Orphic Hymns · thesis 10>1

Thesis 10>1

Latin

Sicut secretam magiam a nobis primum ex Orphei hymnis elicitam fas non est in publicum explicare, ita nutu quodam, ut in infrascriptis fiet conclusionibus, eam per amphorismorum capita demonstrasse, utile erit ad excitandas contemplatiuorum mentes.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 25569

The sheet's OCR text joined 'elicitam' and 'fas' as 'elicitam_fas'; restored as two words.

English

The secret magic I have drawn for the first time out of the hymns of Orpheus cannot rightly be set out openly; hinting at it instead through the headings of aphorisms, in the conclusions that follow, will still serve to stir the minds of those given to contemplation.

Sense checked against farmer1998:25625; no divergence.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T09b; sense checked against farmer1998:25625; awaiting human check

Attribution: Pico's own opinion (section 10>, on the way of understanding the Orphic hymns) · Pico's stance: endorses

Discussed in

• Giulio Busi and Raphael Ebgi, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola: Mito, magia, Qabbalah (2014)
• 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

• 10>2 Nihil efficacius hymnis Orphei in naturali magia, si debita musica, animi intentio, et caeterae circumstantiae quas norunt sapientes, fuerin
• 10>3 Nomina deorum quos Orpheus canit non decipientium demonum, a quibus malum et non bonum prouenit. Sed naturalium uirtutum diuinarumque sunt n
• 10>7 Qui nescierit perfecte sensibiles proprietates per uiam secretae analogiae intellectualizare, nihil ex hymnis Orphei sanum intelliget.
• 11>57 Per praecedentem conclusionem potest intelligens in arithmetica formali intelligere quod operari per scemamphoras est proprium rationalis na
• 8>6 Dicta interpretum Chaldeorum super .xi. amphorismo, de duplici ebriatione, Bacchi et Sileni, perfecte intelligentur per dicta cabalistarum d