Pico della Mirandola, Conclusiones (1486) SectionsThe thirteen condemnedScholarshipMethod

Cabalistic, confirming the Christian religion · thesis 11>12

Thesis 11>12

Latin

Non potest operari per puram Cabalam, qui non est rationaliter intellectualis.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 26604

English

No one who is not rationally intellectual can act by way of the pure Cabala.

'rationaliter intellectualis' is kept literal rather than smoothed to 'rational and intellectual'; Farmer's note ties the pure Cabala to the intellectual part of the soul, as against natural magic in the rational part (farmer1998:26679).

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T10b; sense checked against farmer1998:26663; awaiting human check

Attribution: Pico's own opinion (section 11>, Cabalistic conclusions confirming the Christian religion from the Hebrew wise men's principles) · Pico's stance: endorses

Discussed in

Mention records in the corpus: 3 (deterministic harvest; see Method).

Farmer's cross-references