Zoroaster and Chaldeans · thesis 8>15

Thesis 8>15

Latin

Quid sit intelligendum per capras apud Zoroastrem intelliget qui legerit in libro Bair quae sit affinitas capris et quae agnis cum spiritibus.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 25046

'Bair' is Pico's spelling of the Bahir; kept as printed.

English

Whoever reads in the book Bahir what kinship the she-goats have, and what the lambs have, with spirits will grasp what the she-goats mean in Zoroaster.

Sense checked against farmer1998:25079; no divergence.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T09b; sense checked against farmer1998:25079; awaiting human check

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

• 28.1 Sicut homo et sacerdos inferior sacrificat deo animas animalium irrationalium, ita Michael sacerdos superior sacrificat animas animalium rat