Initiating The Annual Brunalia Cerebralation
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SH, Azar 24 - 2016
AO*, December 21 - 3182
YOLD, The Aftermath 63 - 5777
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Moving from equinox to solstice, resurfacing after one quarter spiral ellipse around the stellar core of our solar system, by returning to and from Eleusis for the initiation of the annual solstitial cerebralation of Giordano Bruno's birth.
Bruno - astronomer, freethinker, mathematician, occultist, philosopher - who extended the
Copernican heliocentric model with his ideas and theories, encompassing an infinite universe, a multipicity of worlds, the existence of extrasolar planets and the likelihood of extraterrestrial life, with an intuitive approach to logic and a rational grasp on instinct, nevertheless without proper scientific evidence;
Filippo Bruno, a
Dominican friar, who released his self from the weight of dogma that surpressed the freedom of his mind, who broke free from the shackles of the rigid, theocratic
belief system he thitherto adhered to;
Giordano Bruno, who
committed several acts of heresy, ultimately embraced by the
authority of the catatholic church, welcomed with
their zealous love to
respond to such heretic behavior with their traditional
burning at the stake. Yes. The festive immolation of skepsis. 1600 AO in Bruno's case.
Thus, over a foursome centuries since**, Giordano Bruno,
Il Nolano, became a symbol for the free-thinking mind and its ability to bridge the abyss between what we tend to dissociatively conceive as the spiritual and the material. A symbol, not an icon - nothing mythical, neither mystical, but merely metaphorical - to cerebralate the delightful return of the light, showing the way along the middle path between intuition and logic, between reason and instinct. And what better moment to engage the
symbolic cerebralation of his birth, than the day the Sun regains its northward rise, the day the light returns? Why, indeed:
the December solstice. Henceforth, in honor of Bruno's name, these annual festivities shall remain known as the
Brunalia.
Carpe diem noctemque!
Let us cerebralate!
Viva Il Nolano!
Viva Il Sole!
Now, let us raise hats and heads and open our minds after we sign off with this clip from
Cosmos, judged by some of us as rather
historically inadequate and
quite controversial, mostly due to the succinctity of the summary of Bruno's history into approximately ten minutes.
* AO or "Anno Occidentalis" instead of AD or Anno "Domini".
** It took the catatholic church
350 years to pardon Galilei, yet it still has not forgiven nor
beatified Bruno. If only it understood how Bruno's martyrly status steadily grows the longer it takes to finally do so.
onlinear re:sources
- Britannica:
britannica.com/Giordano-Bruno
- Infidels:
infidels.org/giordano_bruno
- New Advent:
newadvent.org/giordano_bruno
- New World Encyclopedia:
newworldencyclopedia.org/Bruno
- Wikipedia:
en.wikipedia.org/Giordano_Bruno
∞
.: fiat lux et vivat pax :.
apart from the quoted:
all text ⓦ Satyr Barbarossa
(cc) 2016 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
