Art and operations

Heterogeneous; foreign to the nature

heterogeneum

The neuter adjective denotes what has acceded to a body without belonging to the sought nature and should be separated in the author’s purification account.

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A New Light of Alchemy

Michael Sendivogius · Diotimos Editions · 2026

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English renderings
heterogeneous; foreign to the nature

Meaning

Form.

The neuter adjective denotes what has acceded to a body without belonging to the sought nature and should be separated in the author’s purification account. It pairs with joining pure to pure, cooked to cooked and raw to raw according to nature’s weight. The criticism is not simply of any mixture: it targets incompatible additions that frustrate a specific natural conjunction.

Places to read

  1. Treatise XII · Passage 3Latinillud quod naturae accessit heterogeneum.