Indestructibility

Meaning

The main matter-description calls its nature indestructible, its body uncorrupted and beyond attack by an element, comparing it to heaven above the four elements and qualities. These are strong claims about its special constitution and endurance within the philosophers’ account, not simply an ordinary hard substance.

The English distinguishes ‘uncorrupted body’ from the surrounding ‘indestructible’ descriptions. The prologue must remain visible beside them: it calls the restorative itself naturally destructible and denies that it abolishes bodily death. The text’s exalted characterization should not be expanded into absolute physical immortality, nor should the tension between those formulations be removed by silently deleting one.