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Nine Books on the Nature of Things
Attributed to Paracelsus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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An impression is one of the author’s chosen names for human life, qualified here as balsamic. It stands beside astral balsam, heavenly invisible fire, enclosed air and a tinging spirit of salt. The passage calls these principal descriptions, not a sequence of ingredients to combine. No specific agency or physical mechanism for imprinting is supplied in this paragraph.
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- Book 4 · Life · Passage 2Latin“balsamica impressio”