OF UNIVERSAL WISDOM

...all methods and ways so clearly in everyone's sight, that by seeing they might see, and, captured by the sweetness of true Bliss original: "Beatitudo," referring to the ultimate state of happiness and spiritual fulfillment. (which true Wisdom alone both reveals and gives a foretaste of), they all might be set on fire with a burning love for it. This is precisely what Pansophia A term meaning "Universal Wisdom," representing Comenius's project to organize all human knowledge into a single, harmonious system. seeks and hopes for through its paths of full Universality, Truth, and Ease.

XXIX. For because there are many, and in a way infinite, things that Men have as objects of attention in this life: both outside themselves—things natural and man-made, moral and spiritual, good and bad; as well as inside themselves—inclinations, desires, and various affections; and finally, alongside themselves—the opinions, interests, efforts, and actions of other men, which are widely diverse: it cannot happen otherwise than that they are variously distracted and confused by all these things. Thus, they do not do what most needed to be done, but as anyone happens to stumble here or there, so they allow themselves to be entangled. Hence it happens that, although God made man upright, they involve themselves in infinite questions and busi- This is a reference to the Bible, Ecclesiastes 7:29: "God made man upright, but they have sought out many schemes."

Pansophia (Universal Wisdom), Bliss, Wisdom, Universality, Truth, Ease, God