Table of Sacred and Profane Pantosophy Redacted into the Art of Raymund Lull

discovered an art of disputing and discerning soundly and truthfully about any matter whatsoever, having for the most part omitted the conceptibilia conceivable things/concepts of the Scholastics.

2. That Art subsequently found many admirers, and also no fewer haters; and after having struggled with these for a long time, it finally achieved victory, such that, confirmed by the privileges and Bulls of Caesars and Popes, it publicly triumphed over all its detractors, especially with the added approval of the Council of Trent and the judgment of a great many learned men, who have expended manifold labor in expounding and illustrating it, as their various commentaries testify.

3. Among those who have most recently made the said Art manifest to the world, the man above praise, Athanasius Kircher, that great architect of stupendous Works, must deservedly be named by us. He, under the sacred auspices of the Caesars FERDINAND III and LEOPOLD I, recently published a splendid volume titled The Great Art of Knowing, or Combinatorial Art, by which he strove to extract the Lullian invention and render it richer with new additions;