Lull's Book of Propositions

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

bullet4 Part 1

Faith B.

Question 1: Are the intellect and the will in greater concordance or contrariety in faith?

Question 2: Is faith a light composed of matter and form?

Solution: [Faith, charity, justice.][Beginning, concordance, contrariety.][Essential intellect, essential will, matter.]


Hope C.

Question 1: Does hope have any likeness to God?

Question 2: Is hope greater through charity, or through fortitude?

Solution: [Hope, charity, fortitude.][Majority, equality, affirmation.][Goodness, power, justice.]


Charity D.

Question 1: Is charity greater in willingness than in unwillingness?

Question 2: Does the difference of charity arise in the soul's essence, or in its powers?

Solution: [Charity, justice, prudence.][Beginning, concordance, majority.][Essential will, substance, accident.]


Justice E.

Question 1: Does the transmutation of justice into injury and vice-versa, occur in the soul's essence or in its powers?

Question 2: Does the justice whereby the essences of the soul produce being have an influence on the justice through which merit is acquired?

Solution: [Justice, charity, prudence.][Operation, beginning, end.][Essential will, virtue, movement.]


Prudence F.

Question 1: Is the light of prudence greater in itself than is the light of faith?

Question 2: Is freedom as great in prudence as in fortitude?

Solution: [Prudence, faith, fortitude.][God, majority, end.][C.D.H.]


Fortitude G.

Question 1: When the habit of fortitude is destroyed, is its essence destroyed as well?

Question 2: Is fortitude as great in the intellect as in the will?

Solution: [Fortitude, prudence, temperance.][Beginning, middle, end.][E.I.N.]


Temperance H.

Question 1: Does the temperance of essential memory, essential intellect and essential will produce the temperance of B.C.D. in E.?

Question 2: Is temperance a form or a figure?

Solution: [Temperance, justice, prudence.][Beginning, equality, affirmation.][Being, operation, virtue.]