Tria prima — transformative centre

Meeting point of the three principles

This central marker is a compositional focus for sulfur, mercury, and salt as mutually informing principles in Paracelsian natural philosophy. Its navel-area coordinate is an editorial body projection for visual balance, not a claim that a physical tria-prima organ exists there.

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Point 1 of 1 in Paracelsian Tria Prima — Three Principles

Cross-tradition overlaps

No overlapping points are registered for this point.

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Sources

Paracelsus, Selected Writings (primary_canonical)

Liber Paragranum, Book I, sets out the tria prima—sulfur, mercury, and salt—as philosophical principles of natural bodies; see Book I, sections on the three principles.

Walter Pagel, Paracelsus: An Introduction to Philosophical Medicine in the Era of the Renaissance (scholarly_modern)

Historical analysis of Paracelsian philosophy and medicine, including the tria prima; see chapters on Paracelsian natural philosophy.

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