Table of Sacred and Profane Pantosophy Redacted into the Art of Raymund Lull

investigate all things, and answer learnedly and eloquently to any questions of any argument whatsoever.

2. The principles upon which it itself rests are so constituted that there is nothing ever rationally said or written, or that is said or written to this day, that does not appear to be compounded from them and cannot be reduced to them. Hence, it is so far from the case that it hinders the Peripatetic philosophy received until now (which is the delirium of certain malevolent people) that it rather consolidates it on all sides, reconciling the Lyceum with the Academy and the Stoa, and recalling all things to the sacred fountains from which all wisdom flowed in the first centuries past to the gentile Phoenicians, Egyptians, Greeks, Arabs, Romans, etc.

3. But the Lullian Art also has this distinguished and unique feature, that it can be duly taught and learned in any language, not merely with the aid of the Greek or Latin tongue; which the Peripatetics have indeed claimed for themselves as interpreters until now, to such an extent that it was almost impossible for foreigners to advance to the temple of Wisdom, much less reach it, without their peace and aid. For which reason it behooves us to congratulate Germany above all: