Thesis 11>66
Latin
Ego animam nostram sic decem sephirot adapto, ut per unitatem suam sit cum prima, per intellectum cum secunda, per rationem cum tertia, per superiorem concupiscibilem cum quarta, per superiorem irascibilem cum quinta, per liberum arbitrium cum sexta, et per hoc totum ut ad superiora se conuertitur cum septima, ut ad inferiora cum octaua, et mixtum ex utroque, potius per indifferentiam uel alternariam adhesionem quam simultaneam continentiam, cum nona, et per potentiam qua inhabitat primum habitaculum cum decima.
English
I fit our soul to the ten sephirot in this way: through its unity it is with the first; through intellect, with the second; through reason, with the third; through the higher concupiscible, with the fourth; through the higher irascible, with the fifth; through free choice, with the sixth; through this whole, as it turns to higher things, with the seventh, and as it turns to lower things, with the eighth; and as the mixture of both, joined by indifference or alternating attachment rather than by simultaneous containment, with the ninth; and through the power by which it dwells in the first dwelling-place, with the tenth.
Sense checked against farmer1998:27882. 'concupiscibilem' and 'irascibilem' kept as the standard scholastic terms; 'liberum arbitrium' given as 'free choice'; 'sephirot' kept in Pico's spelling.
Discussed in
- Giulio Busi and Raphael Ebgi, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola: Mito, magia, Qabbalah (2014)
- Sophia Howlett, Re-evaluating Pico: Aristotelianism, Kabbalism, and Platonism in the Philosophy of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (2021)
- (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)