Book of Causes · thesis 6>2

Thesis 6>2

Latin

Cum dicit Abucaten: Omnis anima nobilis tres habet operationes, diuinam, intellectualem, et animalem, ita est intelligendum, quod primam habeat per imaginem proportionalitatis, secundam per formalitatem participationis, tertiam per proprietatem essentialitatis.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 23437

Apparatus (Farmer): 1486 operationes.diuinam:

1486 print reads 'operationes.diuinam:' with a period and colon for commas (farmer1998:23469); wording unchanged.

English

Abucaten states that every noble soul has three operations—divine, intellectual, and animal; understand this to mean that it holds the first by a likeness of proportion, the second by the formal character of participation, and the third by the property of essentiality itself.

Sense checked against farmer1998:23491; no further crux.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T07b; sense checked against farmer1998:23491; awaiting human check

Attribution: Pico's own opinion (section 6>, on the Book of Causes) · Pico's stance: endorses

Discussed in

• (author to be confirmed from front matter), Erkenntnistheorie und christliche Kabbalah: Das Paradigma des Pico della Mirandola (n.d.)

Mention records in the corpus: 2 (deterministic harvest; see Method).

Farmer's cross-references

• 3>1 Sicut esse proprietatum praeceditur ab esse quiditatiuo, ita esse quiditatiuum praeceditur ab esse uniali.
• 3>25 Nisi destruamus naturam intellectualem, non possumus intelligere ideas numerari, nisi per intimationem ideae numeri per re/liquas, sicut est
• 6>3 Cum dixit Abucaten Omnem causam primariam plus influere, per plus intelligas eminentiam modi causandi et intimitatem eius quod in re produci