Heavenly and infernal spirits

Coelestes; Infernales; coelestis; coelesti; Coelestis; infernalis

Heavenly and infernal are the first two classes in a list of spirits that continues through human, metallic and other material spirits.

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Nine Books on the Nature of Things

Attributed to Paracelsus · Diotimos Editions · 2026

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Meaning

Heavenly and infernal are the first two classes in a list of spirits that continues through human, metallic and other material spirits. The list follows the claim that spirits vary as bodies vary. Elsewhere heavenly describes invisible fire and regenerated flesh. These uses are locally distinct: the passage does not explain every heavenly spirit through the human death narrative.

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  1. Book 4 · Life · Passage 1Latin“Spiritus Coelestes, Infernales”