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capital work of Bruno, . the Clavis Magna , was written and is in our hands,
Secondly, we show that the work here are identified and presented as Clavis
Magna , has never been recognized for that because classified within the
thinking.
which a normal person these days, can remember with accuracy and
numbers, so the art of thinking, which makes use of a technique for memory
remember and use creatively the whole totality of his knowledge, his
Plato mentions it when he says that doubt and confusion arise from the
believes true reasoning and a little later the par fake (and sometimes is
false,
wanted no) , and Cotesta case occurs over a FIATA , in the end , and no
longer believes in anything, and especially those who are used to thinking of
everything pros and cons, which , you know , at the last believe of being
very wise and become ' they have just heard that there is no such thing in
the
world nor any reasoning frank and durable , but that all, as nell'Euripo ,
turns
thing that avendovi of reasoning and real balances , easy to understand , for
those who have heard he sometimes seemed to him true and sometimes not,
in exchange for accagionar himself and his lack of art, gitti finally gladly
self- blame on the same reasoning , and spend all the more time to his life -
Odian
as in antiquity had given man the artificial memory , so Bruno with this book
delivered to mankind the Artificial Intelligence, which does not need any
computer that is the human brain, which is used from habit as a recorder
that
Paolo Rossi, about Bruno, spoke of "fantasmatic logic" , taking only a partial
unfolding the imagination, but this "logic " , this thought is integrated in a
way "scientific", because their are verifiable in congruity with the outside
The use of the imagination to practical purposes rather than to the known
those accustomed to call "fantasy" that which has no basis in reality, simple
Yet Aristotle had already warned his contemporaries that every form of
thought is fantasy, even scientific thought. "The map is not the territory ,"
warns the Bateson. So why not take note of this fact and go bravely
conscious and deliberate use of that faculty of the human mind, after having
spontaneous and natural in front of the thesis put forward : if Bruno really
found artificial intelligence, or the art of thinking, because he has not said it
explicitly, and has instead obscurely left this invention to make us believe
The direct reading of the text of Clavis Magna induces disorientation rather
than lightening the mind of the reader, and this does not happen by chance,
since, as we will explain later on, the author did not intend to expose all of
its doctrine in the pages of a text that would go into the hands of anyone,
but
it was meant to arouse the curiosity of his contemporaries because they then
Because many passages of his art have been silenced and can be
reconstructed only inductively , we must assume that with his death has
resume the discourse on Artificial Intelligence that only the present day can
finally be started due to the quantity and quality of the knowledge acquired .
The words of Bruno "...explore ( these principles ) a Work so vast that it can
own contemporaries.
The human mind can be regarded as the most sophisticated computer you
can imagine,
it can store an incredible amount of data and process them with the rapidity
and precision not less than that of the machines, and above that, is capable
of
creating. So why not begin to study the Bruno's software for our mind in
thing in place to provide the predigested food we fit the dentures to chew
on,
teacher of the third millennium, not a fallen victim to the old philosopher of
the lnquisition.
Bruno had been able to grasp the emergence of a new sophistry that, like
the
reflection had then stretched. As a new Plato, Bruno shows the way of
awakening not only the intellect, but, unlike its predecessors, at the same
time provides all the necessary information to the journey. But there's not
right in the field of scientific research, in fact, for several years, scientists
have expressed the need to adopt new ways of thinking, seeing as those on
"quanta .''
Perhaps the time has come to make a radical revolution in our way of
thinking, abandoning their prejudices and the ruling inherited from the
the time to even use this power consciously and deliberately to free our
minds from the shackles and the superstructures that immobilize it, and the
List of abbreviations
AMArs Memoriae
CCCantus Circaeus
CM Clavis Magna
DA De Anima of Aristotle
Note: The quotes from other Latin writings of Giordano Bruno report page
according
thanks
A big thank you goes to Professor Maria Semproni who worked on the
inaccessibility , but if that really were the case, would be to deny the very
exists to be violated, and in his own violation is the victory of truth that
hides it, as in the final indulge of the woman is the end of its beauty,
The mystery lies therefore an enigma, that is, a structure whose apparent
forms lead astray and the challenge is to recognize the functions of the
structure beyond appearances. This recognition can take place only coming
out of the context in which the riddle is stated, leaving the mind free to
outstanding performance of the rational mind; Brurno and all the great
thinkers talk about it before them instead as of the intellect, the faculty that
The mystery also, like beauty, is a challenge and gives rise to the feeling of
pride and the desire for possession, as very well know the magicians of
today's advertising. That's why Bruno who use them largely for groped to
attract disciples as the best minds of his time, that they should certainly
But times change and human knowledge increases all the time despite the
stupidity of the ruling classes, who, like the Pareto had to recognize, are
2 . It is possible that Clavis Magna has never been either written or been
lost?
