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Lull's Book of
Propositions
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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.]
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