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
- (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).
Farmer's cross-references
- 11>48 Quicquid dicant caeteri cabalistae, ego decem spheras sic decem numerationibus correspondere dico, ut ab aedificio incipiendo, Iupiter sit q
- 28.6 Magnus aquilo fons est animarum omnium simpliciter, sicut alu dies quarundam et non omnium.