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[Sources, Mike Dougherty, 10/1/24]:

All: Toward the end of the Oratio Pico is careful to separate demonic magic from natural magic, where the latter is an extension of natural philosophy and seeks “the powers interspersed and implanted at intervals in the world by the beneficence of God (inter sparsas Dei beneficio et inter seminatas mundo virtutes).” Pico appears to be paraphrasing a text from the second-century philosopher Apuleius, who in a discussion of magic in the Apologia or Pro se de magia asserted that “many [remedies] truly have been interspersed and implanted at intervals in all other things by the same gift of nature (sane sunt plurima [remedia] cum in aliis omnibus rebus eodem naturae munere interspersa atque interseminata)” (§40). Both Apuleius and Pico seek to legitimate a study of the hidden powers of nature that is separate from demonic magic. For the presence of Apuleius’s Apologia or Pro se de magia among Pico’s books, see Pearl Kibre, The Library of Pico della Mirandola (New York: Columbia University Press, 1936 [repr. AMS Press, 1966]), 51, note 18, and the entries §797, §656.
 

[Latin to Spanish Translation, Ernesto Priani Saiso, 10/1/24]:

All: La Magia es la parte práctica de la ciencia natural.