BRUNO AND
SILESIUS
247
In that which the stars showed to
human
senses they beheld something of
the nature of soul, something spiritual.
was one kind of speech that the things and processes upon earth spoke to man; It
quite another, that of the shining stars,
beyond the moon which seemed filling
space.
like
the
in
some
pure
asther,
spiritual nature
Nicholas of Cusa had
al-
ready formed other ideas.
Through Copernicus, earth became
man
a brother-being in face of the other
heavenly others.
to
for
show
bodies,
a
star
moving
like
All the difference that earth has for
man
to this: that earth
He was no
he could now reduce is
his dwelling-place.
longer forced to think differ-
ently about the events of this earth and
those of the rest of universal space.
The
world of his senses had expanded
itself
into the
most remote
spaces.
He was