Zoroaster and Chaldeans · thesis 8>14

Thesis 8>14

Latin

Per dictum illud Zoroastris, adhuc tres dies sacrificabitis et non ultra, apparuit mihi per arithmeticam superioris merchiaue illos computandi dies, esse in eo dicto expresse praedictum aduentum Christi.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 25041

'merchiaue' renders Hebrew 'merkabah'; Farmer's note glosses 'superior merkabah' as the speculative branch of the Kabbalah concerning divine things (farmer1998:25053).

English

By that saying of Zoroaster, 'Three days more you shall sacrifice, and no longer', it became clear to me, when I counted those days by the arithmetic of the higher merkabah, that the coming of Christ is foretold in that saying in so many words.

Sense checked against farmer1998:25073; no divergence.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T09b; sense checked against farmer1998:25073; awaiting human check; re-rendered 2026-09-27 by TRANSLATOR-FIX (D-13)

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

• 28.22 Licet fiat multiplex coordinatio curruum, tamen inquantum attinet ad phylacteriorum mysterium duo sunt currus ordinandi, ita ut ex secunda,
• 28.6 Magnus aquilo fons est animarum omnium simpliciter, sicut alu dies quarundam et non omnium.