A Sketch of Universal Wisdom

...schemes original: "tionibus," completing "inventionibus" from the previous page. (Ecclesiastes 7:30) and, according to Seneca’s complaint, they follow the flock of those going before them in the manner of sheep, going not where they ought to go, but where everyone else is going. original: "non quò eundum est, sed quô itur." From Seneca’s "On the Happy Life," critiquing those who follow social trends rather than reason. For this disorder ataxia: A Greek term meaning a lack of order, confusion, or irregularity. no other remedy is provided than that All things, which a person encounters or can encounter, should be reduced into a fixed order, with the weights and values of each clearly standing out. In this way, each person may clearly see for themselves and thoroughly understand what should be prioritized or postponed, or what should be more or less attended to, loved, doubted, and acted upon. This is not possible without a universal foreknowledge and reconsideration of all things. For indeed, all things that exist are so woven together by divine craftsmanship original: "divino artificio" (which Universal Wisdom will make clear) that each thing exists not so much for its own sake as for the sake of others. From this it happens that all things are mutually coherent and serve one another, and they illuminate each other (not only those that are similar and different, but even those that are opposites). Just as this becomes evident even in the body of any living creature, how all the members—the greatest and smallest, the highest and lowest, the first and the last—mutually serve one another: so that, if you take one away,