Orphic Hymns · thesis 10>15

Thesis 10>15

Latin

Idem est nox apud Orpheum, et ensoph in Cabala.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 25892

English

What Orpheus calls night and what the Cabala calls ensoph are one and the same.

Sense checked against farmer1998:25951. 'ensoph' left as the Latin transliteration (Farmer's note at farmer1998:25929 glosses it as Ein-Sof); the OCR gives 'Orpheum_et' at farmer1998:25892, read as a comma.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-27 by TRANSLATOR-FIX; sense checked against farmer1998:25951; 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)
• Sophia Howlett, Re-evaluating Pico: Aristotelianism, Kabbalism, and Platonism in the Philosophy of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (2021)
• (author to be confirmed from front matter), Erkenntnistheorie und christliche Kabbalah: Das Paradigma des Pico della Mirandola (n.d.)
• Chaim Wirszubski, Pico della Mirandola's Encounter with Jewish Mysticism (1989)

Mention records in the corpus: 6 (deterministic harvest; see Method).

Farmer's cross-references

• 10>16 Ex praecedenti conclusione potest quis rectius exponere quam exponat Proclus quid sibi uelit illud dictum theologi inducentis opificem mundi
• 11>35 Si deus in se ut infinitum, ut unum, et secundum se intelligatur, ut sic nihil intelligimus ab eo procedere, sed separationem a rebus, et om
• 11>36 Ex praecedenti conclusione intelligi potest cur dicatur apud cabalistas quod deus induit se decem uestimentis quando creauit saeculum.
• 11>4 Ensoph non est aliis numerationibus connumeranda, quia est illarum
• 5>9 Platonice loquendo de anima, dico animam uiuere cum Saturno uitam contemplatiuam, cum Ioue politicam et practicam, cum Marte irascibilem et