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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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A Chymical Dictionary

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Flagæ

Spirits celestial influences and signs · A Chymical Dictionary

At a Glance

The word. Spirits distinguished by hidden knowledge of people.

In the book. Xeninephidei are said to disclose the secret properties of nature to people, while Evestrum is associated with prophetic signs.

A place to read. The historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 22; facsimile PDF page 350.

Historical Definition

Flagæ are spirits that know the occult secrets of human beings.

Meaning

The definition attributes a kind of knowledge rather than a particular habitat or appearance. The secrets belong to human beings and are called occult. The entry does not say that these spirits reveal that knowledge or explain how a person would encounter them.

Use in the Book

Xeninephidei are said to disclose the secret properties of nature to people, while Evestrum is associated with prophetic signs. Those descriptions concern different kinds of knowing or disclosure. Flagæ should not inherit a revelatory or prophetic role that its own definition does not state.

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Evestrum. A prophetic agency associated with signs preceding events.

Xeninephidei. Spirits described as revealers of hidden natural properties.

Historical source: 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 22; facsimile PDF page 350 — Facsimile

Sources. A Chymicall Dictionary 1650, s.v. Flagæ

See also. Evestrum; Xeninephidei

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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.