The Art of Contemplation of Ramon Llull through the Metaphor of the Lover and the Beloved

Abstract

The metaphor of the lover and the beloved is a literary device extensively cultivated in Ramon Llull’s oeuvre, a fundamental aspect to understand his spiritual project. Moreover, it works as an example to convey to the reader an art of contemplation that brings about inner transformation, based on the Lullian Art. This article describes the basis and mechanism of the art of contemplation through an analysis of the corpus about the lover and the beloved in Llull’s oeuvre.