Orphic Hymns · thesis 10>16

Thesis 10>16

Latin

Ex praecedenti conclusione potest quis rectius exponere quam exponat Proclus quid sibi uelit illud dictum theologi inducentis opificem mundi noctem consulentem de opificio mundano.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 25895

English

The preceding conclusion supplies a truer explanation than Proclus gives of that saying of the theologian, where the world's craftsman is pictured consulting Night about the making of the world.

Sense checked against farmer1998:25954; no divergence. 'theologi' left unglossed as in the Latin (Orpheus, per the section heading); 'noctem' given as the standard English 'Night'.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T09b; sense checked against farmer1998:25954; 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

• 10>15 Idem est nox apud Orpheum_et ensoph in Cabala.
• 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