Orphic Hymns · thesis 10>4

Thesis 10>4

Latin

Sicut hymni Dauid operi Cabalae mirabiliter deseruiunt, ita hymni Orphei operi uerae, licitae, et naturalis magiae.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 25671

As the Psalms of David marvelously answer to a work of the Cabala, the hymns of Orpheus likewise answer to a work of true, licit, natural magic.

Sense checked against farmer1998:25722; no divergence. 'hymni Dauid' rendered 'the Psalms of David' per Farmer's identification (farmer1998:25697).

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T09b; sense checked against farmer1998:25722; awaiting human check

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

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: 4 (deterministic harvest; see Method).

10>25 Per quaternarium hymnorum primae formae mundanae attributorum, sui formabilis natura nobis designatur.
10>5 Tantus est numerus hymnorum Orphei, quantus est numerus cum quo deus triplex creauit saeculum, sub quaternarii pythagorici forma numeratus.
4>8 Christus non ueraciter et quantum ad realem presentiam descendit ad inferos ut ponit Thommas et communis uia, sed solum quo ad effectum.
7>7 Sicut medicina mouet spiritus principaliter ut regunt corpus, ita musica mouet spiritus ut seruiunt animae.
7>8 Medicina sanat animam per corpus, musica autem corpus per animam.