Thesis 11>50
Latin
Cum dicunt cabalistae a septima et octaua petendos filios, ita dicas in merchiaua inferiori accipi, ut ab una petatur ut det, ab altera ne prohibeat. Et quae det et quae prohibeat potest intelligere ex praecedentibus conclusionibus qui fuerit intelligens in astrologia et cabala.
English
When the Cabalists say that children are to be sought from the seventh and the eighth, take this, within the lower merkavah, to mean: one is petitioned to grant them, the other only asked not to stand in the way. Which one grants and which withholds, anyone versed in both astrology and the Cabala can work out from the conclusions already given.
'merchiaua' transliterates merkavah, the Divine Chariot; Farmer's note holds the 'inferior chariot' names the realm of sensible natures rather than the seventh and eighth sefirot directly (farmer1998:27453).
Discussed in
- M. V. Dougherty (ed.), Pico della Mirandola: New Essays (2008)
- Chaim Wirszubski, Pico della Mirandola's Encounter with Jewish Mysticism (1989)
Farmer's cross-references
- 11>2 Quicquid dicant alii cabaliste, ego partem speculatiuam cabalae quadruplicem diuiderem, conrespondenter quadruplici partition: philosophiae
- 11>48 Quicquid dicant caeteri cabalistae, ego decem spheras sic decem numerationibus correspondere dico, ut ab aedificio incipiendo, Iupiter sit q
- 11>49 Qui sciuerit correspondentiam decem preceptorum ad prohibentia per coniunctionem ueritatis astrologicae cum ueritate theologica, uidebit ex
- 28.22 Licet fiat multiplex coordinatio curruum, tamen inquantum attinet ad phylacteriorum mysterium duo sunt currus ordinandi, ita ut ex secunda,
- 28.9 Per sex dies geneseos habemus intelligere sex extremitates aedificii procedentes a Bresith, sicut procedunt cedri a Libano.