The Universe in Flames

Giordano Bruno was an Italian philosopher, burned at the stake in 1600 after being declared guilty of heresy by the Roman Inquisition, in consequence of his criticism of Christianity and the cosmological conclusions he had reached in his search for truth through philosophy. Bruno considered Christianity as a degenerative process that reached its climax during the Counter-Reformation, however what actually interests me is to expose briefly his cosmology, because it makes sense and is very similar to the vision of the cosmos that the Europeans had during Prehistory and Classical Antiquity.

Bruno's Universe is eternal and infinitely extended (if it was finite, in what would be contained?), whereby motionless and without a center. It consists of a single living organism, animated and endowed with intellect, and it coincides with the concept of divinity: consequently the divine resides in the multiplicity that exists in the Universe, throughout Nature and, therefore, also in ourselves. For Bruno everything is matter, that is life, and the Universe consists in infinite matter that changes perennially, able to transform itself continuously in an incessant becoming, passing from one extreme to the other, from an opposite to the other. The universal matter is infinite energy provided with intellect, unity in which lies a multiplicity, multiplicity in which lies a unity!

"Perhaps you pronounce this sentence against me with greater fear than I receive it".

-Giordano Bruno

The Universe in Flames by Fabio Artuso, from Ancestor's Voice: 
https://ancestorvoice.wordpress.com/2017/03/18/the-universe-in-flames/