Zoroaster and Chaldeans · thesis 8>8

Thesis 8>8

Latin

Magi in .xvii. amphorismo nihil aliud intelligunt per triplex indumentum ex lino, panno, et pellibus, quam triplex animae habitaculum, caeleste, spiritale, et terrenum.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 24851

English

In the seventeenth aphorism the magi understand by the threefold garment of linen, cloth, and skins nothing other than the threefold dwelling-place of the soul: celestial, spiritual, and terrestrial.

Sense checked against farmer1998:24908; no divergence.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T09b; sense checked against farmer1998:24908; awaiting human check

Attribution: Pico's own opinion (section 8>, on the understanding of Zoroaster and his Chaldean expositors) · Pico's stance: endorses

Farmer's cross-references

• 28.35 Nulla res spiritualis descendens inferius operatur sine indumento.