Hebrew Cabalists · thesis 28.20

Thesis 28.20

Latin

Cum fiet lux speculi non lucentis sicut speculi lucentis, erit nox sicut dies, ut dicit Dauid.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 17951

English

When the light of the mirror that does not shine becomes like that of the mirror that shines, night will be like day, as David says.

Sense checked against farmer1998:18011.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T04b; sense checked against farmer1998:18011; 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

• Chaim Wirszubski, Pico della Mirandola's Encounter with Jewish Mysticism (1989)

Mention records in the corpus: 2 (deterministic harvest; see Method).

Farmer's cross-references

• 11>54 Quod dicunt Cabalistae, beatificandos nos in speculo lucente reposito sanctis in futuro saeculo, idem est praecise, sequendo fundamenta eoru