Here Bruno, on the one hand, laments the extinction of that original and non-conventional hiero- glyphic language in which signs designated things and apparently guaran- teed communication with the divine; on the other hand, he
on the magical level the operational value of those characters, seals and figures which, according to tradition, propitiated demonic influence - it seemed possible not only to use them but also in some sense to remould them according to the dictates of a higher reason.
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