OF UNIVERSAL WISDOM

XI. Furthermore, it is necessary that this Book be conceived using a Method In this period, "Method" referred to a systematic, pedagogical arrangement of information designed to make learning easier and more natural. precisely tailored to human minds, so that whoever reads it may understand it immediately, led everywhere by a clear light. In this way, when translated even into the common languages of the Nations, it may become as common in use as God himself, the World, and our own common perception common perception original: "Sensus communis." This refers to the shared faculty of the mind that coordinates all five senses to create a coherent experience of reality.. Indeed, this Book is nothing other than a true and genuine copy original: "apographum" of those things which the one God has revealed until now through His Works The physical world of nature, His Voice Divine revelation or scripture, and the innate Notions original: "Notionibus." These are the fundamental ideas or "seeds of knowledge" thought to be imprinted on every human soul by God. impressed upon every man's soul. It shall be a true and common torch and guide for us all toward the life to come, and a true standard and directory for everything we must do in this life.

XII. The matter, form, creator, and purpose The author is using the four Aristotelian "causes" (material, formal, efficient, and final) to argue why this book must be called "Pansophia." of such a book argue that it should be called PAN-SOPHIA From the Greek roots meaning "All-Wisdom" or "Universal Wisdom.".

XIII. For its matter meaning its subject or substance will be the whole original Greek: τὸ πᾶν (to pan), the Universe as it exists, which a wise man must not ignore. It will include whatever of good, beauty, or utility is found anywhere in Books; or even those things which do not yet exist in writing, and yet can be had...