PANSOPHIA original Latin: "PANSOPHIÆ"

be taught to fix itself, so that at last man, removed from the periphery of things, may find himself in the center of all things: GOD.

XVII. Regarding the composition of such a Pansophic BOOK, so that these thoughts may be seriously undertaken, the very order of Divine Providence The belief that God intervenes in the world and guides human history toward a specific end. now leads us there; the Necessities of the human race compel us; and present opportunities invite us. To have explained these three things will be to have laid the foundations of the Pansophic Temple.

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XVIII. GOD, because He is wise, acts in an orderly manner in all things, each in its own time; as the wise Solomon speaks: and because He is good, He acts well. This is the process of an ordered Good: that it grows as it goes, progressing from Good to Better, from Lesser to Greater, until it reaches that than which nothing greater or better can be given—that is, toward Perfection. All the examples of His works testify to this process of God's wisdom.

XIX. Thus, although He could have produced the World in a single moment, He nevertheless willed to employ a stretch of time, and a gradual succession of forms impressing themselves upon matter: His works