[Footnote 162: _Op. Lat._ ii. 2. 133.] [Footnote 163: Lag. 239.] [Footnote 164: _Ib._ 252. Cf. Bacon's _Nov. Org._ i. 54:--"Aristotle, who altogether enslaved his natural Philosophy to his Logic, and so rendered it nearly useless and contentious," (_vide infra_, ch. 9).] [Footnote 165: Lag. 256.] [Footnote 166: _Ib._ 280.] [Footnote 167: _Nov. Org._ i. 62.] [Footnote 168: (_De l' Infinito_), Lag. 324.] [Footnote 169: Lag. 231.] [Footnote 170: _Ib._ 183. Cf. _Op. Lat._ i. 1. 282, 288.] [Footnote 171: Cf. _Op. Lat._ i. 1. 96, 3. 26, 3. 271; i. 1. 291; i. 3. 26; iii. 70, etc.] [Footnote 172: Lag. 282.] [Footnote 173: _Op. Lat._ ii. 2. 196, and (_Her. Fur._) Lag. 722. 35.] [Footnote 174: _Cena_, Lag. 237. 9. Cf. _Her. Fur._ Lag. 722. 35.] [Footnote 175: Lag. 256. 25, 273. 25. Cf. _Op. Lat._ i. 1. 377.] [Footnote 176: i. 1. 272.] [Footnote 177: i. 2. 148.] [Footnote 178: i. 3. 140.] [Footnote 179: _Causa_, Lag. 247.] [Footnote 180: _Op. Lat._ i. 3. 169.] [Footnote 181: Cf. _Her. Fur._, Lag. 636. If not by Iamblichus, this work issued certainly from his school, to which Julian the Apostate belonged.] [Footnote 182: _E.g. Op. Lat._ i. 1. 376.] [Footnote 183: _Ibid._] [Footnote 184: _Op. cit._] [Footnote 185: _Op. Lat._ i. 2. 409.] [Footnote 186: Lag. 532.] [Footnote 187: _i.e._ creative or original.] [Footnote 188: _Spaccio_, Lag. 533. Bruno was probably acquainted with the _De arte cabbalistica_ (1517) of Reuchlin the Platonist, and with Pico of Mirandula's _Cabalistarum selectiora obscurioraque dogmata_. Of the Cabala itself the first part (Creation) was published in Hebrew at Mantua 1562, a translation into Latin at Basle 1587: the second part, _The Book of Splendour_, Hebrew, 1560, a translation, not, as it seems, until the following century. It is unlikely that Bruno read Hebrew, although he makes use of Hebrew letters among his symbols. But there were many writings on the Cabala from which he could have derived his idea of their teaching--_e.g._ Agrippa's _Occulta Philosophia_, to which he was indebted for much of the _De Monade_. The Cabala (_i.e._ "traditional teaching") is a collection of dogmas made about the ninth and thirteenth centuries; it was certainly influenced by Neoplatonism, and contained the interpretation of creation as emanation in graduated series of beings from the one supreme Being, of the Logos or Divine Word as intermediary between the Supreme and the lower beings (viz, the material world and all sensible objects): the elements of the Logos are the Sephiroth, the ten numbers of Pythagoras, corresponding to the chief virtues or qualities; next to these are the ideas or forms, then the world-souls, and last of all material things.] [Footnote 189: _Causa_, Lag. 231.] [Footnote 190: _Op. Lat._ i. 2. 196.] [Footnote 191: _Ib._ ii. i. 48.] [Footnote 192: Plotinus, _Enneads_, ii. 4. 4; cf. Bruno's _Causa_, Lag. 267.] [Footnote 193: _Causa_, Lag. 271; cf. Plot. _Enn._ ii. 4. 3.]