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Nine Books on the Nature of Things
Attributed to Paracelsus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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Removal supplies the recurring grammar of mortification: something loses a named power-bearing fraction or quality. Metallic structure and fatness, fragrant odour, sweetness and spirit of salt are different objects of this action. Book VI’s concluding rule reverses the relation by returning what was taken away and separated. The family links the life catalogue to death and restoration without declaring every loss irreversible.
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- Book 5 · Death · Passage 20Latin“ablatio & distillatio”