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Nine Books on the Nature of Things
Attributed to Paracelsus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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The matter to be tinged must be open and in flow so that tincture can operate. Apertus here concerns the material’s receptive condition, not an instruction to leave a vessel uncovered. The ice-and-water comparison explains the distinction: a colour penetrates liquid water more readily than frozen water, while the metallic application requires release from coagulation.
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- Book 7 · Transmutations · Passage 9Latin“apertam esse, & in fluxu stare”