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Nine Books on the Nature of Things
Attributed to Paracelsus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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The linked chain and ordered ladder explain why the stages may not be rearranged. Removing a link frees the captive; moving a rung breaks the ladder and endangers the climber. These concrete images distinguish procedural order from mere importance: putrefaction may deserve priority in power while still remaining fourth in the prescribed sequence of the mystery.
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- Book 7 · Transmutations · Passage 5Latin“sicut articuli in catena aut gradus in scala”