Cabalistic, confirming the Christian religion · thesis 11>62

Thesis 11>62

Latin

Qui profunde considerauerit nouenarium beatitudinum numerum de quo apud Matheum in euangelio, uidebit illas mirabiliter conuenire nouenario nouem numerationum quae sunt infra primam, quae est inaccessibilis diuinitatis abyssus.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 27741

English

Whoever weighs closely the nine beatitudes set out in Matthew's Gospel will see them correspond, remarkably, to the group of nine numerations that lie beneath the first — the first being the unreachable abyss of the godhead.

'numeration' renders 'numeratio', Pico's own word for a sefirah. Matt. 5:1-12 gives the nine beatitudes; Farmer's note takes the 'inaccessible abyss of divinity' to be Keter ('crown'), the first sefirah, rather than Ein-Sof, God himself above the whole system (farmer1998:27768).

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T10b; sense checked against farmer1998:27787; 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

• Giulio Busi and Raphael Ebgi, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola: Mito, magia, Qabbalah (2014)
• Chaim Wirszubski, Pico della Mirandola's Encounter with Jewish Mysticism (1989)

Mention records in the corpus: 3 (deterministic harvest; see Method).

Farmer's cross-references

• 11>4 Ensoph non est aliis numerationibus connumeranda, quia est illarum
• 11>63 Sicut Aristoteles diuiniorem philosophiam, quam philosophi antiqui sub fabulis et apologis uelarunt, ipse sub philosophicae speculationis fa