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Gerhard Dorn and John French

A Chymical Dictionary

An Expanded Diotimos Lexicon of Paracelsian and Alchemical Language

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Iliaster tertius

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At a Glance

The word. The third human Iliaster associated with life through quintessence.

In the book. Essentia quinta explains quintessence through extraction, purification and claimed incorruptibility.

A place to read. The historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 27; facsimile PDF page 355.

Historical Definition

Iliaster tertius is the term of the balsam, or the life received through the quintessence of things.

Meaning

Quintessence distinguishes the third entry from the second. The source describes a term of balsam or life received through the quintessence of things, without identifying the things or explaining a practical preparation within this gloss.

The sequence therefore should not be read as a series of four ingredients. Its entries concern descriptions or sources of life and then a different relation of the soul or mind.

Use in the Book

Essentia quinta explains quintessence through extraction, purification and claimed incorruptibility. Iliaster secundus concerns life through elements and elemented things, while magnus or quartus names the fourth human branch. These cross-references preserve the contrast actually stated rather than treating quintessence as another ordinary element.

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Essentia quinta. Quintessence described through extraction, purification and claimed incorruptibility.

Iliaster. First matter organised through three principles, four elements and a further human fourfold account.

Iliaster secundus. The second human Iliaster associated with elemental life.

In This Edition

The modernised definition supplies the grammatical “is” omitted in the compressed original sentence. The substance of the historical claim remains unchanged.

Historical source: 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 27; facsimile PDF page 355 — Facsimile

Sources. A Chymicall Dictionary 1650, s.v. Iliaster tertius

See also. Essentia quinta; Iliaster; Iliaster secundus; Iliaster magnus

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About This Reading Edition

The complete 706 historical definitions of the 1650 English dictionary, modernised and accompanied by expanded Diotimos commentary, reading routes, 15 textual notes and complete linked indexes.

Historical Text

A Chymicall Dictionary, London 1650, English version associated with John French, based on Gerhard Dorn’s Dictionarium Theophrasti Paracelsi. The containing volume also prints Sendivogius and Paracelsus; neither neighboring work changes this dictionary’s attribution.

About This Edition

Complete 706 definition paragraphs with new introduction, commentary, reading guides and indexes; Diotimos Editions, 2026.

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The historical 1650 English text is in the public domain. New introduction, commentary, reading guides and indexes are © 2026 Diotimos Editions and published with the site owner’s authorization.