Chaldean theologians · thesis 26.4

Thesis 26.4

Latin

Animae partiales non immediate ut dicunt aegyptii, sed mediantibus totalibus animis demoniacis, ab intellectuali splendore illuminantur.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 17139

English

Partial souls are illuminated by the intellectual splendor not immediately, as the Egyptians say, but through the mediation of total demonic souls.

'animis demoniacis' rendered 'demonic souls' in the ancient sense of daimon, not the later pejorative sense; sense checked against farmer1998:17198.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T04b; sense checked against farmer1998:17198; 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>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