Archee, digestive natural heat

Meaning

Archee is defined in the historical marginal explanation as fire or natural heat which digests and acts upon the materials supplied for generation. In the surrounding account, Demogorgon uses Iliaste to provide matter and Archee to excite vital heat. They are two instruments of formation, preservation and increase, not two rival creators. Digestion here is the maturation of generative material, wider than the digestion of food. The brackets in the supplied text enclose the author’s marginal definitions, not a modern reconstruction of his system; the local functional definition is more secure than importing additional doctrines under the name.