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Ars Brevis | | |
7. The Table
7. Questions about the Table
51. Question: is the world eternal? Go to
column BCD and maintain the negative
answer. And you will find in camera BCTB
that if it were eternal, there would be many
different species of eternity, which would
be concordant by camera BCTC against
camera BCTD, which is impossible. Thus
it follows that the answer to the question
must be negative, and rule B proves this.
52. Question: can God be as infinite in his
greatness as in his eternity? Go to
column CDE and camera CDTC, and
maintain the affirmative answer against
camera CDTD.
53. Question: can God do as much with
eternity as with intellect? Go to column
DEF and camera DETD.
54. Is God as powerful in his powering as
in his understanding and loving? Go to
column EFG. And maintain the affirmative
with camera EFTE, and with camera
EFTF, and with camera EFTG until you
have exhausted the entire column.
55. Are God's intellect and will greater
than God's virtue? Go to column FGH, and
maintain the negative answer through all
the cameras of this column, as you draw
upon the meanings of the cameras.
56. Is divine truth as virtuous due to its
equal correlatives, as is divine will? Go to
column GHI and maintain the affirmative
answer with all the cameras of this
column.
57. Do God's innate virtue, glory and truth
have the wherewithal to be equal and
removed from time, place and minority?
Go to column HIK, and maintain the
affirmative answer through all the cameras.
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