Chaldean theologians · thesis 26.3

Thesis 26.3

Latin

Substantiales rerum uisibilium qualitates non a uirtute separata particulari, ut credunt aegyptii, sed a primo receptaculo fontis luminum per animalem splendorem dependenter resultant.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 17134

English

The substantial qualities of visible things do not result from a particular separated power, as the Egyptians believe, but depend, by way of an animate splendor, on the first receptacle of the font of lights.

Sense checked against farmer1998:17193.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T04b; sense checked against farmer1998:17193; awaiting human check

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

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.
• 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