Pico della Mirandola, Conclusiones (1486) SectionsThe thirteen condemnedScholarshipMethod

Porphyry · thesis 22.2

Thesis 22.2

Latin

Opifex mundi est supermundana anima.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 15442

English

The craftsman of the world is a soul above the world.

Sense checked against farmer1998:15499; 'opifex' kept as 'craftsman' rather than the more Latinate 'demiurge' since Pico's own word is the plain Latin term.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T03b; sense checked against farmer1998:15499; awaiting human check

Attribution: reported according to Porphyry (section 22 of the historical theses) · Pico's stance: reports

Discussed in

Mention records in the corpus: 1 (deterministic harvest; see Method).

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