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Maria Saiz Raimundo
The present article analyses the primordial role played by the figure of Jesus Christ in Llullian contemplation, based on two works by Ramon Llull, the Llibre de contemplació (1273) and the Llibre d’amic e amat (1283). Jesus Christ is fundamental as an ontological reality but also as a signifying and epistemological reality: if creation represents divinity through the diffusion of the divine virtues it contains, Jesus Christ, as a human and divine creature, is the exemplary sign and, therefore, the best way for man to contemplate God. Based on various fragments of the two aforementioned works, the article shows the central role of Jesus Christ in Lullian contemplation and mysticism, and in the same line verifies that the verses of the Llibre d’amic e amat are better explained in the light of some passages of the Llibre de contemplació and Llull’s artistic mechanisms.
