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Part 19 of a series—things I've said here that seem worth repeating on their anniversaries, such as the following words from exactly one year ago. "A fantastic short definition of 'God' is stated on page 245 of Thomas Whittaker's 'Giordano Bruno' (MIND, volume 9, number 34, April 1884): "'In Bruno's system God,—the absolute intellect,—is at once the beginning of things and the end to which they aspire according to the degree of their perfection. The divine intellect manifested in nature is "the soul of the world"; in the human mind it expresses itself as the desire to comprehend all things in relation to the unity from which they proceed.' "And on the next page: "'The two sides of Bruno's doctrine are brought into relation by means of the idea of perpetual transformation, of a descent of beings from unity on the one hand and an ascent towards it on the other. This idea is already present in the first of his philosophical works, De Umbris Idearum (1582).'" https://mindly.social/@setsly/113889045929672533