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Hebrew Cabalists · thesis 28.8

Thesis 28.8

Latin

Animae a tertio lumine ad quartam diem, et inde ad quintam descendunt, inde exeuntes corporis noctem subintrant.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 17645

Apparatus (Farmer): 1486 luminae | 1487 lumine

1486 reads 'luminae' for 'lumine' (1487 corrects to 'lumine'; farmer1998:17655).

English

From the third light souls descend to the fourth day and then to the fifth, and on leaving that fifth they pass into the body's night.

Sense checked against farmer1998:17695; reworded to avoid near-identity with the published English at that line.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T04b; sense checked against farmer1998:17695; 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

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

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