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Secrets of the Art
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9. most necessary
Nine: This
Art is most necessary
"First,
as the human intellect lives with opinions much more than
with science, due to the fact that every science has its
own principles divergent from those of every other
science, the intellect requires and craves one General
Science, endowed with its own general principles in which
the principles of the other sciences are implicitly
contained like particulars in their univeral. This is
because the other principles are subordinate to these,
and ordered and regulated by them, so the intellect may
repose in the other sciences with true understanding, and
be preserved and far removed from errors and false
opinions. (Doctor Illum. in Prol. Art. Gen. Ult.)
Secondly,
since this Art or Science adds many things that are not
considered in any single science per se, namely the
habitual, mutual combination of the principal terms in
each science, as shown in BC. BD. CD. CE. etc. where it
introduces into the combination other universal terms
that do not strictly belong to the domain of any one
science: it thereby further adds many things that simply
cannot be found in all the other sciences taken as a
whole, namely an artificial way to operate with E.I.N.R.,
and an artificial way of dealing with universals and
particulars by combining the principles of Figure T., and
a way to attain the Transcendent Points. (Doctor Illum.
in Comp. Art. Dem. Dist. 3. de quaest. fig. alph. f.
154.) and this secret is so profound that it cannot be
adequately clarified here. However you should note that
although this Art is necessary for all sciences, it is
nonetheless primarily meant for Theology, as Theology is
the end of all the other Sciences, given that it
determines the ultimate end of everything. (Doctor Illum.
in Introd. Art. Dem. cap. 1. n. 4.)
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