08-21-2023, 11:57 AM
By Hiro Hirai
" Paracelsus’s concept of seeds is an important contribution to
Renaissance theories of matter. Unlike the alchemists’ notion of metal
seeds, it has a strong Christian orientation, based on a particular inter-
pretation of the biblical Creation story. It is in this cosmogonical aspect
that Paracelsian seeds are more akin to the seminal reasons of Augustine
than to the logoi spermatikoi of the Stoics or Plotinus. The present study
examines the Augustinian background of this Paracelsian concept and
Marsilio Ficino’s intermediary role in its origination."
https://www.cairn-int.info/journal-revue...ge-245.htm
" Paracelsus’s concept of seeds is an important contribution to
Renaissance theories of matter. Unlike the alchemists’ notion of metal
seeds, it has a strong Christian orientation, based on a particular inter-
pretation of the biblical Creation story. It is in this cosmogonical aspect
that Paracelsian seeds are more akin to the seminal reasons of Augustine
than to the logoi spermatikoi of the Stoics or Plotinus. The present study
examines the Augustinian background of this Paracelsian concept and
Marsilio Ficino’s intermediary role in its origination."
https://www.cairn-int.info/journal-revue...ge-245.htm