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Nine Books on the Nature of Things
Attributed to Paracelsus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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The upper stars’ marking activity is called a predestined commission and office, not power or dominion over humanity. The distinction specifies purpose: inward force is to become visible through outward signs. It is a limit internal to the source’s theology, not a rejection of astral influence altogether, and it explains why the author can defend both signs and wise resistance.
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- Book 9 · Signature · Passage 21Latin“mandatum ac officium”