Magic · thesis 9>6

Thesis 9>6

Latin

Quodcunque fiat opus mirabile, siue sit magicum, siue cabalisticum, siue cuiuscunque alterius generis, principalissime referendum est in deum gloriosum et benedictum, cuius gratia supercaelestes mirabilium uirtutum aquas super contemplatiuos homines bonae uoluntatis quotidie pluit liberaliter.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 25194; 1486 print folio <28v/29r>

English

Whatever marvelous work is done, whether magical, or cabalistic, or of any other kind, must be referred, above all, to God, glorious and blessed, whose grace daily and liberally rains supercelestial waters of marvelous powers upon contemplative men of good will.

Sense checked against farmer1998:25231; no divergence.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T09b; sense checked against farmer1998:25231; awaiting human check

Attribution: Pico's own opinion (section 9>, magical conclusions) · Pico's stance: endorses

Discussed in

• Giulio Busi and Raphael Ebgi, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola: Mito, magia, Qabbalah (2014)

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

Farmer's cross-references

• 1>6 De distinctione ex natura rei non debent discordare Thomistae et Scotistae, si suos doctores fundamentaliter intelligant.
• 9>12 Forma totius magicae uirtutis est ab anima hominis stante, et non cadente.
• 9>20 Quaelibet uox uirtutem habet in magia, inquantum dei uoce formatur.
• 9>7 Non potuerunt opera Christi uel per uiam magiae uel per uiam cabalae fieri.
• 9>8 Miracula Christi non ratione rei factae, sed ratione modi faciendi, suae diuinitatis argumentum certissimum sunt.
• 9>9 Nulla est scientia quae nos magis certificet de diuinitate Christi. quam magia et cabala.