Chaldean theologians · thesis 26.2

Thesis 26.2

Latin

Fatum non est necessitas primae potentiae seminalis, sed est intellectualiter participata habitudo animalium rationum, indeclinans a superioribus, ineuitabilis ab inferioribus.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 17129

English

Fate is not the necessity of the first seminal power, but is a habit of animate reasons intellectually participated, unbending as regards the things above it and inescapable as regards the things below it.

Sense checked against farmer1998:17188.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T04b; sense checked against farmer1998:17188; awaiting human check

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

Discussed in

• Giulio Busi and Raphael Ebgi, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola: Mito, magia, Qabbalah (2014)

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

Farmer's cross-references

• 11>35 Si deus in se ut infinitum, ut unum, et secundum se intelligatur, ut sic nihil intelligimus ab eo procedere, sed separationem a rebus, et om
• 2.17 Licet defendi possit quoquomodo creaturam posse creare, rationabilius tamen est credere potentiam creandi creaturae communicari non posse.
• 24.2 A Saturniis legibus eximuntur dei qui contentiui et perfectiui sunt; a Iouiis legibus dei Saturnii; a fatalibus legibus omnis anima uiuens i
• 2>41 Nulla pars coeli differt ab alia secundum lucidum et non lucidum, sed secundum magis et minus lucidum.
• 5>5 Empedocles per spheram intelligibilem a Venere contentam, nihil aliud intelligit quam mundum archetipum ab ordine intra se manentis primae p