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Nine Books on the Nature of Things
Attributed to Paracelsus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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The root contains the single power called the herb’s first being and spirit. That power sustains growth and is said to return to the root as the visible herb dries, allowing annual renewal. The account distinguishes survival of the root’s power from the short season of the shoot, answering an objection about how a herb can have more than several months’ age.
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- Book 9 · Signature · Passage 38Latin“unicam virtutem in radice”