Tincture without diminution (Nature dialogue)

Meaning

In Nature’s dialogue the tincture is tied to a paternal source whose power is communicated without its own diminution. The alchemist calls the Sun, or high red gold, the father of the Stone or elixir and says its operation inserts, fixes, digests and tinges without diminishing or corrupting that father. This is a generative analogy against destructive separation, not permission to identify ordinary gold with the finished tincture. Nature has already called the sought medicine more than a golden tincture, and the alchemist finally hopes to obtain the noble tincture through divine will and her aid. English “without diminution” preserves sine diminution as a stated limit on the source’s loss, not a verified conservation law. The nearby parenthesis about the true Stone breaks off after “den man auff der Erden nimmer”; note n193 marks that incompleteness, and no missing assertion is reconstructed. Note n194 also flags the tension between the gold-father formulation and the dialogue’s earlier limit on ordinary gold; the entry does not silently reconcile them.