Giles of Rome · thesis 6.7

Thesis 6.7

Latin

Superior angelus illuminat inferiorem, non quia ei uel obiectum presentet luminosum, uel quod in se est unitum illi particulariter et diuidat, sed quia inferioris intellectum confortat et fortificat.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 12693; 1486 print folio <3v/4r>

Sheet's run-on 'inferioremnon' corrected to 'inferiorem non'; 'particulariset' corrected to 'particulariter'; 'conífortat' corrected to 'confortat'.

English

A higher angel illumines a lower one not by presenting it with a luminous object, nor by dividing out to it, particularized, what is unified in itself, but by comforting and strengthening the lower angel's intellect.

On illuminationism, see the note to 5.7 (Farmer's note, farmer1998:12770). Sense checked against farmer1998:12752.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T01b; sense checked against farmer1998:12752; awaiting human check

Attribution: reported according to Giles of Rome (section 6 of the historical theses) · Pico's stance: reports

Discussed in

• Amos Edelheit, A Philosopher at the Crossroads: Giovanni Pico della Mirandola's Encounter with Scholastic Philosophy (2022)

Mention records in the corpus: 4 (deterministic harvest; see Method).