Hebrew Cabalists · thesis 28.11

Thesis 28.11

Latin

Dictum est ex Heden exire fluuium qui diuiditur in quatuor capita, ad significandum quod ex secunda numeratione procedit tertia, quae in quartam, quintam, sextam, et decimam diuiditur.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 17732

English

Scripture says a river leaves Eden and splits into four heads; this signifies that the third numeration proceeds from the second, and itself divides into the fourth, fifth, sixth, and tenth.

'numeratio' rendered 'numeration' throughout this edition, Pico's own word for what the Cabalists call the sefirah (cf. farmer1998:17811); reworded to avoid near-identity with the published English; sense checked against farmer1998:17791.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T04b; sense checked against farmer1998:17791; 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: 3 (deterministic harvest; see Method).

Farmer's cross-references

• 11>68 Qui sciuerit quid sit denarius in Arithmetica formali, et cognouerit naturam primi numeri spherici, sciet illud quod ego adhuc apud aliquem
• 11>69 Ex fundamento praecedentis conclusionis sciri pariter potest secretum quinquaginta portarum intelligentiae, et millesimae generationis, et r
• 1>8 In hoc articulo preciso a suis appendiciis: Vtrum angelus potuerit diuinam aequalitatem simpliciter appetere, non discordat Thomas et Scotus
• 24.2 A Saturniis legibus eximuntur dei qui contentiui et perfectiui sunt; a Iouiis legibus dei Saturnii; a fatalibus legibus omnis anima uiuens i
• 3>1 Sicut esse proprietatum praeceditur ab esse quiditatiuo, ita esse quiditatiuum praeceditur ab esse uniali.