Lull's Book of Propositions

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

bullet4 Part 2

Fire, Fire

Question 1: Is there any essential difference between simple and compound fire?

Question 2: Is simple fire a body?

Solution: [Fire, fire.][Air, air.][Difference, end, majority.][Being, simplicity, composition.]


Fire, Air

Question 1: Does fire give of its essence and virtue to air?

Question 2: Can air be diversified by simple fire, or by compound fire?

Solution: [Fire, air.][Air, Water.][Operation, concordance, beginning.][Igneity, aereity, motion.]


Fire, Water

Question 1: Can fire actively cool and be passively cooled?

Question 2: Can water be heated essentially, or virtually?

Solution: [Fire, water.][Air, earth.][Contrariety, beginning, end.][Igneity, form, matter.]


Fire, Earth

Question 1: Does fire actively dry per se or by accident, since it can be passively dried?

Question 2: Does the essential part of fire that can be passively dried convert into a formally drying power when fire dries air?

Solution: [Fire, earth.][Earth, water.][Difference, concordance, contrariety.][Form, matter, interior.]


Air, Air

Question 1: Does simple air essentially and virtually produce its likeness?

Question 2: Does air enter into mixture, digestion and composition with its essential or integral parts?

Solution: [Air, air.][Water, water.][Concordance, end, majority.][Aereity, being, composition.]


Air, Water

Question 1: Does air heat the matter and form of water?

Question 2: Since water can be heated, does it heat earth?

Solution: [Air, water.][Water, earth.][Beginning, middle, end.][Aereity, aqueity, being.]


Air, Earth

Question 1: Can air actively moisten and be passively moistened in earth?

Question 2: How do the parts of the elements enter into each other?

Solution: [Air, earth.][Earth, fire.][Difference, contrariety, majority.]


Water, Water

Question 1: Is water a power that actively restrains and is passively restrained to prevent fire from entering it?

Question 2: Is fire in water an extended power per se or by accident?

Solution: [Water, water.][Fire, fire.][Beginning, middle, end.][Simplicity, composition, virtue.]


Water, Earth

Question 1: Is water a filling power per se or by accident on account of air?

Question 2: Is earth a power that evacuates and that can be evacuated?

Solution: [Water, earth.][Earth, fire.][Difference, concordance, contrariety.][Aqueity, being, motion.]


Earth, Earth

Question 1: Could the weight of earth be sustained if earth per se could not evacuate or be evacuated?

Question 2: Is there the same quantity of earth as of the other elements?

Solution: [Earth, earth.][Water, water.][Operation, end, equality.][Terreity, being, virtue.]