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This item has not been rated yet. Francis of Assisi, whose disciple he was. Ramon has both dug deep within the mystical arena and has climbed high into the clouds in both addressing himself, humanity and how God relates to us and we unto Him. In this effort, only the best of his Mystical Poetry are assembled here.
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Llull was born into a wealthy family in Palma , the capital of the newly formed Kingdom of Majorca. Llull's parents had come from Catalonia as part of the effort to colonize the formerly Almohad ruled island. As the island had been conquered militarily, the Muslim population who had not been able to flee the conquering Christians had been enslaved, even though they still constituted a significant portion of the island's population.
Although he formed a family, he lived what he would later call the licentious and wasteful life of a troubadour. In Llull experienced a religious epiphany in the form of a series of visions. He narrates the event in his autobiography Vita coaetanea "Daily Life":.
Ramon, while still a young man and Seneschal to the King of Majorca, was very given to composing worthless songs and poems and to doing other licentious things. One night he was sitting beside his bed, about to compose and write in his vulgar tongue a song to a lady whom he loved with a foolish love; and as he began to write this song, he looked to his right and saw our Lord Jesus Christ on the Cross, as if suspended in mid-air. The vision came to Llull five times in all, leading him to leave his family, position, and belongings in order to pursue a life in the service of God.
Specifically, he realized three intentions: After a short pilgrimage he returned to Majorca, where he purchased a Muslim slave from whom he wanted to learn Arabic.
For the next nine years, until , he engaged in study and contemplation in relative solitude. He read extensively in both Latin and Arabic, learning both Christian and Muslim theological and philosophical thought. In , while staying at a hermitage on Puig de Randa , the form of the great book Llull was to write was finally given to him through divine revelation: Llull urged the study of Arabic and other then-insufficiently studied languages in Europe, [11] along with most of his works, to convert Muslims and schismatic Christians.
In , Llull embarked on his first mission to North Africa but was expelled from Tunis. In the early 14th century, Llull again visited North Africa. He finally achieved his goal of linguistic education at major universities in when the Council of Vienne ordered the creation of chairs of Hebrew , Arabic and Chaldean Aramaic at the universities of Bologna , Oxford , Paris, and Salamanca as well as at the Papal Court. Following the favourable attitude of some Franciscan theologians to this truth, Llull's position on this subject was of great importance because it paved the way for the doctrine of Duns Scotus , whom he met in , after which he was given the nickname Doctor Illuminatus , [16] even if it seems that he had not direct influence on him.
Llull is the first author to use the expression "Immaculate Conception" to designate the Virgin's exemption from original sin.
God and sin cannot be united in the one and same object Thus the Blessed Virgin Mary did not contract original sin; rather she was sanctified in the instant in which the seed from which she was formed was detached from her parents. There had to be a certain likeness between the Son's generation without sin and the generation of his Mother:. The Blessed Virgin Mary should have been conceived without sin, so that her conception and that of her Son might have a like nature.
The second creation, that is the Redemption, which began with Christ and Mary, had to happen under the sign of the most total purity, as was the case with the first creation:. Just as Adam and Eve remained in innocence until the original sin, so at the beginning of the new creation, when the Blessed Virgin Mary and her Son came into existence, it was fitting that the man and the Woman should be found in a state of innocence simpliciter , in an absolute way, without interruption, from the beginning until the end. Should the opposite have been the case, the new creation could not have begun.
It is clear, however, that it did have a beginning, and therefore the Blessed Virgin was conceived without original sin. The blessed fruit of our Lady's womb is Jesus Christ, who is true God and true man. He is God the Son, and he is man, the Son of our Lady. The man, her Son, is the blessed fruit because he is God the Son; for it is true that the goodness of the Son who is God and the goodness of the Son who is man are joined together and united in one person, who is Jesus Christ. And the goodness of the man, Mary's Son, is an instrument of the Son, who is God.
In , at the age of 82, Llull traveled again to North Africa where he was stoned by an angry crowd of Muslims in the city of Bougie. Bonner gives as a reason for Llull's journey to Tunis the information that its ruler was interested in Christianity—false information given to the Kings of Sicily and Aragon and relayed to Llull.
Llull was extremely prolific, writing a total of more than works in Catalan, Latin, and Arabic, and often translating from one language to the others. While almost all of his writings after the revelation on Mt. Randa connect to his Art in some way, he wrote on diverse subjects in a variety of styles and genres. The romantic novel Blanquerna is widely considered the first major work of literature written in Catalan, and possibly the first European novel. After spending some time teaching in France and being disappointed by the poor reception of his Art among students, Llull decided to revise it.
It is this revised version that he became known for. The Art operated by combining religious and philosophical attributes selected from a number of lists. It is believed that Llull's inspiration for the Ars magna came from observing Arab astrologers use a device called a zairja.
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The Art was intended as a debating tool for winning Muslims to the Christian faith through logic and reason. Through his detailed analytical efforts, Llull built an in-depth theosophic reference by which a reader could enter any argument or question necessarily reduced to Christian beliefs, which Llull identified as being held in common with other monotheistic religions.
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The reader then used visual aids and a book of charts to combine various ideas, generating statements which came together to form an answer.