We thus propose to tackle the mystery of this text ever written, or perhaps
lost, who knows, but enclosing what secrets? Stellar Magic, dares the
Since we do not know anything about these fantasy so as you, as they say,
The double hypothesis that Clavis Magna was not ever composed or lost
undoubtedly has the practical advantage of exempt ourselves from the tiring
task of looking for it, but it is not methodologically correct, given that the
Bruno himself then affirms each are hoping to immortal fame : "The form
exterior and the figure of the inventor of Clavis Magna through the art, is
entrusted to the hard stone, or diamond," Chapter VI , Page 58 , AM, and not
wrong because it "...contains all the technical operations of the soul , both
memory and the others," cap. XV p. 64. And in the Cantus Circaeus states:
The mystery then it would be even more dense and our concerns which
could not
So let's go in order and examine for the first hypothesis of the failed
composition of Clavis Magna: apart from the absence of this title from
Bruno's bibliography, we do not have any clue that the work was never
written, while the number of citations and recalls in the Art of Memory, and
Such calls are made because "it is not always right that the researcher
sends
the writer, where necessary, to recall what has already been stated in the
other .
And this is in itself a valuable clue against the hypothesis that we are
represents the work of a general nature in which are contained the general
principles.
Memory and in the Songs of Circeo gives us a lot of useful elements to get
an idea of the topics covered in the Clavis Magna , which, as you can easily
guess, all relate directly to the Art of memory that the two texts in our hands
involved.
It certainly is not easy to pretend to believe that a book of which the author
speaks so widely indicating the content even compared to many details has
never been written. Nor will want to plead for the failed composition of the
book the fear of being unequal to the task, Bruno does not feel inferior to
any of the philosophers of the past and of not being able to deal with any
subject with mastery of concepts and bewildering audacity in the use of the
technicial terms.
mathematics and so on. , without bothering to give any systematic way to his
most brilliant insights , such as that of the infinite worlds that only in very
recent times, man has been able to accept. Look for the center of thought ,
therefore, is to engage in the work of Bruno's quest for Clavis Magna of his
composed : in fact, in the last lines Bruno defines the Sigillus Sigillanos as
one of the volumes of the Clavis Magna . So the Claris Magna exist, at least
in part, at least the second volume is definitely in our hands , although with
a
different title , and then you can reasonably expect to find even the first .
3 . The misunderstanding of the name , however the fact that a part of the
Clavis Magna has a name different from that with which it was printed ,
leads us to formulate a new hypothesis : the name Claris Magna might not
be a title, but rather a generic name indicating the role of the book in
relation
to other works. The function preparatory work also explains the uncertainty
regarding the exact number of volumes that compose it, initially only one, as
shown by the numerous citations of De Umbris and Rods Circaeus , but then
all this work done to call with a different name from the title under which it
was published is not an isolated incident, it is also called the Ars Cantus
Circaeus reminiscendi (eg page 135 E.30 St. ) and not a few doubts exist as
to whether the De Umbris and the Ars Memoriae we can consider two
And yet we find in the recall explicatio 30 Seals ? , Page 146 , leads us to
believe that these are two distinct works , given that states: " .. I have
mostly
taught in ARS Memoriae that follows the de Umbris . " At this point we
Magna , but before you seriously consider the possibility that it remained
unpublished, and therefore has been lost , that would force us to direct our
reasonable hope of identifying the title under which the work is hidden .
Immediately comes forward the issue of the era in which it was printed
because we know that Clavis Magna must have been composed in Toulouse,
a city in which Bruno was between 1581 and 1582 to comment on the De
Cantus Circaeus.
Assuming , therefore, that it was printed some years after the actual date of
composition, we would like to know why the publication has taken place at a
later date than the other works that deal with related topics and they need
the
happens in detective stories, let's take a step back to frame the figure of
Bruno.
