Cabalistic, confirming the Christian religion · thesis 11>31

Thesis 11>31

Latin

Cum audis Cabalistas ponere in Thesua informitatem, intellige informitatem per antecedentiam ad formalitatem, non per priuationem.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 27021

Apparatus (Farmer): 1487 per accidentiam ad formalitatem

'Thesua' is kept as printed; Farmer judges Pico's transliteration here possibly corrupt for Teshuvah, an alternate name of the third sefirah (farmer1998:27093).

English

When you hear the Cabalists place formlessness in Thesua, understand that formlessness as coming before form, not as a privation of it.

'per antecedentiam ad formalitatem' is kept as 'coming before form' to preserve the contrast Pico draws with mere privation; Farmer connects the sefirah in question with the intellectual nature, the source of worldly forms (farmer1998:27093).

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T10b; sense checked against farmer1998:27079; 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

• (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: 4 (deterministic harvest; see Method).

Farmer's cross-references

• 11>29 Quod dicitur a Cabalistis, quod linea uiridis gyrat uniuersum, conuenientissime dicitur ad conclusionem quam ultimam diximus ex mente Porphy
• 11>32 Si duplex Aleph quod est in textu: Non auferetur sceptrum, etc., coniunxerimus ad duplex Aleph quod est in textu: Deus possedit me ab initio
• 28.23 Supra proprietatem penitentiae non est utendum uerbo dixit.
• 6>7 Ex praecedenti conclusione potest haberi quomodo intelligendum est dictum Abucaten, quod omnis intelligentia est plena formis.