Short Art

The seventh rule asks about time and has fifteen species, as is evident in the Ars Magna Great Art signified by the letters C, D, K. But because this art is short, we treat the rule itself in brief words, such as when it is asked through what mode the intellect is in time, since it is not point-like nor linear. To this it must be answered that the intellect is in time because it is commenced and new, and it consists in time successively by means of the movement of the body with which it is joined. The eighth rule asks about place and has fifteen species through the rules signified by C, D, K, as is evident in the Ars Magna, such as when it is asked where the intellect is. To this, it must be briefly answered that it is in the subject in which it exists, like a part in its whole; it is not enclosed, but diffused within it. For the intellect does not have a point-like, linear, or superficial essence. K contains two rules, namely the modal and the instrumental. The rule of modality has four species, such as when it is asked: How is the intellect? And how is a part a part in a part, and a part in a whole, and the whole in its parts, and how does it transmit its likeness outside itself? To this, it must be answered that it is present subjectively through that mode by which it is deduced through the aforementioned species, and it understands through that mode which it has in finding the middle existing between the subject and the predicate designated in the figures, multiplying the species