The Sequel to the Count of Gabalis

on the Secret Sciences.

show that your great grievance
against Aristotle comes from the fact that his
strange Philosophy is suited to
prove that there is a God. You have
said it, my son, he said to me, this
Philosophy is the ruin of Faith;
there is nothing in Religion that one
cannot undertake to prove
by it. Is it not by this dan-
gerous manner of reasoning, and by
this unfortunate principle, that the fana-
tic Raymond Lulle Ramon Llull (c. 1232–1315) was a philosopher and mystic who created a logical system known as the "Great Art," designed to prove the core tenets of Christianity (like the Trinity) to non-believers through reason alone. believed he could de-
monstrate the Trinity, and the Incarnation;
and has not the most ignorant of the Disciples of
this extravagant man, had the te-
merity to say that he sees more clearly
than the day into these mysteries?
Behold the fruit of Aristotle's Philosophy.
Let us, for God's sake, root out this
cursed tree, and work with all our
strength to exterminate this enemy of
the Faith: I would wish to die for this
quarrel, and I would believe myself a mar-
tyr. Your zeal is admirable and sin-
gular, I said to him: but is it that
by your Philosophy one could not
prove that there is a God, that the—

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