Cause Principle Unity

Index
mathematical magic xxiii, 105, 107–8
mathematics xxiii, 11, 94–9, 101, 130
and astronomy ix
geometry 11, 94–9
matter
appetite of 85–6
and art xvi, 56–8
derived from cause 110
corporeal and incorporeal 8, 74–9
definitions 7, 55–6, 64–5, 70
dimensions 55, 80
excellence 7, 82
and form xvii–xix, 6–7, 46–50, 55–8,
59–60, 71, 74–86
as receptacle of forms 61
heavenly xii, 6
hierarchy xv, 9, 75, 79
and perfection 173
as possibility / potency xiv–xv, xvii–xix, 8,
65–70, 75, 77–85, 173
prime / single / universal xii, xviii, xi–xii,
7, 77, 173
principle 7, 61–2, 69–70
quality of 172
separation 83
and spherical motion xxiv, 118–19
substance 59–60, 74–6, 129
as substratum xvi, 7, 8–10, 56–7, 65–70,
75–6, 78
as woman 70–4, 86
Matthew, Tobias 27
maximum and minimum 67, 87, 96–100
medicine
magic xxiv, 63, 128, 134, 139, 140–1
philosophical 55–6, 64
schools of 63–4
melancholy xxiv, xxvn., 139, 161
memory xi, xii, 32
Mercury 171
metamorphosis xxix, xxi, 175
metaphysics 130
Michel de Castelnau: Bruno’s epistle to 3–12
mind 156
mirrors 129
mixtures 132–3, 142
Mocenigo, Giovanni xxxi, xxxii
Moses 83, 117
motion 116
and attraction 120–3
and bonding 158–9
double 118–19
local 123
spherical xxiv, 118–19
Mount Cicada 126–7
multiplicity xvi, xx, 4, 5, 10, 76–7, 81, 93–6
music 135, 136, 169
musicians 41
mutation / change 89–90, 93, 118, 126
names 26–7, 32, 131
nationalities 24–5, 157, 168
natural magic 105
nature
contraries 100
extrinsic / intrinsic 109, 110–11
ladder of see hierarchy of being
laws of xx–xxi
substratum, compared to art 56–61, 82–5
necromancy 44, 106, 157
Neo-Platonism xvii–xviii
Nicholas of Cusa xi, xii, xv, xvii, 97
De possest xvi, xix
Docta ignorantia (Learned Ignorance) xiv
Nola 126–7
nomenclature see names
numbers see mathematics
occult philosophy 105
occult qualities xxiii–xxiv
ocean 129
opinion / belief 69, 162
opposites see contraries
orators / oratory 26–7, 29, 137, 157, 158, 167
Origen 125, 127
Orpheus 170–1
Ovid: Metamorphoses 46
Oxford xxx
Paracelsus 55n., 56
Paris xxx, xxxi
Parmenides x, 11, 69
passions see emotions; love
Patrizi, Francesco vii–viii, xxxii, 54n
pedantry 29–32, 50–3
Peleus 154
perfection xxviii, 40–1, 89, 173
Peripatetics xiii, xvii, xviii, 7, 8, 35, 42, 44, 48,
59, 61, 70, 74, 76, 80, 85, 93, 95, 173
on bonds 172
see also Aristotle
Perotti, Nicoló 30n.
phantasy 119, 165
philosophers / philosophy 15–16, 21–3, 55–6,
62–5, 90, 93, 176
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