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Hebrew Cabalists · thesis 28.40

Thesis 28.40

Latin

Quotienscunque ignoramus proprietatem a qua est influxus super petitione quam petimus, ad dominum naris recurrendum est.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 18298

English

When we cannot identify the property from which the influence over a petition flows, we must have recourse to the lord of the nose.

Sense checked against farmer1998:18349; reworded to avoid near-identity with the published English at that line.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T04b; sense checked against farmer1998:18349; 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

Mention records in the corpus: 5 (deterministic harvest; see Method).

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