OF UNIVERSAL WISDOM original: "PANSOPHIÆ." From the Greek roots pan (all) and sophia (wisdom). This was the author's term for a unified system of all human knowledge integrated with divine revelation.

...it must be considered how we may advance ourselves even to the final level of knowledge (at least that which can be hoped for in this earthly Life). Namely, that we might make our knowledge (1) completely UNIVERSAL, disfigured by no harmful gaps; (2) completely TRUE, contaminated by no mixture of the false and the vain; (3) completely easy, hindered by no thorns or rough paths of obscurity and ambiguity, but flowing spontaneously into our minds.

VIII. If it is granted that we obtain these three things, our human Knowledge original: "Scientia." In this period, "science" referred to any structured body of certain knowledge, not just the natural sciences. will be in some way perfect, as a beautifully shining image of divine Omniscience This refers to the "Imago Dei" or Image of God; the author believes that by perfecting our knowledge, we restore the divine likeness lost in the Fall of Man. within us. It will dispose us so that—striving along the same paths, through the same means, toward the same ends—we may unlearn our usual discords and the vanities of any side-matters side-matters original: "parerga." A Greek term for secondary works or distractions that lead one away from the main path of study., knowing how to think, act, and speak only those things which are best.

IX. We propose, therefore, that a Book must be composed which contains EVERYTHING necessary for a human being for this and the future life: for knowing and doing, for believing and hoping.