“To the extent that one communicates with Nature, so one ascends to Divinity through Nature.”

As translated by Arthur Imerti (1964)
The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast (1584)
Context: Animals and plants are living effects of Nature; this Nature... is none other than God in things... Diverse living things represent diverse divinities and diverse powers, which, besides the absolute being they possess, obtain the being communicated to all things according to their capacity and measure. Whence all of God is in all things (although not totally, but in some more abundantly and in others less) … Think thus, of the sun in the crocus, in the narcissus, in the heliotrope, in the rooster, in the lion…. To the extent that one communicates with Nature, so one ascends to Divinity through Nature.

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Italian philosopher, mathematician and astronomer 1548–1600

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