Hebrew Cabalists · thesis 28.9

Thesis 28.9

Latin

Per sex dies geneseos habemus intelligere sex extremitates aedificii procedentes a Bresith, sicut procedunt cedri a Libano.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 17649

English

The six days of Genesis stand for the six extremities of the edifice that issue from Bereshit, the way cedars issue from Lebanon.

'Bresith' left transliterated as in Pico's Latin (Hebrew bereshit, 'in the beginning'); reworded to avoid near-identity with the published English; sense checked against farmer1998:17699.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T04b; sense checked against farmer1998:17699; 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

• Giulio Busi and Raphael Ebgi, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola: Mito, magia, Qabbalah (2014)
• Chaim Wirszubski, Pico della Mirandola's Encounter with Jewish Mysticism (1989)

Mention records in the corpus: 4 (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