Magic · thesis 9>7

Thesis 9>7

Latin

Non potuerunt opera Christi uel per uiam magiae uel per uiam cabalae fieri.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 25200

English

Christ's works could never have been accomplished by the route of magic, nor by the route of the Cabala.

Sense checked against farmer1998:25237; no divergence.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T09b; sense checked against farmer1998:25237; awaiting human check

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

Discussed in

• Crofton Black, Pico's Heptaplus and Biblical Hermeneutics (2006)
• (unidentified), Knots and Spirals I: Pico della Mirandola (n.d.)

Mention records in the corpus: 3 (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>10 Quod magus homo facit per artem, fecit natura naturaliter faciendo hominem.
• 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.