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Nine Books on the Nature of Things
Attributed to Paracelsus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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A programmatic word in Book VI. The author asks to be understood with the greatest discrimination, then specifies the difference between dying and being mortified. The term signals that superficially similar dead states have different histories and prospects. It also serves a polemical purpose: careful distinctions are meant to prevent opponents from presenting the author as claiming God’s unrestricted power.
Places to read
- Book 6 · Resuscitation · Passage 1Latin“cum maximo discrimine intelligi”