Characters of Giordano Bruno’s Mysticism

Abstract

In Giordano Bruno’s thought the furioso and the magus can realize the mystical conversion. The furioso reaches a superior knowledge and a conscious existence renewed by the connection with the divine; the magus can rule nature and men by the means of the highest bond, thereby striving for a leading role in the political and social domains. Both the furioso and the magusturn to the origin: as far as the furioso is concerned, the emphasis lays on his tension towards the divine and on the glorification of human excellence, while, concerning the magus, his capability to intervene in the vicissitudo, in the explicated nature and in the world of men stands strongly out. My reflection on Giordano Bruno’s mysticism intends to place the tension towards the divine – a tension which enlivens the and the (two kinds of man who are able to establish an active and vivifying contact with the divinity) − in a metaphysical framework, in order to recall the field lines livening up the relationship between man and the upper dimension from which he arises.