1. De les difinicions d'amor
The Two Kinds of Definitions
This part is divided into simple and compound definitions, where simple definitions belong to each root of love and compound ones define love with each of its roots.
This part is divided into ii. parts: one is of simple definitions, the other is of compound definitions.1 Simple definitions are those that belong to each root of love; compound ones are those by which love is defined with each of its roots.
Why Definitions Are Given
Definitions are placed in the Tree of Love so that by knowing the beginnings and roots of love, one can discover its essence, nature, and secrets.
The reason we place definitions in this Tree of Love is so that with them we can know and discover the essence and nature of love, and its secrets; for whoever has knowledge of the beginnings and roots of a substance can have knowledge of that substance's essence and nature, since its beginnings reveal and show its secrets.
Read the original Catalan
Aquesta part es departida en . ij. parts: una' es de diffinicions simples, lautra es de diffinicions compostes. Simples diffinicions son aqueles qui son de cascuna rail damor; compostes son aqueles per que amor es diffinida ab cascuna de ses rails.
La raó per que posam en aquest Arbre d amor difinicions, es per so que ab eles puscam conèxer e atrobar la essència e natura damor, e los seus secrets; car qui ha conexensa dels comensamens e rails de la substància, pot aver conexensa de la essència e natura daquela, com sia so que los seus comensaments revelen e mostren los secrets daquela.
Notes
- 1 ↩Normalized source has una' (with a stray apostrophe); read as una, 'one'.
Arbre de filosofia d'amor (Tree of the Philosophy of Love) companion
A daily portion of stillness
Chosen Portion delivers one short contemplative reading and a guided moment of silence each day — the ascent, one step at a time.
Chosen Portion is the paced doorway into this collection: it portions the dense mystical treatises into one daily reading plus guided silence, exactly as the 14-day plan teaches.
- Daily bite-sized excerpts from the contemplative classics, never a wall of text
- A built-in timed stillness practice that grows from 2 minutes to 10
- Gentle progression through the tradition — the app remembers where you are on the ascent