Porphyry · thesis 22.9

Thesis 22.9

Latin

Duplex est malorum demonum genus; alterum animae sunt et substantiales demones; alterum materiales potentiae et accidentales demones.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 15550

Evil demons fall into two classes: souls, which count as substantial demons, and material powers, which count as demons only accidentally.

Sense checked against farmer1998:15587; reworded for distance from Farmer's rendering.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T03b; sense checked against farmer1998:15587; awaiting human check

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

2.38 Grauia potius seipsis, quam a seipsis mouentur.
2.39 Phantasma est agens secundarium et instrumentale in productione speciei intelligibilis.
2.40 Difficultas intelligendi et ex parte ipsius intellectus et ex parte ipsius intelligibilis prouenire potest.
3>7 Sicut deus est simpliciter cognitio totius esse, ita intellectus est diffinitio
5>43 Sicut et uidetur et auditur homo ab homine per motionem sensus ad extra, ita et uidetur et auditur demon ab homine et a demone per motionem
5>44 Cur homo non possit non uideri si sit presens a recte disposito in potentia uisiua, demon autem tunc solum uideatur cum uult uideri, ex modo