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Corrupted salt and corrosive inward disorder

Unsaltz; corrosio, Corrosiv

Unsalt is a deliberately reversed or corrupted salt: the soul’s salt loses its good condition through sharp, disorderly movement.

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Centrum Naturae Concentratum

Attributed to Ali Puli · Diotimos Editions · 2026

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English renderings
unsalt, corrupted salt, corrosion.

Meaning

Unsalt is a deliberately reversed or corrupted salt: the soul’s salt loses its good condition through sharp, disorderly movement. The Latin corrosio and the tastes bitter and sour reinforce the description. In the following paragraph a diabolical Corrosiv is the destructive agent that a soul transformed by God’s spirit will resist. These words carry an ethical-material analogy; they do not name a modern compound or say that a person’s soul is literally metallic.

Places to read

  1. The Concentrated Centre of Nature · Passage 11German“Unsaltz, corrosio, und bitter sauer” The damaged condition is described through salt, corrosion and taste.
  2. The Concentrated Centre of Nature · Passage 12German“kein Teuflisch Corrosiv” A destructive spiritual adversary is expressed in material language.