Cabalistic, confirming the Christian religion · thesis 11>53

Thesis 11>53

Latin

Cum fieri lucem nihil sit aliud quam participare lucem, conueniens est ualde illa cabalistarum expositio ut in ly fiat lux, per lucem, speculum lucens intelligamus, et in ly facta est lux, speculum non lucens.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 27524

Apparatus (Farmer): 1486 ly fiat lux.per lucem

'ly' is the scholastic marker for a term under discussion ('the term ...'), not an independent word; kept as printed.

English

Given that for light to come into being is nothing other than to share in light, the Cabalists' reading fits very well: in the phrase Let there be light, 'light' should be taken as the shining mirror, and in Light was made, as the mirror that does not shine.

'shining mirror' and 'mirror not shining' are symbols of the sixth and tenth sefirot respectively, tied by Farmer's note to Genesis 1:3 and thesis 28.20 (farmer1998:27555).

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T10b; sense checked against farmer1998:27579; 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: 5 (deterministic harvest; see Method).

Farmer's cross-references

• 28.20 Cum fiet lux speculi non lucentis sicut speculi lucentis, erit nox sicut dies, ut dicit Dauid.