> (Though in some ways the periphery/centre business sounds more like
Cusanus
> than Plotinus.)
... decided to look this up.
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"The famous saying that God is "a sphere of which the centre is everywhere
and the circumference nowhere" is, in fact, first found in a pseudo-Hermetic
treatise of the twelth century, and was transferred by Cusanus to the
universe, as a reflection of God, in a manner which is Hermetic in
spirit..This concept was basic for Bruno, for whom the innumerable worlds
are all divine centres of the unbounded universe."
Yates, Bruno, p. 247.
The Liber XXIV philosophorum, published by Clemens Baeumker, Das
pseudi.hermetische Buch der XXIV Meister, Beitrage zur Geschichte der
Philosophie und Theologue des Mittelalters, fasc.xxv, Munster, 1928.
The source of Cusanus, is: De docta ignorantia, II, cap.2; cf.Koyre, op.
cit., pp. 10ff.
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http://home.mweb.co.za/sa/samten/centre.htm
Robin
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