Giordano Bruno by Michael D Nalley
The summary of Bruno’s philosophy would be a fulfillment to a prophecy
To have unity in diversity in a master idea of unity
All reality is one in substance, one in cause, and one when it was begun
And mysteriously, God and this reality are also one
To me this another way of saying creation is God’s alone
And this is something Giordano Bruno must have known
Bruno refused to separate the physical and the psychical
Although many authorities of his day thought he was radical
To him mind and matter were one
Just as the stars were the same as the sun
So the object of his philosophy he taught in a university
Therefore was to perceive unity in diversity
So mind in matter, and matter in mind
These concepts to him were one of a kind
To find the synthesis in which opposites and contradictions meet and merge
Would put a persistent philosopher on the verge
Of rising to the highest knowledge of universal unity
Which is the intellectual equivalent of the love of God’s entity
According to Webster the universe is all created things regarded as a system or whole
Would it be reasonable to assume God’s creation separate from Him, or out of control?
As for the oneness of the physical and the psychical, does not the miracle of creation, make the natural a fragment of the supernatural?
Does not all matter in the universe come from the mind of God?
So if there were no matter in His mind would not you find it odd?
And His matter can be transformed by the mind of man
And can be used for good in accordance with God’s plan
If something totally seems to lack the properties of another
Just as to feed a flame is at the other end of to smother
They are said to be the opposites of each other
Some things are alike but different like a sister is to a brother
But I suppose Bruno knew that mans knowledge of opposites was incomplete
Concluding because of the laws of motion many opposites tend to meet
Just as the substance of creation, which, God did scatter
Are moved by God, and the void becomes filled with matter
And if the soul is void of matter could not time change the latter
Bruno seemed to be a philosopher with mysticism
Some say he was condemned for teaching pantheism
Many scientist credit him with heroism
For supposedly dying for Copernicanism
But was his brutal execution a paradox
By those who thought themselves orthodox
Or did his life end like the summary of his philosophic forethought
I think he was a martyr for the truth that he so diligently sought
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