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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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Olympicus spiritus

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Olympicus spiritus

Mind soul and inward powers · A Chymical Dictionary

At a Glance

The word. An inward star associated with a person’s shadow.

In the book. Spiritus Animalis also relates an inward power to the heavens, while Vmbratiles names astral bodies.

A place to read. The historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 36; facsimile PDF page 364.

Historical Definition

Olympicus spiritus is a star in a person that makes that person yield a shadow of themself.

Meaning

The definition places a star within the human being and attributes a shadow-producing action to it. Both star and shadow belong to the source’s description; the sentence gives no further account of the mechanism or the kind of shadow.

Use in the Book

Spiritus Animalis also relates an inward power to the heavens, while Vmbratiles names astral bodies. These articles can orient a reader within the celestial vocabulary without supplying an identity that the present definition does not state.

Imaginatio is also called a star in the human being, but its entry names imagination rather than describing shadow-production. The shared inward-star language is useful precisely because the stated functions differ.

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

Vmbratiles. Bodies qualified as astral.

Imaginatio. Imagination described through human, celestial and supercelestial relations.

In This Edition

The explanation keeps the source’s limited claim visible. It has not been expanded into a modern theory of perception or a particular later account of an astral double.

Historical source: 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 36; facsimile PDF page 364 — Facsimile

Sources. A Chymicall Dictionary (1650), s.v. Olympicus spiritus; 1650 facsimile PDF p. 364; compare Spiritus Animalis, Vmbratiles, Imaginatio

See also. Spiritus Animalis; Vmbratiles; Imaginatio

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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.