Iamblichus · thesis 23.4

Thesis 23.4

Latin

Elementa in octo coeli corporibus coelesti modo bis inueniuntur, quae quis inueniet si retrogrado ordine in illa bina numeratione processerit.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 15651

English

The elements are found twice over, in a celestial mode, in the eight heavenly bodies — as anyone will discover who proceeds in reverse order through that twofold enumeration.

Sense checked against farmer1998:15712; Farmer's note at farmer1998:15731 identifies 'illa numeratione' as a reference to Binah, the kabbalistic sefirah, not present in Iamblichus's own text.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T03b; sense checked against farmer1998:15712; awaiting human check

Attribution: reported according to Iamblichus (section 23 of the historical theses) · Pico's stance: reports

Discussed in

• Crofton Black, Pico's Heptaplus and Biblical Hermeneutics (2006)

Mention records in the corpus: 2 (deterministic harvest; see Method).

Farmer's cross-references

• 11>67 Per dictum Cabalistarum quod Caeli sunt ex igne et aqua, simul et ueritatem. Theologicam de ipsis sephirot nobis manifestat, et philosophica