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W. CHR. KRIEGSMANNI

INTRODUCTION

to the Pantosophic Table of the Lullian Art

Chapter I.

The origins and progress of the Art.

1.

A large ornamental woodcut initial 'Q' is set within a square frame, decorated with intricate scrolling floral motifs and a central mandorla shape.When, in the fourth century from this time, around the year of Christ 1300, all things were clamoring with the Scholastic Doctors, and it was little short of the case that, with the reasons of things having been converted into mere secondary notions, every more solid mode of philosophizing was nearly perishing, there arose a certain Raymund Lull of Majorca, a Monk of the Order of Preachers, who, being about to bring aid to the study of real Wisdom then already expiring, by the guidance of celestial light,