Plato · thesis 5>3

Thesis 5>3

Latin

Qui nouerit modum illuminationis superiorum super media intelliget idem significare et Platonicos per congregationem animarum in Monte Ida, et hebreos per animarum congregationem in Monte Synao in auditione legis.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 22219

English

Whoever has grasped the manner in which higher things shed light on middle things will understand that the Platonists mean the same thing by the gathering of souls on Mount Ida as the Hebrews mean by the gathering of souls on Mount Sinai to hear the Law.

Sense checked against farmer1998:22260; no further crux.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T07b; sense checked against farmer1998:22260; awaiting human check

Attribution: Pico's own opinion (section 5>, conclusions on the doctrine of Plato) · Pico's stance: endorses

Discussed in

• Giulio Busi and Raphael Ebgi, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola: Mito, magia, Qabbalah (2014)
• (author to be confirmed from front matter), Erkenntnistheorie und christliche Kabbalah: Das Paradigma des Pico della Mirandola (n.d.)

Mention records in the corpus: 4 (deterministic harvest; see Method).

Farmer's cross-references

• 5>4 Qui sciuerit rationem causae praesupponere rationem perfecti, intelliget iuxta Platonicam doctrinam quare dixerit Pherecides non prius Iouem
• 5>5 Empedocles per spheram intelligibilem a Venere contentam, nihil aliud intelligit quam mundum archetipum ab ordine intra se manentis primae p