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man, rather a peaceful and general philanthropy, and 

 my only title the profession of philosophy, merely 

 because I was a pupil in the temple of the Muses, you 

 thought me worthy of the kindliest welcome, enrolled 

 me in the album of your academy, and gave me a 

 place in a body of men so noble and learned that I 

 could not fail to see in you neither a private school nor 

 an exclusive conventicle, but as becomes the Athens of 

 Germany, a true university." In this introduction a 

 large number of the professors are invoked by name, 

 among them the enlightened Griin, a professor of 

 philosophy, who taught that theology cannot be 

 detached from philosophy that they are necessary 

 complements one of the other. 



works In Wittenberg was published (1587), the De 



' Lampade Combinatoria Lulliana, the second of the 

 commentaries on Lully's art, and representing perhaps 

 the clavis magna of the De Umbris and other Parisian 

 publications. It was dedicated to the senatus of the 

 University of Wittenberg. A reprint, however, appeared 

 in Prague in the following year with a new frontispiece, 

 a dedication to William of St. Clement, and the addition 

 of a small treatise. 1 The chief purpose of the work 

 was to furnish the reader with means for c< the discovery 

 of an indefinite number of propositions and middle 

 terms for speaking and arguing. It is also the sole 

 key to the intelligence of all Lullian works whatsoever," 

 Bruno writes with his sublime confidence, " and no less 

 to a great number of the mysteries of the Pythagoreans 

 and Cabalists." As in the earlier work, so in this also, 

 the root ideas are that thought is a complex of elements, 

 which are to it as the letters of the alphabet are to a 



1 De Specierum Scrutinio et Lampade Combinatoria Raimuxdi Lulli, " the omniscient 

 and almost divine hermit doctor." Prague, 1588. 



