Cabalistic, confirming the Christian religion · thesis 11>71

Thesis 11>71

Latin

Per id quod dicunt Cabalistae de aegypto, et attestata est experientia, habemus credere quod terra aegypti sit in analogia, et subordinatione proprietatis potentiae.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 27937

Apparatus (Farmer): 1487 subordinationis

English

From what the Cabalists say about Egypt, borne out by experience, we must hold that the land of Egypt stands in analogy, and in subjection, to the property of power.

'property of power' is Gevurah, the fifth sefirah; Farmer's note takes any text on Egypt to be readable, on this basis, as referring symbolically to God's power and, as in 28.40 and 10>10, to magic as well (farmer1998:28019).

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T10b; sense checked against farmer1998:27999; 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

• Chaim Wirszubski, Pico della Mirandola's Encounter with Jewish Mysticism (1989)

Mention records in the corpus: 1 (deterministic harvest; see Method).

Farmer's cross-references

• 10>10 Qui praecedentis conclusionis opus attentauerit, adhibeat opus cabalae secundum appropriata timori Isaac.
• 28.40 Quotienscunque ignoramus proprietatem a qua est influxus super petitione quam petimus, ad dominum naris recurrendum est.