THE BOOK OF LIGHT - LIBER DE LUMINE
by Blessed Raymond Lull
Doctor Illuminatus and Martyr

GOD
With the grace and virtue of your Light
We now begin the Book of Light

FOREWORD
1. Whereas the intellect reproduces species by attracting likenesses from physical and imaginable things to its coessential and natural intelligible part in which it makes them intelligible, we now write this Book of Light which enables the intellect to become fluent in the science of the General Art, and this book proceeds according to the mode of the General Art (Ars Magna, or Ars Generalis Ultima) whose Principles and Rules it adopts. Now this Book is like a knot tied in a rope to prompt the memory to recollect things.

2. By virtue of its subject, this Book will enlighten the intellect and stimulate it to understand intelligible things artificially and to discover natural beings with their secrets; this Book is meant to be an Art of Understanding subsidiary to the General Art from which it arises; and it deals above all with natural things associated to the intellect in providing doctrine about the light of truth. The subject of this Book is that illumination with which all other sciences are illuminated.

HOW THIS BOOK IS DIVIDED
This Book has three Distinctions. The first deals with the Tree and the Principles, Rules and Definitions of the Principles of the General Art. The second deals with the Definitions of light and the ten Rules. The Third deals with Questions about the nine modes of being outside of which nothing can exist.

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