Hebrew Cabalists · thesis 28.42

Thesis 28.42

Latin

Ideo Ioseph ossibus tantum sepultus est et non corpore, quia eius ossa erant uirtutes et militie arboris superioris uocati Sadich influentis ad terram superiorem.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 18305

English

Joseph's bones alone, not his body, were buried, because those bones were the powers and hosts of the higher tree named Tzaddik, whose influence flows into the higher earth.

'Sadich' transliterated, Pico's spelling of Hebrew tzaddik; reworded to avoid near-identity with the published English; sense checked against farmer1998:18356.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T04b; sense checked against farmer1998:18356; 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: 3 (deterministic harvest; see Method).

Farmer's cross-references

• 11>21 Qui coniunxerit dictum Cabalistarum dicentium quod illa numeratio quae dicitur iustus et redemptor_dicitur etiam ze, cum dicto Thalmudistaru
• 28.13 Qui nouerit in Cabala mysterium portarum intelligentiae, cognoscet mysterium magni lobelei.
• 28.43 Ideo Moysis sepulchrum nemo nouit, quia exaltatus est in Iobeleo superiore, et super Iobeleum misit radices suas.