Bruno has a very high self esteem, here's what it looks like in the preface to
abstract theology, professor of wisdom pure and harmless, the best known
in any foreign place, if not between the barbarians and the ignoble,
awakener
a universal philosophy , who does not prefer the Italian to the Britons, males
to females, mitrate those crowned heads, the men of the robe to those arms,
those who wear the habit in those who do not carry it, but rather one who is
more temperate, more civil, more loyal and pious capable, that does not take
into account the oint head, forehead marked, hands washed, the circumcised
penis, but (and this allows us to know the man in the face) the culture of the
mind and the soul, which is hated by the propagators of nonsense and
hypocrites but sought after by honest and scholars, and whose genius is
man who once had been a friar was not wearing any trace of false
no one who does not hold in high esteem those relying on their wits
from where they have a basis in reality. " DU Pag them , in fact,
"the work of only Plato and Aristotle alone will not be enough to
, for " we are the oldest and longest we age our predecessors,
therefore you must comply with the new ideas that most ancient
ones, as modern as having the experience that they had not," and
also " if the old ideas are true as such, then it must be false when
And again: " among the species of philosophy, that is the meglior,
what is possible (make us) that cooperators" , Page 277 Dia . It.
noble (the refinement of intellect) gives him a rank higher than that
Bruno aims to teach the art of thinking, (AM) that can not be
disciple, for this we need a school. That's not to say too much
Hence the dark swirls in the style often rushed, almost crude and
Lucretius: "Here an old woman from the back curve, stern face,
sunken eyes, not very present in the soul itself, overloaded years
knocking at the door of the silent black Say with fearful mood, the
And you look at the silent sky sublime splendor, bowing and bowing her
head unstable on both shoulders and tilted her face on his chest; languish
weak legs and torso arched and no comfort in life takes not more vigorous
limbs"hg . 130 CM .
Some Latin works more than real books are proclamations launched the
Geometricae pag.XVI) that until the end "...confirm the academic aspirations
We would add that his true aspiration was to create the new Alexander the
grammarians, who know how to repeat in and out season, the ideas of
others, but men able to create their own opinions using consciously their
mental faculties.
This explains, among other things, the stark contrast between the good
psychology, the subject invention of which he was proud and which rested
the sense of his greatness, his faithful disciple claims that while he was
writing "Support on one foot at the same time dictated and thought, hardly
followed by the pen, such was his lightning wit, so great was the power of
Neither one cared in the least to correct errors of any kind, unless he had
not
understood exactly, more would have been the possibility of being asked to
In fact, in Latin works Bruno often repeats that "one thing is difficult,
someone who can understand these things alone. Everyone will understand
by the master, which certainly does not stem from the fact that we aspire to
the difficulties, but the novelty of the thing and the wealth of terms" , CC ,
Page 215, and adds an explanation of the closed attitude : " in fact, Plato
urges nell'Eutidemo in the knowledge that the most solemn and mysterious
to be detained by the philosophers with him and be disclosed only to the few
who are worthy. In fact says that the water although you buy at very low
price, it is the most precious of all things. The same we do with our friends
,
and even pious carefully, because then we are forced to a situation more
urgent than that from which Plato was headed. " The situation was more
where our pay, while Plato when he published his works already
world .
the men who, having procured the fire of the gods, have incurred
their wrath ." The gods feared the wrath of whom Bruno were both
the rulers of the time , and envy, ignorance and prejudice that
powerful enemies .
everything with all the implications , unless you get your hopes up
blind " ( CM , Page 53) , and then frankly admits , " although we
hand "to people of genius enough to have shown the place and now
site more than enough. A fact we do not think about it at all but a
powerful that it had to its courts without seeing it for what it was ,
many who could fill with wonder the short time with their
quackery . )
especially because these days I see very few true philosophers "
such conduct " would disturb many , not to mention some new
names and new inventions considerations are required " , Page 5
AM .
