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God's likeness as an alleged criterion of salvation

similitudinem Dei; salvari; similitudo Dei

The monster paragraph asserts that the beings it condemns lack God’s likeness and therefore cannot be saved.

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Nine Books on the Nature of Things

Attributed to Paracelsus · Diotimos Editions · 2026

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Meaning

The monster paragraph asserts that the beings it condemns lack God’s likeness and therefore cannot be saved. Similitudo is used as a supposed theological criterion tied to bodily difference, not as an innocent observation of resemblance. The edition explicitly rejects these conclusions as judgments of actual people’s character or spiritual standing. The phrase links visible appearance to the text’s asserted exclusion from salvation.

Places to read

  1. Book 1 · Generation · Passage 8Latin“cum non gerant similitudinem Dei”