[Buddha-l] Enneagram and Buddhism

[Vicente Gonzalez]

Curt wrote:

CS> Converting the infidels may or may not have been Llull's true aim. In 
CS> fact, his "system" was "Christian" in name only and very few if any 
CS> Muslims or Jews were ever converted because of it.

yes... of course. The obsession of Llull with those artifacts was
to drive the reason and avoiding the forced conversions. He used the
anecdote to support the invention of his artifacts and discussion.

CS> However it did  provide a good cover story for traveling all over
CS> the place and meeting  with and engaging in philosophical
CS> discussions with people in the Muslim  world. This was especially
CS> important to someone like Llull whose was  drawn to Platonic
CS> philosophy, which the Muslims had done a much better  job of
CS> preserving than the Catholics had. 

yes. His main influence was Al-farabi, the neoplatonic Muslim,  as I
mentioned to you in a private email. That open style of both was
confronted with the fundamentalisms in both Christian and Muslim
sides. Llull was attacked in his home by Catholics, and the Al-farabi
work was attacked by Averroes, an Aristotelic philosopher who rescued
Muslim doctrine of the fundamentalism of Al-Gazzali but also attacking
the Alfarabi mystics speculations. In fact, Llull passed into the
History like an interreligious precedent. 


best regards,