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Nine Books on the Nature of Things
Attributed to Paracelsus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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The lifespan discussion distinguishes ordinary appointed limits from the supposed persistence of bodies protected underground. It includes Gigantes and pygmei, allegedly living for centuries in mountain caverns. Bodies not subject to external elements are assigned no other limit than the elements themselves, ending on the last day. Terminus therefore has a cosmological horizon here, not merely a measurable mining boundary or a promise of ordinary human survival beneath the earth.
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- Book 9 · Signature · Passage 43Latin“nullum tempus, nullum terminum”