan! Dr. Tindoni wrote the following in his submission: “Rome, Italy, this is the statue of Giordano Bruno: the James Dean of crypto-scientific mystical theology.” Wow, that sounds like he was quite the guy.

I include some of Giordano’s quotes in the LanguageBrief to give you a flavor of his ideas, ideas that led to him being tried for heresy by the Inquisition and, ultimately, being burned at the stake in Campo de’ Fiori (i.e., Field of Flowers), in the year 1600. Last week’s photo shows this Roman square with the monument of Giordano Bruno at the center, a statue erected in 1889 by the freemasons.

Giordano Bruno was known for his pantheistic and cosmological beliefs, asserting that the stars we see in the night sky are distant suns, probably with their own planets.

LanguageBrief

Today’s Quotes
Let’s hear today from Giordano Bruno. I found all four of the following quotes compelling. The first displays the type of pantheistic beliefs that led to Giordano being burned at the stake. Let me know which, if any, speak to you.

“There is one simple Divinity found in all things, one fecund Nature, preserving mother of the universe insofar as she diversely communicates herself, casts her light into diverse subjects, and assumes various names.” – Giordano Bruno

“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.” – Giordano Bruno

“That which we have lived is nothing; that which we live is a point; that which we have to live is not yet a point, but may be a point which, together, shall be and shall have been.” – Giordano Bruno

“Nothing is so good that impious and sacrilegious and wicked people cannot contort its proper benefit into evil.” – Giordano Bruno