Lull's Book of Propositions

bullet1 4 - The Practice of this Art
bullet2 2 - Questions
bullet3 3 - Figure S

bullet4 Part 1

Essential Memory: B.

Question 1: Is essential memory an essence or a power of the soul?

Question 2: Is there any difference in essential memory?

Solution: [Essential memory, essential intellect, being.][Operation, concordance, end.]


Essential intellect: C.

Question 1: Was essential intellect created solely in itself, or was it created in itself as well as in something else?

Question 2: Is the light of essential intellect incessant within itself, as well as in essential memory and essential will?

Solution: [Essential intellect, essential will, form.][Concordance,majority, equality.]


Essential will: D.

Question 1: Is there any difference between essential will, and will?

Question 2: Does free will exist in essential will, or in will?

Solution: [Essential will, essential intellect, operation.][Difference, beginning, end.]


Being: E.

Question 1: Is the soul's being produced as form, or as matter?

Question 2: Is the soul's being an empowering power that produces powers after its separation from the body?

Solution: [Being, form, matter.][Operation, beginning, end.]


Form: F.

Question 1: In the rational soul, is form produced from several simple forms, and does it produce many potential and accidental forms?

Question 2: Is there any difference between substantial form and potential form?

Solution: [Form, intellect, simplicity.][End, majority, minority.]


Matter: G.

Question 1: Can the soul be a substance without any matter?

Question 2: Can matter as such reproduce itself?

Solution: [Matter, form, being.][Difference, concordance, majority.]


Conjunction: H.

Question 1: Is the conjunction in the soul made from essential or from integral parts?

Question 2: Is the conjunction in the soul made of contraries?

Solution: [Conjunction, being, operation.][Beginning, concordance, end.]


Simplicity: I.

Question 1: Is the essence of the soul simple?

Question 2: Can the soul's being be simplified?

Solution: [Simplicity, essential memory, being.][Concordance, end, majority.]


Composition: K.

Question 1: Is essential intellect a compound, inasmuch as it consists of active intellect and passive intellect?

Question 2: Is the soul a compound made of memory, intellect and will?

Solution: [Composition, simplicity, virtue.][Beginning, middle, end.]


Substance L.

Question 1: Is there any difference between the soul's being and its substance?

Question 2: Is there greater difference in the soul's substance, than among its accidents?

Solution: [Substance, being, accident.][Difference, beginning, middle.]


Accident M.

Question 1: Does quantity exist both substantially and virtually in the soul?

Question 2: Do the soul's accidents belong to its essential parts?

Solution: [Accident, virtue, substance.][Operation, difference, majority.]


Virtue N.

Question 1: Does the soul's virtue specify anything, and is it specified by anything?

Question 2: Does the soul's virtue produce its likeness as it moves?

Solution: [Virtue, substance, operation.][Beginning, middle, end.]


Operation O.

Question 1: What is the difference between essential intellect and intellect?

Question 2: Is intellectual operation greater in reality, than in the rational mind?

Solution: [Operation, essential intellect, interiority.][Beginning, end, majority.]


Interiority P.

Question 1: Does the soul's virtue first specify its likeness internally before specifying it externally?

Question 2: How does the soul exist within itself and outside of itself, through its being and its powers?

Solution: [Interiority, exteriority, operation.][Beginning, end, equality.]


Exteriority Q.

Question 1: Does the soul seek out its end within, or outside itself?

Question 2: Does the will seek its own likeness more than that of the intellect?

Solution: [Exteriority, essential intellect, essential will.][God, beginning,end.]


Motion R.

Question 1: Does the soul's motion first arise in its essence, or in its powers?

Question 2: Does motion proceed in the powers of the soul, or in their acts?

Solution: [Motion, interiority, exteriority.][Difference, beginning, end.]