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 LULLY'S ERRORS. 585 sary, demonstrative, and evident ;" for they consist of efforts to define logically the mysteries of faith in a manner of which con- ceptions so subtle are incapable. Two or three, however, are manifestly heretical — that faith can err, but not reason, that it is wrong to slay heretics, and that the mass of mankind will be saved, even Jews and Saracens who are not in mortal sin. The Lullists had not been disposed to submit quietly. Eymerich de- scribes them as numerous and impudent, and guilty of the error of holding that Gregory erred grossly in condemning their mas- ter, whose doctrine had been divinely revealed and excelled all other doctrine, even that of St. Augustin; that it is not to be gained by study, but by the inspiration of the Holy Ghost, in thirty, forty, fifty, or sixty hours ; that modern theologians know nothing of true theology, for, on account of their sins, God has transferred all knowledge to the Lullists, who are to constitute the Church in the times of Antichrist."* There Avas in all this evidently the material which only needed nursing and provocation to develop into a new and formidable heresy under inquisitorial methods. Fortunately the king and a large part of the population were in sympathy with the Lullists ; the Great Schism broke out in 1378, and Don Pedro acknowledged neither Urban VI. nor Clement VII. The kingdom was thus vir- tually independent ; the Lullists boldly claimed that the bull of Gregory XL had been forged by Eymerich ; in 1385 an investiga- tion was held which resulted in driving him from Aragon, when he was succeeded by his enemy, Bernardo Ermengaudi, who was devoted to the king, and who hastened to make a formal declara- tion that in Lully's Philosophia Amoris there were not to be found the errors attributed to it by Eymerich. The banishment of the latter, however, did not long continue. He returned and re- sumed his office, which he exercised with unsparing rigor against the Lullists. This excited considerable commotion. In 1391 the city of Valencia sent to the pope Doctor Jayme de Xiva to com- Pegna says (p. 262) that in the MSS. of Eymerich's work the list of errors is fewer than in the printed text, and this is confirmed by Father Denifle (Archiv. fiir Litt- u. K. 1885, p. 143). Apparently the Dominicans of the fifteenth cen- tury, when they printed the Birectorium, interpolated errors to aid them in the controversy over Lully.
 * Eymeric. Direct, pp. 255-61.