Lull's Book of Propositions

bullet1 4 - The Practice of this Art
bullet2 2 - Questions
bullet3 9 - Fig. Elements

bullet4 Part 1

Igneity B.

Question 1: Can the matter of fire be ignified, and can its form ignite?

Question 2: Can the matter of fire be passive under the form of fire without any intermediary?

Solution: [Igneity, aereity, terreity.][Concordance, beginning, middle.]


Aereity C.

Question 1: Can the matter of fire be heated more than the matter of air?

Question 2: Does air have actively moistening form, and passive matter that can be moistened?

Solution: [Aereity, igneity, being.][Difference, concordance, majority.]


Aqueity D.

Question 1: Does the form of water diversify, harmonize and set opposition its matter?

Question 2: Can simple, unmixed matter of water be diversified, harmonized and polarized?

Solution: [Aqueity, simplicity, composition.][Difference, concordance, contrariety.]


Terreity E.

Question 1: Is earth cold per se or by accident?

Question 2: Can the matter of earth be ignited more than the matter of air?

Solution: [Terreity, aqueity, composition.][Beginning, middle, end.]


Being F.

Question 1: Is nature's being composed of substance and accidents?

Question 2: Is essence the source of being, and are the powers of being the source of accidents?

Solution: [Being, substance, accident.][Beginning, end, majority.]


Form G.

Question 1: Is substance produced from majority of form and matter, and accident from minority of substance?

Question 2: Within the rule and intention of nature, can there be any particular forms with no universal form?

Solution: [Form, substance, accident.][Concordance, end, majority.]


Matter H.

Question 1: In the matter of fire, can one and the same essence be illuminated, heated and ignited?

Question 2: Does the form of fire incessantly heat and illuminate all of the matter of fire?  

Solution: [Matter, form, simplicity.][Operation, beginning, end.]


Simplicity I.

Question 1: Does the simplicity of nature have a simplifying act?

Question 2: Does the form of fire actively simplify, whereas its passive matter is simplified?

Solution: [Simplicity, igneity, virtue.][Operation, concordance, majority.]


Composition K.

Question 1: Is fire a compounded power, since its form actively ignifies and its matter is passively ignified?

Question 2: Is nature composed of universals and particulars?

Solution: [Composition, being, nature.][Concordance, beginning, end.]


Substance L.

Question 1: Do substances produce one another, or are they all produced from one individual substance?

Question 2: Is substance more indivisible in its essential parts than in its integral parts?

Solution: [Substance, virtue, operation.][Difference, concordance, majority.]


Accident M.

Question 1: Are accidents an essential, or virtual part of substance?

Question 2: Is accident a universal power above many particular accidents?

Solution: [Accident, substance, virtue.][Beginning, middle, end.]


Virtue N.

Question 1: Can the virtue of substance and the virtue of matter actively individuate and be passively individuated?

Question 2: In substance, are the virtue of form and the virtue of matter one homogeneous essence?

Solution: [Virtue, substance, operation.][Difference, beginning, end.]


Operation O.

Question 1: Does the operation of universals cause individuation in particulars?

Question 2: Does the operation of nature proceed from the essences of substances and accidents?

Solution: [Operation, virtue, motion.][Beginning, end, majority.]


Interiority P.

Question 1: Why does nature's interiority reside in form, and its exteriority in matter?

Question 2: Is man outside, or inside nature?

Solution: [Interiority, form, exteriority.][Operation, beginning, end.]


Exteriority Q.

Question 1: Is God outside the world?

Question 2: Is locus outside of what is located?

Solution: [Exteriority, interiority, motion.][God, operation, end.]


Motion R.

Question 1: Does natural motion arise from substance or from accidents?

Question 2: Is motive power composed of the virtue of substance, or of accidents?

Solution: [Motion, substance, virtue.][Operation, beginning, end.]