Chapter 10
Camera CE

88.

  • Power is great. What is great power? We answer that it is the being in which greatness and power convert. And this is signified by the first species of rule C. And by the second species of C and the first of E, power is great because it has its own formal and coessential concretes, namely the magnifier and empowerer, the magnified and empowered with their magnifying and empowering. And this is signified by the said species of rules C and E. By the third species of C it is in other essences, so they can exist and act because of it. By the fourth species it has action and passion as it is active and passive in its appropriated subjects. Further, by the second species of rule E, great power exists to make all other things possible by magnifying them; this is proved by the definitions of greatness and power.

  • 89.

  • Greatness is concordant. What is great concordance? The answer is found in what was said in camera CD, chapter 9 #86.
  • Greatness is a great principle. What is a great principle? We say it is a being in which greatness and principle convert without any matter or accident, and the second species of rule C, the first of E and the definitions of the principles signify this. The magnifier and initiator exists so that there be a magnified initiated entity and so that magnifying and initiating proceed from both, with the definitions of greatness, power, concordance and beginning.
  • Why do great power, great concordance and great principle exist? The answer is that they exist because of the things signified by the species of rules C and E and by the definitions of the principles.



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    Chapter 11
    Camera CF

    90.

  • There is great intellect. What is great intellect? The answer is that great intellect is a being in which greatness and intellect convert, as signified by the first species of rule C. And there is intellectual greatness because the intellect has its own coessential and relative concretes, namely the knower, the knowable and knowing with which it has discrete nature whereas its essence is continuous and indivisible, as shown by the second species of rule C. Further, the intellect's greatness enables its essence to contain all intelligible things - as signified by the third species of rule C - so the intellect can be great in  practice. Then by the fourth species, the intellect exists in order to relate generally to all things: thus the intellect understands various things in order to have an intelligible part in which it can understand them and to have an act of understanding with which it understands them and puts them into practice in particular ways, moving step by step on the ladder of sensual an sensual etc. and the ladder of the medium of conjunction etc.
  • What is concordant greatness? The answer is found above in camera CD Chapter 9.
  • 91.
  • Greatness mediates. What is a great medium? We answer by the ladder of medium, the ladder of concordance and the first and second species of rules C and F. Now there cannot be any great medium at all without these, and without such a medium, greatness would be empty and idle; and likewise without such greatness, no medium could be great. And the truth of what we say is proved by the definitions of the principles and the species of the rules as well as by the said ladders in which the intellect ascends and descends step by step to acquire sciences and scientific habits.
  • 92.
  •  We ask: "How much greatness does the intellect have? How much concordance? How much mediation?" We say that it has as much of these as is signified by the things said about its greatness, concordance and medium in the paragraphs dealing with the present camera CF. We leave this as an exercise for those who are good at speculation and know this art, and we do so for the sake of brevity.



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    Chapter 12
    Camera CG
     

    93.

  • What is great will? By the first species of rule C, we reply that it is a being in which all great things are lovable. And by the second species of rule C and the first of G, it formally has a great lover, beloved and loving; and the lover is formally in the beloved through loving. And by the fourth species it has all lovable things in itself. And by the second species of G, it causes appropriated lovable acts as general qualities. And this can be abundantly proved by the definitions of greatness, will, concordance and end as well as the ladders of C and G in the second figure.
  • What is great concordance? The answer is found in what was said about it above in Chapter 9.

  • 94.

  • What is a great end? We reply with the first species of rule C that a great end is a being  that has its own correlatives in the essence of greatness, namely the consummator, the consummated and consummation; and in its own intrinsic consummated correlative all other, or appropriated cosummated things come to consummation. And this is signified by the first and second species of rule C as well as by the definitions of the principles in camera CG. What kind of will is great? What kind of concordance? And what kind of end? The answer to these questions is found in what was said above in the present chapter, where the solutions are implicit and can be artificially adduced to the issue at hand.


  • Chapter 13
    Camera CH

    95.

  • Greatness is virtuous. We ask: "What is great virtue?" and we answer that it is a being greatly distinct from corruption and sin, this is signified by the first species of rule C. Next, by the second species, great virtue is one that has its own innate virtuous magnifier, magnified and magnifying which are naturally and substantially related and exist outside of time and within time. Likewise by the third species, great virtue is one that causes great virtues to exist within time. Further, by the fourth species, great virtue is one that has rulership over all other virtues not of its own genus and nature. What is great concordance? The answer is the same as given above in Chapter 9.

  • 96.

  • Greatness is major. What is major greatness? We answer that it is the substance which is furthest removed from smallness, minority and accidents. Next, by the second species of rule C, it is a being that has in itself the magnifier, magnified and magnifying. Further, by the third species, it is the major ruler in other essences and by the fourth species, it obtains whatever it wants from these essences. And camera CH holds sufficient proof of these things.

  • 97.

  • When is greatness virtuous? and when are great concordance and majority virtuous? We answer that they are virtuous before time and motion existed, and this is proved by all the species of rule H.



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    Chapter 14
    Camera CI

    98.

