Nicholas Of Cusa – A Medieval Cardinal Who Was
Convinced Extraterrestrials Exist
September
17, 2015
Ellen
Lloyd – MessageToEagle.com – Nicholas of
Cusa, also known as Nicolaus Cusanus, Nicholas of Kues and Nicolaus Krebs, was
a man who wasn’t afraid of speaking his mind and voice opinions that were
unorthodox at that time.
Not
only did he opposed Aristotle’s views that Earth centered Universe, but he also
argued for the existence of extraterrestrials.
Nicholas
of Cusa was a priest who lived in the 15th century. You might think that his
challenging views would be troublesome for the Vatican, but his
thought-provoking opinions views did not stop him from becoming a cardinal
later.
Officially,
the idea that there might be extraterrestrial life in the Universe became first
known in the 20th Century as the theory the Plurality of Worlds. Nicholas of
Cusa was a thinker ahead of his time.
Nicholas
of Cusa had a unique view on extraterrestrial life. In his book De docta
ignorantia, i.e., Learned Ignorance (1439-40) he clearly expressed that
extraterrestrials exist living on other planets:
“Life,
as it exists on Earth in the form of men, animals and plants, is to be found,
let us suppose in a high form in the solar and stellar regions. Rather than
think that so many stars and parts of the heavens are uninhabited and that this
earth of ours alone is peopled – and that with beings perhaps of an inferior
type – we will suppose that in every region there are inhabitants, differing in
nature by rank and all owing their origin to God, who is the center and
circumference of all stellar regions.
Of
the inhabitants then of worlds other than our own we can know still less having
no standards by which to appraise them.
It
may be conjectured that in the area of the sun there exist solar beings, bright
and enlightened denizens, and by nature more spiritual than such as may inhabit
the moon – who are possibly lunatics – whilst those on earth are more gross and
material.”
It
would seem that Nicholas of Cusa had difficulties to make up his mind on the
nature of these extraterrestrial beings.
Sometimes
when writing that the Earth is perhaps inhabited by lesser beings” than dwell
on other globes, he argued that mankind is inferior.
On
other occasions he said that mankind is superior. He said for example that
there is nothing nobler and more perfect than our spiritual nature.
Nicholas
of Cusa was not being logically consistent neither he nor we do know the nature
of extraterrestrials.
One
reason why Nicholas of Cusa contemplated on the existence of extraterrestrials
was because he opposed Aristotle’s views that Earth was the center of the
Universe. In his opinion, God was the center of the universe not the Earth.
“The
universe has no circumference, for if it had a center and a circumference there
would be some and some thing beyond the world, suppositions which are wholly
lacking in truth.
Since,
therefore, it is impossible that the universe should be enclosed within a
corporeal center and corporeal boundary, it is not within our power to
understand the universe, whose center and circumference are God. And though the
universe cannot be infinite, nevertheless it cannot be conceived as finite
since there are no limits within which it could be confined.”
Since
God is outside the physical world, an intelligent being’s rightful place is
anywhere. There could be animals, plants and even intelligent beings on other
planets.
The
writings and ideas of Nicholas of Cusa did not go unnoticed. He became an
inspiration for several astronomers and great thinkers such as Giordano Bruno
in the 16th Century and Tomaso Campanella in the 17th.
Both
René Descartes in the 17th Century and the French astronomer François Arago in
the 19th Century cite Nicholas as a religious man who believed in the Plurality
of Worlds. Nicholas of Cusa was also mentioned by Christian Huygens, the
Bishops John Wilkins and Francis Godwin, and Otto von Guericke in the 17th
Century, and Voltaire in the 18th Century. They often cited him on whether
extraterrestrials are superior or inferior to man.
Nicholas
of Cusa endorsed the idea of other inhabited worlds. Today it is an idea that
few would debate, but in his times it was an unorthodox and challenging theory.~
Written
by Ellen Lloyd – MessageToEagle.com
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About
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Ellen Lloyd – is the owner of MessageToEagle.com and an author who has spent more than 20 years researching ancient mysteries, sacred texts, and the existence of extraterrestrial life.
Ellen Lloyd – is the owner of MessageToEagle.com and an author who has spent more than 20 years researching ancient mysteries, sacred texts, and the existence of extraterrestrial life.
She is the author of Voices From Legendary Times in which she demonstrates that races of men have inhabited Earth for millions of years, but not all of them were human.
In
addition, Ellen has written many articles about prehistoric alien visitations,
ancient mysteries and alternative history.
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