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Ramon Llull

1232–1316 · Iberia (Majorca)Iberian
Ramon Llull

Description

Ramon Llull, sometimes anglicized as Raymond Lully, was a Catholic philosopher, theologian, poet, missionary, apologist and former knight, born in Palma de Mallorca. He invented a philosophical system known as the Art, conceived as a type of universal logic to prove the truth of Christian doctrine to interlocutors of all faiths and nationalities. The Art consists of a set of general principles and combinatorial operations. It is illustrated with diagrams.

Facts

Bornc. 1232, Palma de Mallorca, Kingdom of Majorca
Died1316 (aged 83–84)
Venerated inCatholic Church
Beatified11 September 1847 by Pope Pius IX
Feast30 June (Third Order of St. Francis)
EraMedieval philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolLullism
Main interestsChristian theologyphilosophylogicmathematics
Notable worksBlanquerna Tree of Science Ars Magna
Notable ideasLullist thought election theory computation theory

Life & work in brief

Summarised by section — one row per topic, for fast reading.

Work / contributionSignificance
LifeLlull was born in Palma into a wealthy family of Barcelona patricians who had come to the Kingdom of Majorca in 1229 with the conquering armies of James I of Aragon.
VenerationVenerated as a saintly figure, Llull was officially considered for canonization after his death.
WorksLlull's Art (in Latin Ars) is at the center of his thought and undergirds his entire corpus.
ReceptionAccording to Llull's autobiographical Vita, his Art was not received well at the University of Paris when he first presented it there in the 1280s.

Contribution to the celestial-alphabet tradition

Catalan mystic whose Ars Magna is a combinatory stellar-letter art of divine names — rotating wheels of letters that generate every permitted combination. A mechanical-letters-as-divine machinery that prefigures the combinatorial logic behind the stellar-reading engine of this project.

In the Luco Library
Ars Magna (Ars Generalis Ultima)
Ramon Llull

The planetary kameot — the apparatus they worked with

The 7 magic squares ↔ 7 doubles ↔ 7 planets (Sefer Yetzirah §4). Each square's order n gives a distinct sigil modulus; the constant is M = n(n²+1)/2. Saturn 3×3 = the Lo Shu (M=15), the basis of the Aiq-Bekar sigil method. Caveat (§6.3 / §15b.3): the sigil-over-kamea method is Renaissance (Agrippa, 1531), not medieval Jewish.

♄ Saturn3×3
8
1
6
3
5
7
4
9
2
double ב · M=15
♃ Jupiter4×4
16
2
3
13
5
11
10
8
9
7
6
12
4
14
15
1
double ג · M=34
♂ Mars5×5
17
24
1
8
15
23
5
7
14
16
4
6
13
20
22
10
12
19
21
3
11
18
25
2
9
double ד · M=65
☉ Sun6×6
35
1
6
26
19
24
3
32
7
21
23
25
31
9
2
22
27
20
8
28
33
17
10
15
30
5
34
12
14
16
4
36
29
13
18
11
double כ · M=111
♀ Venus7×7
30
39
48
1
10
19
28
38
47
7
9
18
27
29
46
6
8
17
26
35
37
5
14
16
25
34
36
45
13
15
24
33
42
44
4
21
23
32
41
43
3
12
22
31
40
49
2
11
20
double פ · M=175
☿ Mercury8×8
64
2
3
61
60
6
7
57
9
55
54
12
13
51
50
16
17
47
46
20
21
43
42
24
40
26
27
37
36
30
31
33
32
34
35
29
28
38
39
25
41
23
22
44
45
19
18
48
49
15
14
52
53
11
10
56
8
58
59
5
4
62
63
1
double ר · M=260
☽ Moon9×9
47
58
69
80
1
12
23
34
45
57
68
79
9
11
22
33
44
46
67
78
8
10
21
32
43
54
56
77
7
18
20
31
42
53
55
66
6
17
19
30
41
52
63
65
76
16
27
29
40
51
62
64
75
5
26
28
39
50
61
72
74
4
15
36
38
49
60
71
73
3
14
25
37
48
59
70
81
2
13
24
35
double ת · M=369

Lineage — influence tree

Where Ramon Llull sits in the magi lineage: who shaped this figure, and who this figure shaped in turn. Mage names link to their own ficha.