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Nine Books on the Nature of Things
Attributed to Paracelsus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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Microcosmic fire names the bodily condition which a mineral arcanum is said to extinguish in miners. It is not the ordinary furnace flame used to prepare the material. The phrase applies the work’s smaller-world language to a medical explanation and is linked to an internal reference to books on metallic diseases, rather than a modern diagnostic definition.
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- Book 7 · Transmutations · Passage 6Latin“ad restinguendum ignem microcosmicum”