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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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Ilech magnum

Spirits celestial influences and signs · A Chymical Dictionary

At a Glance

The word. A medicine’s hidden star explained through a higher and lower correspondence.

In the book. Constellatio concerns the impression of higher stars or their virtues upon lower bodies.

A place to read. The historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 26; facsimile PDF page 354.

Historical Definition

Ilech magnum is the ascendant or star of a medicine, taken together with it and hidden in it; as higher stars are in the firmament, so lower stars are in a human being.

Meaning

The definition relates a medicine to an ascendant or star hidden within it and taken with it. It then explains the relation through a comparison: higher stars in the firmament correspond to lower stars in a human being. The sentence therefore connects a preparation, a hidden efficacy and the human recipient within one historical account.

The compiler does not identify the star as a separately visible ingredient or say how it is located. The wording instead asks the reader to understand that something described in astral terms accompanies the medicine.

Use in the Book

Constellatio concerns the impression of higher stars or their virtues upon lower bodies. Corpora cœlestia Spagyrorum defines astral virtues present in their matter, and Ileidus gives an elemental air that in people is a spirit passing through the members. These comparisons illuminate the language of hidden activity and human correspondences without making every entry a synonym for a medicine’s star.

Places to Read

Constellatio. The influence of higher stars understood as an impression in lower things.

Corpora cœlestia Spagyrorum. Celestial bodies of the spagyrists understood as astral virtues in matter.

Ileidus. Elemental air given a human counterpart as a circulating or pervasive spirit.

In This Edition

The modernised wording preserves the comparison and its direction. It supplies no additional planetary assignment or rule for preparing a medicine.

Historical source: 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 26; facsimile PDF page 354 — Facsimile

Sources. A Chymicall Dictionary 1650, s.v. Ilech magnum

See also. Constellatio; Corpora cœlestia Spagyrorum; Ileidus

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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.

Rights

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.