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Lull's Book of
Propositions
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7 - Fig. Philosophy
Like the previous figures, the figure of Philosophy is addressed to the senses and imagination. The
intellect receives it through the senses and imagination in
accordance with the likenesses of corporeal species, wherefrom it rises to likenesses of spiritual species,
and with all this it forms its own inner universal concept
of the science of Philosophy. While the intellect grasps this universal concept it descends from the
Prime Cause that is the cause of all causes through Motion,
Intelligence, Heaven etc. After descending through successive particulars, the intellect ascends again
by the same steps back to the Prime Cause. While
investigating particulars the intellect discourses through the said degrees or steps with their respective
propositions, to the extent that its own light together with
the light of the senses and imagination can illuminate the particular investigation and judgment at
hand in following the regulated form whereby Philosophy is
configured in the intellect through the senses and imagination. And Philosophy is considered as an imprint
and foreshadowing of the science of Theology.
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