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Chaldean theologians · thesis 26.1

Thesis 26.1

Latin

Ordo separatorum principialis non est primus, ut putant aegyptii, sed super eum est ordo fontalis, unialiter superexaltatus.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 17125

The sheet's OCR gives 'aegyptü' for 'aegyptii'; corrected here.

English

It is not the first-ranked order of separated things that stands highest, as the Egyptians hold, but a fontal order above it, exalted above everything in its own unity.

Sense checked against farmer1998:17183; reworded from a more literal, clause-for-clause rendering to avoid near-identity with the published English at that line.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T04b; sense checked against farmer1998:17183; awaiting human check

Attribution: reported according to the opinion of the Chaldean theologians (section 26 of the historical theses) · Pico's stance: reports