{"id":47,"date":"2008-02-17T13:16:40","date_gmt":"2008-02-17T19:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/northernway.org\/weblog\/?p=47"},"modified":"2013-03-15T05:14:52","modified_gmt":"2013-03-15T09:14:52","slug":"a-gnostic-martyrs-day-giordano-bruno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/?p=47","title":{"rendered":"A Gnostic Martyr&#8217;s Day, Giordano Bruno"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the 2nd Sunday of Lent in both the mainstream and alternative (Gnostic) churches. But according to this awesome new <a title=\"Gnostic Calendar from gnosis.org\" href=\"http:\/\/gnosis.org\/calendar\" target=\"_blank\">Gnostic calendar<\/a> I am enjoying, Feb. 17 is also a Martyr\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s day and also a modern esotericist\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s birthday.<\/p>\n<p>Birthday of Charles Leadbeater (1854-1934), Bishop and Institutor of the Liberal Catholic Church.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Giordano Bruno, Gnostic Martyr\" alt=\"Giordano Bruno, Gnostic Martyr\" src=\"http:\/\/northernway.org\/images\/GiordanoBruno.png\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"50\" \/>Day of Martyrdom of Giordan Bruno, Priest &amp; Martyr. 1548 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Feb 17, 1600 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>The statue of Giordano Bruno pictured right stands in Mexico City. He seems to be looking into our eyes, we in the future, saying, Listen, listen, if you have an ear. Think, think, if you are drawn. Wake, awake. (I was thinking Giordan or Giordano Bruno&#8217;s first name means &#8220;Jordan&#8221;, as in the sacred river of Judeo-Christianity.)<\/p>\n<p>A hermeticist, esotericist and Gnostic &#8212; very much loved by the people for his charismatic street-corner talks &#8211;, he was burned at the stake by the church. Jerks. Here&#8217;s a cool article, a different picture of him, and a bunch of inspiring quotes of his, over at Jennifer Emick&#8217;s exhaustive Alternative Religions archive.<\/p>\n<p><em>Hail Holy Giordano, Saint in our Hearts, Teacher in the Darkness, baptised in the fire&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Katia<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the 2nd Sunday of Lent in both the mainstream and alternative (Gnostic) churches. But according to this awesome new Gnostic calendar I am enjoying, Feb. 17 is also a Martyr\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s day and also a modern esotericist\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s birthday. Birthday of Charles Leadbeater (1854-1934), Bishop and Institutor of the Liberal Catholic Church. Day of Martyrdom &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/?p=47\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Gnostic Martyr&#8217;s Day, Giordano Bruno<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gnosticism","category-misc"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":722,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions\/722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}