God and knowledge

Distinguish; judge between

diiudicare

The title’s prayer asks to distinguish between true and false.

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A New Light of Alchemy

Michael Sendivogius · Diotimos Editions · 2026

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English renderings
distinguish; judge between

Meaning

Form.

The title’s prayer asks to distinguish between true and false. This anticipates the preface’s insistence on mature judgment, exact wording and nature’s possibilities as criteria for reading. It belongs to the title-page voice and religious framing, not to a technical process performed on material. The word gives the edition’s opening a discriminative purpose rather than a promise of indiscriminate revelation.

Places to read

  1. Sulphur Title · 1616 · Passage 1LatinUt possim diiudicare inter verum et falsum.