  • Greatness is true. What is true greatness? We reply that it is the substance furthest removed from falsity and accident, as it has, by the second species of rule C, the true magnifier, magnified and magnifying that stand infinitely unopposed within and without space. Next, by the third species it is the cause that causes true - not false - magnitudes to exist in space, both substantially and accidentally. Further, by the fourth species, it has great and true action in all new subjects, and this is proven by the definitions of the principles of camera CI and by the rules.

  • 99.

  • What is great concordance? The answer is found in Chapter 9 above.
  • Now let us ask: "What is major concordance?"  Answer: it is a major substance with innate major and substantial relations removed from all accidents.

  • 100.

  • There is great equality. What is great equality? We answer that it is a being whose innate correlatives are entirely segregated from majority and minority. Then, by the third species, it is the cause of all related majorities and minorities, while it exists within space without being contained by space, and infinitely outside of space. Further, by the fourth species, it has whatever it wants to have in space, and this is proved by rule C and the definitions of the principles in camera CI.

  • 101.

  • Where are great truth, great concordance and great equality?   We answer that they are in themselves by the first species of rule C, and by the third, in the other subjects caused by them. And so with the second and fourth species, each in its way. And the same can be gathered from each species of rule I in various ways.



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    Chapter 15
    Camera CK

    102.

  • What is great glory? We answer that it is the substance most distant from smallness and punishment. And by the second species of rule C, it is a being that has its own innate and glorious magnifier, magnified and magnifying. By the third species it is a cause in all peregrine substances and accidents. And by the fourth species it has great glory in the greatly glorified, and conversely, and the same with magnifying and glorifying. And this is confirmed by rules C and K and the definitions of the principles in camera CK.

  • 103.

  • What is great concordance? The answer is found in Chapter 9 above. And if we ask: "What is the great concordance of glory?" The answer is found in all four species of rule C, because it is what these species signify. And the definitions of greatness, concordance and glory attest to this.

  • 104.

  • What is great minority? We reply that it is accident, as it is closer to non being than substance. And it is a being with its own coessential correlatives, by the second species of rule C. However, accidentally, there are some substantial minorities as shown in the ladder of sensual and sensual etc. and the ladder of substance and substance etc. This is proved by rules C and K as well as by the definitions of minority.

  • 105.

  • How does great glory exist? And great concordance? We answer by the third species of rule C that they exist as their relations exist within one another and as they magnify and glorify in concordance entirely segregated from minority.

  • 106.

  • What does great glory exist with? And great concordance? We answer that they exist with the magnifier, glorifier and concorder, the magnified, glorified and concorded and magnifying, glorifying and concording, and with the conversion of identity in essence, substance and nature, while the three correlatives remain distinct, as by the second species of rule C, each one is per se numerically distinct from the others. There is also great glory and great concordance in the ladder of sensual and sensual etc. and in the ladder of substance and substance etc. but this glory is not as great as the former, which is the prime cause while the latter is a second cause.



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    Chapter 16
    Camera DE

    107.

  • Duration is powerful. By the first species of rule D, where does powerful duration first arise? We say it originates in itself, in its own innate primordial essence and power, and this power enables it to exist and act.
  • By the second species of rule D we ask: what things does powerful duration consist of?  And we reply that it consists of duration's correlatives with the correlatives of power.
  • By the third species of the same rule we ask: To what does powerful duration belong? And the answer is that accidental powerful duration, as the habit that enables substantial powers and durations to last, belongs to substantial duration and power.

  • 108.

  • What does contrariety's duration consist of? We answer that it consists of primordial qualities and of virtues and vices that last with the staying power they have.
  • What does the duration of principles consist of? We say it consists of primordial durations and the thorough mixture of principles where duration communicates its essence to principle while principle communicates its essence to duration.

  • 109.

  • Why does power last? We reply that it lasts because it consists of the endurer and empowerer, the durable empowered with their enduring and empowering in the compound subjects where they exist.
  • Why does powerful opposition last? We reply that it lasts because it is habituated with contrary relations, duration and power in the compound subjects in which they exist.
  • Why do the principles of power last? We reply that they last because their correlatives are habituated with the genus of relation and power.


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    Chapter 17
    Camera DF

    110.

  • What does knowable duration consist of? We answer that it consists of the endurer and knower, the endurable knowable with their enduring and knowing.
  • What does the duration of contrariety consist of? We say it consists of enduring, joining and measuring caused by  continuous duration of contrary qualities.
  • 111.
  • What is the quantity of duration? We reply that duration has the same quantity as its essence and concretes have.
  • How long does contrariety last?  We say it lasts as long as a there is a quantity of contrarieties or moralities in a subject.
  • How long does the middle last? We say it lasts as long as enduring and mediating exist between the endurer and mediator and the endured and mediated.


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    Chapter 18
    Camera DG

    112.

  • What does lovable duration consist of? We reply that it consists of peregrine species drawn and printed on the innate durable and lovable.
  • What does the duration of contrariety consist of? The answer is found in the preceding Chapter, #110.
  • Of what does the end's duration consist? We reply that it consists of the finisher finishing and enduring to an extent beyond which appetite cannot reach.

  • 113.

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