LULLY, lull, LULL, or LUL, Raimon (Docros ILLUMINATUS), Spanish scholastic: b. Palma, Majorca, 1235; d. at sea in sight of Palma 1315. After having been attached to the court of James I of Aragon and leading a dissolute life, he retired to a cell on his estate, where he lived as an ascetic. In 1272 he joined the third order of Saint Francis. Encouraged by visions, he came to believe himself appointed to refute Mohammed and convert the Moslems to Christianity, and studied Latin, Arabic and logic in preparation for this work. Three times he went to Tunis with a view to con verting its inhabitants, was twice imprisoned and banished, and on his third attempt was stoned at Bugia, from the effects of which he died. His Demonstrativa Veritatis' was devised as an infallible and universal logical method to be used in making conversions, for the purpose of proving that the mysteries of faith were not contrary to reason. Lully be lieved that his method was destined to supplant the scholastic logic of the Middle Ages. He
endeavored without success to obtain aid from Pope Nicholas in establishing colleges for the study of Oriental languages. The Ars Lulliana consists mainly in categorizing ideas and com bining them mechanically, by which means Lully thought to exhaust their possible combinations. The method was taught and commented on in some schools of little influence in Spain, France and Italy, but it is hardly necessary to say that it never took root or produced any direct effects. Lully's works are very numerous and they were condemned as heretical by the Church. An incomplete edition is that begun by Galizinger (1721-42; Vols. VII and VIII never published). Consult Erdmann, 'Grund riss der Geschichte der Philosophic) (2d ed., 1869) ; Zweiner, S. M., 'The First Missionary to the Mohammedans) (New York 1902).