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Nine Books on the Nature of Things
Attributed to Paracelsus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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The opening account says putrefaction changes things from their first form and essence and later defines it as destruction of first essence. These nouns distinguish a prior mode of being from its transformed result, alongside changes of colour, smell and power. The passage does not supply a formal philosophical taxonomy separating every use of form from essence. Its practical question is what a thing becomes when its earlier condition ends.
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- Book 1 · Generation · Passage 1Latin“a prima sua forma & essentia”