Iamblichus · thesis 23.6

Thesis 23.6

Latin

Cum excellenter ad intellectum assimilatur anima, fit in uehiculo motus perfecte circularis.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 15750

English

As the soul comes to resemble intellect at its highest pitch, the motion of its vehicle turns perfectly circular.

Sense checked against farmer1998:15796; reworded for distance from Farmer's rendering. Farmer's note at farmer1998:15816 reads this thesis as meant to clash with 20.11 from Plotinus.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T03b; sense checked against farmer1998:15796; awaiting human check

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

Discussed in

• Sophia Howlett, Re-evaluating Pico: Aristotelianism, Kabbalism, and Platonism in the Philosophy of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (2021)

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

Farmer's cross-references

• 20.11 Consumatae uirtutis est etiam primos motus amputare.
• 22.4 Omnis anima participans uulcanio intellectu seminatur in lunam.
• 5>45 Sensus naturae quem ponunt Alchindus, Bacon, Guilielmus Parisiensis, et quidam alii, maxime autem omnes magi, nihil est aliud quam sensus ue
• 5>7 Cum dicit Plato in Timao in medio mundi positam animam, quicquid dicant caeteri Platonici, ego per medium lunam intelligo.