Cabalistic, confirming the Christian religion · thesis 11>47

Thesis 11>47

Latin

Qui sciet proprietatem Aquilonis in cabala, sciet cur sathan Christo promisit regna mundi, si cadens eum adorasset.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 27343

English

Whoever knows what the north signifies in the Cabala will know why Satan offered Christ the kingdoms of the world, on condition that he fall down and worship him.

'north' is the standard symbol of the fifth sefirah, one of whose properties is power, and which was regularly associated with Satan and the origin of evil (farmer1998:27408).

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T10b; sense checked against farmer1998:27398; 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

• 10>10 Qui praecedentis conclusionis opus attentauerit, adhibeat opus cabalae secundum appropriata timori Isaac.