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Diotimos Library · Esotericism & Spirituality Collection · English Edition

Gerhard Dorn and John French

A Chymical Dictionary

An Expanded Diotimos Lexicon of Paracelsian and Alchemical Language

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Spirits celestial influences and signs · A Chymical Dictionary

At a Glance

The word. A visible apparition described as supernatural and spiritual.

In the book. Trarames offers a useful contrast because its spiritual actions are heard but unseen.

A place to read. The historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 46; facsimile PDF page 374.

Historical Definition

Visio is a supernatural apparition of spirits seen by people in some manner.

Meaning

The definition specifies apparition, spirits and human seeing. In some manner preserves the source’s open qualification about how that appearance occurs. It supplies no particular instrument or setting.

Use in the Book

Trarames offers a useful contrast because its spiritual actions are heard but unseen. Similitudines names celestial appearances more broadly. Comparing these entries keeps different modes of perception visible within the historical account.

Places to Read

Similitudines. Appearances described as celestial.

Trarames. Spiritual actions identified through sound without visible appearance.

Historical source: 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 46; facsimile PDF page 374 — Facsimile

Sources. A Chymicall Dictionary (1650), s.v. Visio; 1650 facsimile PDF p. 374; compare Similitudines, Trarames

See also. Similitudines; Trarames

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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.