Silence After the Clamors

described. To say nothing now of the movements of the mind, the rational soul, and the intellect: are these things not all together, though they are present, hidden as if in a special cavern, a deep and dark dungeon? Indeed, the hyperphysica metaphysical and supernatural properties that belong to this are surrounded by such a dark mist of ignorance that even the slightest of their causes has hardly become known to students of nature and philosophers. The remaining works and effects of nature are so varied and differ so much that they cannot be recounted, let alone fathomed. Therefore, the wisest Socrates—as this name was bestowed upon him by the oraculo oracle itself—rightly said that he knew or understood nothing, save only this: that he knew nothing.

For just as the size and circumference of this earth is very great in consideration of and in comparison to the human body, but is to be considered as nothing in comparison to the heavens, and almost imperceptible, so too is all the knowledge and understanding of the most