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Let us now return to the mystery of Clavis Magna and the answer
for the last of his thought, that people educated of the time could
times were turning for the worse with his imminent expulsion from
Frankfurt said to the press Clavis Magna , with the title as simple
caution neces-
The title refers to the same definition cited above : " The Clavis
What else can be the Clavis Magna if not domination of the way to
writing .
hypothesis :
1 ) The fact that the loci mentioned are still shut up real estate,
principles, such as the theory of the three worlds, the light and
institutions;
constitute the link with the subject of the second book of the Clavis
Bruno;
imagination." (or , Pag 52) , and again right after "if you do not
intend to keep the ghosts." But not enough, the footnotes to the
first pages of the CM can be seen as they are a
topic
Bruno's main text relates to the use of the imagination in the form
Great.
and other
works , the identification with the Clavis Magna will be safe only
when we
De imaginum .
Wraps: species ,
notes,
Notae ,
Characteres Seals .
other
means to achieve his end, that sensible things, and figured certain
for time and place, as we have mentioned that occurs in all other
technical operations of the soul (see the first volume of the Clavis
Magna ) .
practice of this art. The first explores who and what should be the
subject . the
second and teaches them that way are the forms to appresiare . the
third
teaches you to adapt the instrument , the means by which the soul
operates
v. . images , and anything else loci , both in the first and second
book.
receptacles
parts and holds all things seen and heard receiving them according
to their own
order and how the soul pleases. And this definition covers the
subject's
that has
Magna:
the chaos of the fantasy may treat in such a way that the power of
cogitative,
representation so that
with his limbs first and his last part is able to give birth with great
fecundity and submit the same things perceived with the ears and
eyes
world.
winds,
assuming all
Certainly, as this subject is fruitful and noble, you can better judge
those who
AM , p.70 , CAP. VI: Merge the platitudes the clichés, the least
common
the less common, its their own, the more the individual and their
to the individual. Now you can see that not only will you be free
from all
fear of oblivion, but will become more ready and more secure in
And you have this in its own way in the roots of the first book of
chain.
the individual
subjects between them while keeping intact the ends of each, and
also in
more, and longer, as you can see in the arcana of Clavis Magna.
generally
and what are the ways to provoke them , to keep them and
ingenious
roots of Clavis Magna: and has made known and explained the
mentally note
shape
things heard or seen with convenient numbers to its kind, with the
same
order of the numbers, so conceive the order of the thing, felt so,
they count easily and it's very easy to learn and to remember them.
on the formation
this
semimatematic numbers.
this art, in fact, we consider them in the book of Clavis Magna that
is
fixation .
Sciences
loci
Cubili of
concinenti
and assonant
.
action, such as robber from the theft. If, however, some will
imagine other ways besides those listed, consider them all included
which more
terms are juxtaposed, as long as you have mastered the use of the
Clavis Magna
Magna and
"That's why
We dare say that no matter what the ancients on this topic thought,
taught and
part
where dedicated
view (for
reality differs
limited
of
view of performance
therefore
31).
should also
be used to interpret the Bruno's other works, which in some ways
are connected,
works, and in
the atria.
Clavis Magna
saying that
ever
expect, on
magician with
dark cloak sprinkled with stars, the cone hat and wand core.
Not and has never been written by Bruno the work of "magic star"
incantations and occult "magical operations ", all this was part
fillature in the embrace of the last ghosts of the Middle Ages , not
the man
mission
steep
comes to state
their
sky, talk the circumference of the stars, to allow the arrow to point
works, along with the undeniable advantages, while " Nolan cause
to the effects
in the prison of the turbulent winds ", ie, in the imagination , " the
toast,
presence of each sense and region , this key allow the inquisition
the covered
and veiled nature, has donated the eyes of moles, enlightened the
see to fix his eyes and gaze and imagin its many mirrors opposed
on each side , dissolved in silent language that he knew not, and
did not dare to express intricate feelings , reuse the lame Valean
not make progress with that spirit that can not make the ignoble
worse those bodies that we see far below catered to what and to
whom we are united, opens our eyes to see this god, our mother,
who in his spine nourishes and feeds it, after productivity from his
lap, back to what I always riaccoglie, and she does not think the
addition to be a body without a soul and life, and even the dregs
openly because "does fring for any of this burden, but for those
only for rare lucky, and open to those "...who do not incapacitate
only to warn and not to consider are called orbital, which is the
case for the privation of the act itself, and not the de faculty again.
