Short Art

in itself 36 chambers, as is evident in it; each chamber has many and diverse things signified by the two letters contained in it, just as the chamber BC has many and diverse things signified by BC; similarly, the chamber BD has many and diverse things signified by BD, etc., and this is already clear in the aforementioned alphabet. In each chamber there are two letters contained in it; they signify the subject and the predicate, in which the artist inquires for a middle term with which the subject and predicate are joined, just as goodness and magnitude, which are joined through concordance, and suchlike, with which middle term the artist intends to conclude and declare the proposition. In the figure itself, it is signified that every principle is attributed to every principle, just as B has C, D, E attributed to it, and B, D is attributed to E. As is evident in the figure. The reason for this is so that the intellect, with all principles, may know every principle, so that it may bring many reasons to the same conclusion; and of this we wish to give an example concerning goodness, of which we make the subject, and of the other principles the predicate. Goodness is great; goodness is enduring; goodness is powerful; goodness is knowable; goodness is lovable; goodness is virtuous; goodness is true; goodness is glorious; goodness is differing; goodness is concordant; goodness is contrary; goodness is originating; goodness is mediating; goodness is finishing; goodness is majorifying; goodness is co-equating