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Lull's Book of
Propositions
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Part 1
Faith B.
1. Faith is a virtue in which the will supposes both possibility and impossibility in order to raise
the level of the intellect.
2. Faith is the light of the grace of essential will, through which the intellect receives its light
from essential intelligence in order to see its own light per se.
3. As essential intelligence influences the intellect, and the intellect transmits its likeness to prudence
by way of acquisition, essential will necessarily transmits
the influence of its likeness to faith by infusion.
Hope C.
1. Hope is a likeness of essential memory, through which Charity and Justice show their figures in the
virtue of Hope.
2. As there are both Justice and Mercy in God, Hope is a habit made of Charity and Fear.
3. As God is active in goodness, greatness, eternity etc., Hope can be exalted and magnified.
Charity D.
1. Charity never uses Prudence to repulse the influence of essential memory and essential intelligence.
2. As God is equally to be loved and understood, He created equality between Wisdom and Charity.
3. Essential will grows so greatly in the light of essential intellect, that Charity can always be increased
in this way.
Justice E.
1. Essential memory, essential intellect and essential will produce S. through the virtue of Justice,
so that S. may produce Justice through B.C.D.
2. Through Justice, S. transmits to B.C.D. the influence of equally justified virtue, but B.C.D. do
not always equate in E.
3. Justice always contradicts injury more strongly with great wisdom than with little wisdom.
Prudence F.
1. In the virtue of Prudence, the intellect obtains its likeness through deliberation, the will through
choice and memory through conservation.
2. Wherever Prudence is absent, the purpose of B.C.D.F.G.H. is absent.
3. Hope and Charity never lack Prudence.
Fortitude G.
1. Fortitude displays the power that creates essential memory, essential intellect and essential will.
2. The soul's fortitude cannot be compelled to do anything against its will.
3. The destruction of Fortitude is possible because of the freedom of B.C.D.E.F.G.H.M.
Temperance H.
1. Temperance of the senses produces a likeness of that spiritual Temperance through which E. is constituted
by B.C.D.
2. Temperance never acts without Hope, Charity, Justice, Prudence and Fortitude.
3. Constant perseverance in Temperance is a likeness of the frequentation of the virtue of essential
memory, essential intellect and essential will.
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