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Lull's Book of
Propositions
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Part 2
B.
1. B. is a universal being in which C.D. gather many particulars.
2. B. attracts its act to itself from the acts of C.D. through similarity.
3. As memories fade, so B. remains permanently, because it does not produce its likenesses from its
essence.
C.
1. As C. has an appetite for increase, it produces its likeness in the act of understanding.
2. C. does not produce its likeness from its entity, it rather produces it from its light.
3. C. is a clarifying power so great that without being held back by corporeal impediments it would
incessantly produce its likeness.
D.
1. The will is never constrained in E.N., only in I.R.
2. D. wills what is suitable and moves H. not to will what is unsuitable.
3. As D. loves its likeness it also loves itself and as D. loves itself it produces its likeness.
E.
1. E. is a being aggregated from the likenesses of B.C.D.
2. In accordance with greater or lesser influence from B.C.D., E. can be great or small.
3. E. is an illuminated species or figure in which the soul represents its likeness through B.C.D.
F.
1. B.F. are distinguished through D.H. as willing and not willing differ in D.H.
2. With license from B., F. produces its likeness in one way in G. and in another way in H.
3. F. produces its likeness in H. with justice, and its unlikeness with injustice.
G.
1. As C. seeks to obtain its likeness, it causes G. to investigate in order to produce an act of understanding.
2. As G. cannot essentially increase itself, it seeks to grow through its likeness.
3. G., with its light, agrees with objects through F. and also with its light, G. resists objects through
H.
H.
1. As D. is suited to being, H. is the instrument used by D.against non being.
2. Whenever D. causes H., H. proceeds from non being toward being, but whenever H. causes D., then D.
proceeds from being toward non being.
3. H. always agrees with nothingness in its object.
I.
1. As unreasonable things exist, A. created I. for defending E. so that E. would not accept anything
unreasonable.
2. I. is sometimes greater on account of F., sometimes on account of G. and sometimes on account of
H.
3. Just like the elements are transmuted from one substantial being into another, F.G.H. are transmuted
from one thing to another.
K.
1. Essential memory constantly transmits its influence to S. but as B.F. cannot transmit their essence
along with their influence, K. is produced.
2. K. is a stoppage of the influences of B.F. by some impediment.
3. Just as the likeness of essential memory appears in B. so does its unlikeness appear in K.
L.
1. As it is a greater thing to produce one's being in another than to produce one's likeness from nothing,
L. is the extinction of C.
2. As essential intellect transmits its influence to S., and as L. is the privation of C., the presence
of L. is absent from S.
3. L. is a privation of the likenesses of essential memory, essential intellect and essential will.
M.
1. M. is a likeness of D.H. deprived of their influence.
2. M. exists so that faith may exist, and supposition exists so that K. may be transmuted into B. or
F. and so that L. may be transmuted into C. or G.
3. As A. is revealed through likenesses, so is essential will revealed through the unlikeness of M.
N.
1. N. is aggregated from likenesses of being and non being.
2. As N. approaches nothingness on account of K.L., M. seeks to attain either E. or I.
3. The loss of B. on account of K., or of C. on account of L., is sometimes repaired in N.
O.
1. O. is a confused mixture of likenesses and unlikenesses of B.F.
2. O. is generated from the weaknesses and strengths of B.F.
3. O. is sometimes a remedy when B.F.need rest after hard work.
P.
1. P. is a terminal point where the influence of C.G. begins to wax and wane.
2. C.G. show their likenesses in P. as they are transmuted from being into non being and back.
3. As there is less goodness in malice, so there is less of C.G. in P.
Q.
1. As N. supplements what is lacking in E.I., Q. is greater on account of M., than O. on account of
B., or P. on account of C.G.
2. Equal proportions of D.H.M. cannot exist in Q.
3. The soul's virtue moves haphazardly in Q.
R.
1. R. is where the generation and corruption of likenesses of the soul's powers takes place.
2. R. is a confused entity, an aggregate of the presence and absence of objects.
3. Because R. exists, it is not impossible to transmute E. into I., and I. into N. and back.
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