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.
Point 1 of 1 in Paracelsian Tria Prima — Three Principles
Cross-tradition overlaps
No overlapping points are registered for this point.
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.