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Nine Books on the Nature of Things
Attributed to Paracelsus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
Browse this book’s lexicon →Marcasites, cachymiae, talc and garnets
marcasitarum; Marcasitae; marcasita; cachymiarum; cachymia; talci; talcum; granatorum; granatum; Marcasita
Marcasites, cachymiae, talc and garnets belong to the same life and mortification catalogues.
Meaning
Marcasites, cachymiae, talc and garnets belong to the same life and mortification catalogues. Their shared life is a tinging metallic spirit; in the later account that spirit rises with spirit of salt, leaving a washed dead earth without virtue. This is an operative grouping of historically named materials, not a modern mineral class. Cachymia remains an insufficiently specified historical designation; the text supplies no separate composition for it.
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- Book 5 · Death · Passage 24Latin“Mortificatio marcasitarum”
From the book
Nine Books on the Nature of Things
Attributed to Paracelsus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
Browse this book’s lexicon →Marcasites and garnets in maturation
Marcasitae; marcasitae; Granati; granati
Marcasites and garnets appear in the list of mineral materials said to carry immature Gold and Silver and to become comparable to rich ore veins through maturation.
Meaning
Marcasites and garnets appear in the list of mineral materials said to carry immature Gold and Silver and to become comparable to rich ore veins through maturation. They recur among things credited with continuing growth in earth and water. The list’s importance lies in that attributed shared capacity, not in a supplied mineralogical analysis of each member. Historical names should not make the maturation claim appear established by modern classification.
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- Book 2 · Growth · Passage 1Latin“Marcasitae, Granati”