Hebrew Cabalists · thesis 28.28

Thesis 28.28

Latin

Per uolatile quod creatum est die quinta, debemus intelligere angelos mundanos qui hominibus apparent, non eos qui non apparent nisi in spiritu.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 18078

English

The winged creatures made on the fifth day signify the worldly angels who show themselves to men, not the ones perceived only in spirit.

Sense checked against farmer1998:18130; reworded to avoid near-identity with the published English at that line.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T04b; sense checked against farmer1998:18130; 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: 1 (deterministic harvest; see Method).

Farmer's cross-references

• 28.8 Animae a tertio lumine ad quartam diem, et inde ad quintam descendunt, inde exeuntes corporis noctem subintrant.
• 6.7 Superior angelus illuminat inferioremnon quia ei uel obiectum presentet luminosum, uel quod in se est unitum illi particulariset et diuidat,