Hebrew Cabalists · thesis 28.21

Thesis 28.21

Latin

Qui sciet proprietatem quae est secretum tenebrarum, sciet cur mali demones plus in nocte quam die nocent.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 17955

Apparatus (Farmer): 1487 in die

1487 reads 'in die' (farmer1998:17976).

Knowing the property that is darkness's secret explains why evil demons do more harm by night than by day.

Sense checked against farmer1998:18015; reworded to avoid near-identity with the published English at that line.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T04b; sense checked against farmer1998:18015; 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

Giacomo Corazzol, From Sinai to Athens: Giovanni Pico della Mirandola's philological quest for the transmission of theological truth (2019)
Chaim Wirszubski, Pico della Mirandola's Encounter with Jewish Mysticism (1989)

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

11>2 Quicquid dicant alii cabaliste, ego partem speculatiuam cabalae quadruplicem diuiderem, conrespondenter quadruplici partition: philosophiae