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Ars generalis ultima - A “Prima figura (First figure) - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Writing helped to develop the Romance Catalan language and widely influenced Neoplatonic mysticism throughout mediaeval and 17th-century Europe.
        
        Modern term used to designate the period of Platonic philosophy beginning with the work of Plotinus and ending with the closing of the Platonic Academy by the Emperor Justinian in 529 C.E.
    - - Ramon was restless and clever, who spent the first 3 decades of his life as a typical courtier, serving to the King James I and from middle 1250s as a seneschal (the administrative head of the royal household) to the future King James II of Majorca
      - Developed characteristics of a troubadour (one who invented new poems, finding new verse for his elaborate love lyrics) in his chivalrous upbringing
    - - At 30 he experienced mystical visions of Christ on the Cross, after which he abandoned courtly life and devoted himself to missionary work
      - Travelled throughout North Africa and Asia Minor attempting to convert Muslims to Christianity.
      - 1272: He related to seeing the whole universe reflecting the divine attributes, he conceived of reducing all knowledge to first principles and determining their convergent point of unity
      - e had a religious epiphany, and decided to dedicate his life to God. He sold his possessions, reserving a small portion for his wife and children, and made a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela. Upon his return to Mallorca, he dedicated the rest of his life to learning, translating, teaching, writing, and travelling through Europe and North Africa.
    - - Inventor of an “art of finding truth” (ars inveniendi veritatis) that intended to support the Roman Catholic faith in missionary work but was also designed to unify all branches of knowledge.
      - One of the first people who tried to make logical deductions in a mechanical, rather than a mental way. His method was an early attempt to use logical means to produce knowledge. He demonstrated in an extremely elementary way that human thought can be described and even imitated by a device.
- - - - The figures will be used to visually represent the relationships between the different terms in a similar way to the previous formulation of the Ars. They are 54 principles in total, which constitute the basis of the whole system and whose relationships are established through the figures.