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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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Guarini

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Guarini

Spirits celestial influences and signs · A Chymical Dictionary

At a Glance

The word. People described through a sustaining heavenly influence.

In the book. Formæ rerum describes influences received from celestial bodies, while Confirmamentum gives a human astral body.

A place to read. The historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 24; facsimile PDF page 352.

Historical Definition

Guarini are human beings living by the influence of heaven.

Meaning

The definition attributes life to the influence of heaven but does not explain what distinguishes these people or how the influence acts. It should remain a historical description rather than being expanded into a particular rank, community or practice.

Use in the Book

Formæ rerum describes influences received from celestial bodies, while Confirmamentum gives a human astral body. These comparisons provide the dictionary’s broader language of heavenly efficacy in human life. Guarini itself supplies no further classification or account of the persons named.

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Confirmamentum. A body described through an internal or human astral relation.

Formæ rerum. Forms explained through received celestial influences or active virtues.

Historical source: 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 24; facsimile PDF page 352 — Facsimile

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

See also. Confirmamentum; Formæ rerum

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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.