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Nine Books on the Nature of Things
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Book 8 · Separation · Passage 9
Source reference
- Latin witness
- 1605 p. 238
Latin
Post hanc separationem factam, deinde per mortem hominis a se invicem etiam separantur tres substantiae, nimirum corpus, Anima, & Spiritus, quolibet ad suum locum tendente, ad Arcam, ex qua originaliter prodiit, corpore scilicet ad terram, ad primam Elementorum materiam: Anima ad primam materiam Sacramentorum: Spiritu denique ad primam materiam aerei chai.
English
After this separation has occurred, human death also separates three substances from one another: body, soul and spirit. Each tends towards its own place, towards the repository from which it originally came: the body to earth, the first matter of the elements; the soul to the first matter of the sacraments; and the spirit, finally, to the first matter of the airy chaos.
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The complete supplied Latin–English edition of the historical title, dedication and all nine books, with 363 separately labelled historical marginal notes, 117 modern annotations and the complete Diotimos study apparatus. The transmitted composite work is traditionally attributed to Paracelsus; individual authorship remains qualified.
Historical Text and Translation
The normalized Latin follows the complete 1605 Frankfurt Palthenian witness, volume six, printed pages 198–271, in SUB Göttingen PPN578052199, historical scans 182–255. Earlier textual tradition is German; the individual translator of the 1605 Latin text is not identified. The dedication’s 1537 date is transmitted text, not an established date for the composite work.
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