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Lull's Book of
Propositions
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3 - Forming Cameras
To form cameras for seeking out and finding particulars, the senses, imagination, memory, will and intellect
must participate in the same way as described in the
two previous parts of this section, while at the outset the intellect determines a simple camera of
T., or A. or of the other figures that is most suitable for
investigating and finding the required particular and the will chooses this camera. Next, this camera
is combined with another camera best suited for investigating
the properties of the required particular, and likewise a third camera is added that best fits the requirements
of the particular investigation at hand.
These three simple cameras lined up in any of the figures made of concentric circles result in one compound
camera, where each circle has a simple camera.
Note, moreover, that as each compound camera is formed on one side of the Common figure, likewise another
compound camera is formed on the other side of the
same figure in order to discourse with T. through A., or S., or A.S., or S.V. or other figures in greater
or lesser number as required for investigating the particular
issue at hand. Then the senses and imagination discourse through both figures on either side, while
memory remembers the propositions of the cameras so that
the intellect can discover and the will can choose a concluding judgment.
And note that in order to form the two said cameras composed in six circles the senses and the imagination
must discourse through all the other cameras to
corroborate the initial two cameras, while memory remembers their propositions and the will desires
the concordance of all cameras so the intellect can rise to the
universal and from there, descend again to the particular, without any contrariety between the universal
and particular.
And the things said about forming cameras in six circles also apply to forming cameras on the other
side in the two circles containing the elements and in the
three circles of T., all in accordance with the general and special properties of the particular that
is to be sought out by means of the elements or of T.
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