Hebrew Cabalists · thesis 28.1

Thesis 28.1

Latin

Sicut homo et sacerdos inferior sacrificat deo animas animalium irrationalium, ita Michael sacerdos superior sacrificat animas animalium rationalium.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 17532

English

As the lower priest, man offers up to God the souls of unreasoning animals; Michael, priest of the higher order, offers the souls of reasoning ones.

Sense checked against farmer1998:17586; reworded from a clause-for-clause 'just as ... so ...' rendering to avoid near-identity with the published English at that line.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T04b; sense checked against farmer1998:17586; awaiting human check

Attribution: reported according to the secret doctrine of the Hebrew Cabalist wise men (section 28 of the historical theses) · Pico's stance: reports

Discussed in

• (author to be confirmed from front matter), Erkenntnistheorie und christliche Kabbalah: Das Paradigma des Pico della Mirandola (n.d.)
• Chaim Wirszubski, Pico della Mirandola's Encounter with Jewish Mysticism (1989)

Mention records in the corpus: 3 (deterministic harvest; see Method).