Thesis 11>43
Latin
Per mysterium duarum litterarum uau et iod scitur quomodo ipse messias ut deus fuit principium suiipsius ut homo.
English
The mystery of the two letters vav and yod shows how the Messiah, as God, was the origin of himself considered as man.
Vav and yod are the first and last letters of the name Jesus in Pico's letter-play, as in 11>14 (farmer1998:27360).
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)
Farmer's cross-references
- 11>44 Scitur ex cabala per mysterium partis septentrionalis cur iudicabit deus saeculum per ignem.
- 11>45 Scitur in cabala apertissime cur dei filius cum aqua baptismi uenerit, et spiritus sanctus cum igne.
- 11>67 Per dictum Cabalistarum quod Caeli sunt ex igne et aqua, simul et ueritatem. Theologicam de ipsis sephirot nobis manifestat, et philosophica
- 28.33 Nullae sunt litterae in tota lege quae in formis, coniunctionibus, separationibus, tortuositate, directione, defectu, superabundantia, minor