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

art, worthy of being studied with the utmost effort.

2. Our Lullius wrote at length on this matter in part X of the Great Art, which treats of application; but if we wish to confess the truth, he treated it with such hidden artifice that he left hardly a trace of a clear method. I think it is for this reason that men of the sharpest judgment have hesitated here, not grasping by what reason the general knowledge of principles leads to the solid investigation of special things.

3. We recommend here, first of all, that gradual ascent and descent so often mentioned by Lullius, especially in the exposition of the figures: where he teaches 1. to view each principle by itself and in its most general state. 2. To contract one principle to another and thus make it subaltern. 3. To join it to singulars so that it becomes most specific, e.g., under the most general goodness, which is the principle of the Art, you may constitute great goodness, lasting goodness, etc. as more specific; furthermore, under these subalterns, goodness