Hebrew Cabalists · thesis 28.25

Thesis 28.25

Latin

Idem est bresith, id est in principio creauit, ac si dixisset in sapientia creauit.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 18066

English

To say Bereshit — 'in the beginning he created' — comes to the same thing as saying 'he created in wisdom'.

'bresith' left transliterated, Pico's spelling of Hebrew bereshit; reworded to avoid near-identity with the published English; sense checked against farmer1998:18117.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T04b; sense checked against farmer1998:18117; 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

• Sophia Howlett, Re-evaluating Pico: Aristotelianism, Kabbalism, and Platonism in the Philosophy of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (2021)
• 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

• 9>19 Ideo uoces et uerba in magico opere efficaciam habent, quia illud in quo primum magicam exercet natura, uox est dei.