What is the content of "Archidoxis magicae libri VII" of Paracelsus?

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Request for Question Clarification by pinkfreud-ga on 23 Jan 2004 12:43 PST

Is this what you seek?

http://www.madregrande.org/archmag1.htm#IChapter7

According to Waite:

http://www.sacred-texts.com/grim/bcm/bcm07.htm#fn_9

"The genuine Archidoxies are concerned with the alchemical separation
of elements, with transcendental Medicine and the Quintessence, with
Magisteries and Elixirs. The first complete rendering is in The
Hermetic and Alchemical Writings of Paracelsus, edited by myself, 2
vols. 4to 1894."

Book VII concerns Specifics.

hlabadie-ga

This is from Waite's edition:

"The Seventh Book of the Archidoxies

Concerning Specifics

"It remains, now, to speak also concerning specifics, in which reside
many marvellous and great virtues, which do not derive their origin
from nature, so far as they are warm or cold; but besides these
qualities they have one nature and essence, as we have mentioned in
several places. Such a specific takes its nature from externals, as
when a piece of wood is thrown into the fire and is burnt; that
burning is not part of its peculiar nature, but the being wood is.
Specifics, therefore, are produced from a conjunction..."

I can summarize the Book, if you want.

hlabadie-ga