Empedocles per litem et amicitiam in anima nihil aliud intelligit quam potentiam sursum ductiuam et deorsum ductiuam in ea, quas ego credo proportionari in scientia sephirot aeternitati et decori.
Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 21360
English
By strife and friendship in the soul, Empedocles points to nothing more than the upward-drawing and downward-drawing powers within it, which I take to correspond, in the science of the sefirot, to Eternity and Beauty.
'aeternitati et decori' name the seventh and eighth sefirot (Netzach and Hod) in Pico's kabbalistic correspondences.
Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T06b; sense checked against farmer1998:21409; awaiting human check
Attribution: Pico's own opinion (section 3>, paradoxical conclusions introducing new doctrines) · 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
11>66Ego animam nostram sic decem sephirot adapto, ut per unitatem suam sit cum prima, per intellectum cum secunda, per rationem cum tertia, per
4>1Qui dixerit accidens existere non posse nisi inexistat, Eucharistiae poterit sacramentum tenere etiam tenendo panis substantiam non remanere