Sunday, July 17, 2016

Nicholas of Cusa on the Pantheon

From the 25th chapter of De docta ignorantia...

"Also the temples of Peace, Eternity, and Concord, the Pantheon, in the middle of which, in the open air, an altar was dedicated to the Infinite Limit, which is without limit, and similar monuments instruct us that pagans assigned various names to God according to God's relation to creatures. All the names are unfoldings of the enfolding of the one, ineffable name, and as this proper name is infinite, so it enfolds an infinite number of such names of particular perfections. Although there could be many such unfoldings, they are never so many or so great that there could not be more; each of them is to the proper and ineffable name what the finite is to the infinite."

Another win for our favorite Lobster-Cardinal




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