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

which, under the guidance of this art, if it wishes, will learn to philosophize, once ready to contend with Greece and Italy for the primacy, unless it prefers to yield to sloth or the malignity of detractors, rather than to believe the truth as it foretells.

4. But, you say, this Art will be joined with great difficulty, and will demand a student who is already most skilled in all disciplines. I, however, think thus: that any youth of skillful talent, or a boy who anticipates his youthful years with the sagacity of his character, is a suitable student of it, however lacking he may come in Latinity and the disciplines. For the art itself supplies whatever is necessary to be known, and instills it step by step, so that, having found a faithful Teacher, you do not need other aids. But if you have previously labored in the liberal arts and sciences, you will doubtlessly reach the goal more quickly. All the difference lies in the fact that here it is necessary to hunt for the general in the specific, and there for the specific in the general.

5. I omit for the present the remaining things that can be discovered under the guidance of this Art. One thing I rightly marvel at: while Pantosophist Kircher