" , p. 37 .
will try to identify cultural trends present in all of our era, that was
Chapter II
us to think about the rhetoric, given that these are the three
that make the case convincing. The arrangement and the ordering
an end in itself. And that have been written by others. Yet it is also
true that the study of the works of the great thinkers and poets are
useful to learn and apply to the art of our time, of which they were
masters .
You can then adapt the codes used as the final expression in the
between similar figures to suggest to the mind the models which fit
crystallized ?
reader being the first person to recognize and reveal the truth of his
words, not the writer to provide a ready made truth, or rather pre-
digested .
This does not mean that he wastes his clear and distinct thoughts
function of separate the various topics, so that they can not mix or
others, also allows you to spare yourself the direct exposure and
precise point it shows that regardless of the true point of view from
which there arises, examining it. "We do not want to write or even
but helping others to discover their own, the job of the midwife,
his students can do, who are the subject of his art as educator? And
which revolve the other parts. The invention is no longer one of the
given to reason, and the next question: What do I know about this
2 . The Atri
version, is that the latter uses a geometric layout and not "real
such as altar and church , or prison and home, so that they are
The first figure order under the heading "altar" all the clichés
3 . The Cubili
The atria reveal their utility in the memory of things, but they are
adverbs or adjectives. For this sector Bruno has come up with the
Bacchae and contains words that start with the first consonant , B,
begin with AB and OB , but later models will be provided for the
other .
DOLATOR
( Stonecutters )
addition Idolatry
adolescence Idea
Are taken into account only the 12 consonants that occur in second
do not
replacing the vowels that precede and follow it and you will find
the word you need, because it has its first three letters .
It's a game and a job that must be done at the beginning with the
sound of the syllable and not to its meaning, for which they are
by the word aegritudo ( illness), but there is IC with icon, HEIC
an actual software to get the words from the depths of the mind
for example, that grazing cows , the rallies, the milk, clean the
actions of the cattleman who fall into the category of evil are
consonant .
The consonants on the corners of the central triangles are the
the center of the triangles indicates the lateral third and fourth
letttera and consonants at the corners are the third and fourth
think , speak at the right and at the right act , according to the
Triumphant Beast .
take place in the courts and give life to such fantastic tales , true
language .
support for the memory to recall facts and names, but can be used
the second hall of the altar, while in the lobby of the jail sequence
will snare (a man with his hands tied ) , psaltery, parrot, old ,
, t, e, m are hell , swimming pool, kept , camel and honey (see the
We note that while the construction of the first hall the east of the
altar is placed in the upper right , in the courts following the east is
moved to the top left, and consequently the letters of the atrium
add even a hint of trouble and mystery, then , Our firm holds the
three images at the bottom right of the list , and instead indicate the
CONSONANTS
memorized all the important sites you can contemplate all together
atrium and the TRO syllable of the throne , and from the atrium of
the baths you take the syllable TEM temple . Just reverse the first
or the image of the temple which is located in the lobby of the spa
you can put the figures of a dog and a Templar , not inanimate , of
course, but a dog biting the temple , then the sound of the first
since, for example, ortem could also be the name of a place and
Bruno could not ignore the fact, but this drawback for memory is
proof that you are now moving away from mnemonics to enter the
Not the memory but the insight comes strongly into play here ,
But the song titled second example of the combination is also the "
added " in fact images of living beings, humans and animals that
roam in the atria and make them live emotionally , and verbal
of the dog at the temple and the temple : in the Italian language is
of those who are absolutely out of place and could continuous the
hostility of the present , as animals are driven from the sacred site .
So while the Templar, monaco warrior who defends the holy place
wonders what use or damage could arise from it and make a list of
reasoning and thereby participate in the emotions that are the fuel
of imagination.
where the
All that we have seen so far does not seem to have anything to do
with magic , but also wanting to continue in this case, one can not
meaning by this term the words that are represented by the images
. In the first place can be connected to the initial end of a region , ie
remember Apollo.
Finally, you can " encrypt " for purposes mnemonic expression on
VEXA(N )T. But the composition of words does not happen only
that a few simple images may contain syllables that make up the
whole speech.
Finally, after the Atri , are the fields that are of Atri enlarged, in
which 54 terms are listed with a few logical relationship with the
field name . These cards with a variety of objects , names, concepts
to consult when you want to talk about that field : the king or
4 . the Archetypes
The Brunian archetypes can not be defined with one word, unless
you use the traditional name: Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, etc. .. But
and joviality, but also the Authority and Power, Magnanimity, but
considered as figures
cassocks of the assistants of the Sun and the Half is given by the
operator , etc. .
treatment that could make disappear , with the healing of the sick .
" He loves it when a refugee and is abandoned and hates joy and
But along with the description of the disease we even care , which
ones.
face under the black rust of the bowed front , ragged , emaciated
horses that whip and tired which dragged the wagon proceeding
he had not been fully revealed before : " a child on a the mountain,
around the mountain, a river, at the two girls and boy near a goat
feeding , "or" a boy and a girl in the lap of Fortune , one of which
takes the right breast and the other on the left, " and so on.
The images of the jovial boy , the girl , the mountain goat suckling
And this is the most beatyfull invitation you can imagine in the
world with no regrets for what the world might be. An act of
the phrase " I am , therefore, I can and will ." Non- acceptance of
operator.
hilarious ." This is possible when you are not only masters of their
our mental projections , both ghosts that live only in our minds.
but with a few centuries in advance and with the use of a reasoning
merely philosophical .
Above all, it must be stressed that it does not come into play the
having complied with the images , rather than having promoted the
use , and in Bruno's speech can not be found dangers of " sagging
proposed techniques.
very definition .
The same can be said of the vehicle and so on for all the other 23
Page 171).
It should be noted the similarity between the names of the atria and
the list of attributes that will be proposed at the end of Book II :
Altar ............................principle
Basilica .......................HalfÂ
prison
Domus
Equleus
Fons
Gladio
Horoscopo
Ignis
Jugum .
lantern
canteen
nest
fold
pabulum
Quadriga
Networks .
mirror
Terme.
vehicle
port
Junction of Pythagoras
Xenium
Z , elotypiae clavis
end
convenience
discrimination
contrariness
love
diction
nonsense
blessing
curse
action
beauty
size
exiguity
duration
however , at least
excluded that the second book has to do with the mnemonic also
corre-
5 . The Seals
the most part very simple , engraved on a tile, which was intended
, city of origin , the particular use which type of vessel that was
.
The ability to replace the sign to the symbol , from metaphorical
language rather than rational logic , has been developed since the
religious song .
stone of the Christian monasteries , which were the supports for the
mathematics.
arts -
known, does not mean that we deny the validity of what we know
Truth and beauty are the qualities of the divine , one in the field of
when you feel the beauty of truth and the truth of beauty you are
close to the True and the Beautiful .
We are aware of the fact that these few remarks do not exhaust the
works . You have to torture the text to force him to tell everything
hides , and as such , the atria and cubili can be made to fit in the
memory of each of the other letters of the syllables and sounds and
more "natural " in the sense that the closed spaces are less common
in nature and therefore not open ones when it comes to you can not
manifested between the '300 and '600 enhance the mental faculties
The repressive attitude was enough to ensure the ruling class all
it was enough to cut all contact with the Counter with thought
and to the lazy dozing conscience of the time . Cius deceased royal
But the emphasis placed by the Jacobins of the majority and then
you had to develop modern capitalism and then you had to get in
What for nature, God or the Great Architect of the Universe would
provide us with an organ cases oversized compared to the use that
has been made so far , if not with a view to its use full ? Today,
why wars break out ? Because the excess of production forces the
themselves. Then there were the wars between socialist states , but
this did not prove anything, according to the Marxists , because the
made u
p of citizens and Christian rulers rejects war , because
both categories of men keep the teaching that one must love one's
correctly .
and approve, but I follow worse.). The split between feeling , pen -
thought and action could not be better represented . Bruno with his
tolerant and loving with each other and if it is true that you have to
clarity of our ideas, for one thing, and then our words and finally
phrase " Be my brother or I'll kill you ," tragic because too many
comical because the poor man that spoke did not realize that the
6 . recapitulation
and decoding , conversion from sign to sign , and vice versa , the
with astrology
could take any form , a clear allusion to the passage from symbol
When you decode the story passing from the symbolic to the
of words.
current culture make us prefer the term art , because the thought
urges .
by Guenon , for example, but we can still catch some affinity with
concentration.
judgment.