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

with an elegant effort and one most worthy of such an author.

4. When this work had come into our hands, it was an incentive for us, who have long favored the Lullian art, to meditate, according to the modesty of our judgment, on certain things that might serve to illustrate it. Hence was born our Pantosophic Table, synoptically encompassing the principles of the art, by which, once instructed, you may be able to penetrate into everything knowable. How you ought to grasp it and put it to use, we will teach briefly and in summary for the present, reserving a more diffuse exposition of it for another time by certain design.

CHAPTER II.

What the Lullian art is and what it promises.

You may conveniently call the Lullian Art Pantosophy universal wisdom; for it is an ingenious and wonderful epitome of all Hermetic, Pythagorean, Platonic, Aristotelian, and Scholastic philosophy, but also of the Sacred Mosaic, Prophetic, and Christian philosophy, both Old and New; by whose benefit you may