Orphic Hymns · thesis 10>3

Thesis 10>3

Latin

Nomina deorum quos Orpheus canit non decipientium demonum, a quibus malum et non bonum prouenit. Sed naturalium uirtutum diuinarumque sunt nomina, a uero deo in utilitatem maxime hominis, si eis uti sciuerit, mundo distributarum.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 25580

English

When Orpheus sings the names of the gods, he is not naming deceiving demons, the source of evil rather than good; he is naming natural and divine powers that the true God has scattered through the world for man's great benefit, provided man knows how to put them to use.

Sense checked against farmer1998:25636; no divergence.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T09b; sense checked against farmer1998:25636; 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)

Mention records in the corpus: 2 (deterministic harvest; see Method).

Farmer's cross-references

• 5>4 Qui sciuerit rationem causae praesupponere rationem perfecti, intelliget iuxta Platonicam doctrinam quare dixerit Pherecides non prius Iouem
• 8>3 Quod dicunt interpretes super dictum secundum Zoroastris, de duplici aere, aqua, et terra, nihil aliud sibi uult nisi quodlibet elementum qu
• 9>1 Tota Magia quae in usu est apud modernos, et quam merito exterminat ecclesia, nullam habet firmitatem, nullum fundamentum, nullam ueritatem,
• 9>2 Magia naturalis licita est et non prohibita, et de huius scientiae uniuersalibus theoricis fundamentis pono infrascriptas conclusiones secun