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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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Scaiolæ

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Scaiolæ

Mind soul and inward powers · A Chymical Dictionary

At a Glance

The word. Four powers of the mind coordinated with the elements.

In the book. Compare Spiritus Animalis, where a power of the soul is described through likeness to the heavens.

A place to read. The historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 42; facsimile PDF page 370.

Historical Definition

Scaiolæ are the spiritual powers and faculties of the mind, four in number according to the four elements.

Meaning

The definition connects mental faculties with elemental number. Its fourfold division is explicit, but the individual faculties are not named in this sentence. The reader should distinguish the supplied number from a complete taxonomy.

Use in the Book

Compare Spiritus Animalis, where a power of the soul is described through likeness to the heavens. Both entries connect an inward faculty with a wider natural order, although they do so through different relations.

Places to Read

Spiritus Animalis. A power of the soul described through likeness to the heavens.

Qualitas. The balance of hot, cold, dry and moist qualities.

Historical source: 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 42; facsimile PDF page 370 — Facsimile

Sources. A Chymicall Dictionary (1650), s.v. Scaiolæ; 1650 facsimile PDF p. 370; compare Spiritus Animalis, Qualitas

See also. Spiritus Animalis; Qualitas

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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.

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

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