Impiety, heresy and natural possibility

impietate; haeresi; haeretica; impietas; haeresis

The first controversial reproductive scenario is called naturally possible yet inseparable from impiety and heresy.

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Nine Books on the Nature of Things

Attributed to Paracelsus · Diotimos Editions · 2026

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Meaning

The first controversial reproductive scenario is called naturally possible yet inseparable from impiety and heresy. The next paragraph expressly says the woman in its different scenario should not on that account be judged a heretic. These clauses separate proposed natural possibility from moral judgment and distinguish the judgments between cases. Omitting either would flatten a source passage whose biological assertions are false but whose qualifications still matter for interpretation.

Places to read

  1. Book 1 · Generation · Passage 4Latin“sine impietate & haeresi id fieri nequit”