"The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast," _Spaccio de la bestia trionfante_, 1584,[67] was dedicated to Sir Philip Sidney. In form an allegorical, satirical prose poem, it is in fact an introduction to a new ethical system. A repentant Jupiter resolves to drive out the numerous beasts that occupy his heavenly firmament--the constellations--and to replace them by the virtues, with Truth as their crown. He calls a council of the gods to consider this plan, and in the discussion that follows numberless topics are touched upon--the history of religions, the contrast between natural and positive religion, and the fundamental forms of morality. The _Spaccio_ is, however, preparatory to a future work, in which moral philosophy shall be treated "by the inner light which the divine intellectual sun has irradiated into my soul," says Bruno;[68] in it, and other dialogues, the whole structure of the philosophy is to be completed, of which the _Bestia_ is merely a tentative sketch.[69] Jupiter represents the human spirit; and the constellations, the Bear, the Scorpion, etc., are the vices of the age, which are to be driven out by Bruno's hierarchy of virtues. The work, which is rich in both moral and religious suggestion, was early regarded as an attack on the Pope or the Church, the supposed "Triumphant Beast." Gaspar Schopp, for example, writes to that effect after witnessing Bruno's death. It is really an attack upon all religions of mere credulity as opposed to religions of truth and of deeds. The "Cabal" (_Cabala del Cavallo Pegaseo, con l' Aggiunta dell' Asino Cillenico_) was published in 1585.[70] It is dedicated to an imaginary Bishop of Casamarciano, who represents the spirit of backwardness, ignorant simplicity, and was not a real person, as some biographers supposed. It is a still more biting, a merciless satire on Asinity (_i.e._ ignorance, credulity, and unenquiring faith in religion). In a later work[71] there is a remark on the _Asinus Cillenicus_, "the image and figure of the animal are well known, many have written on it, we among the rest, in a particular fashion; but as it displeased the vulgar, and failed to please the wise, for its sinister meaning, the work was suppressed." Whether this refers to the whole _Cabala_, or to the last part of it, is not known. [Sidenote: _Heroici Furori_, 1585.]