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has glosseng: Prima Materia is, according to alchemists, the alleged primitive formless base of all matter, given particular manifestation through the influence of forms. The concept is sometimes attributed to Aristotle, but apparently emerged after his lifetime, out of errors of interpretation. The alchemical operation consists essentially in separating the prima materia, the so-called chaos, into the active principle, the soul, and the passive principle, the body. They are then reunited in personified form in the coniunctio, the ritual combination of sol and Luna, which yields the magical child (filius sapientiae or filius philosophorum), the reborn self, known as the ultima materia. The collective unconscious appears in the many symbols of religion, myth, art, and dreams. The Ouroboros dragon biting its own tail depicts the original chaotic condition, which prevails before the radical transmutation. But it contains all the refined ingredients of the ultimate state in their uncooked form—the heat has yet to be applied to the unrefined material, raw uncooked emotion.
lexicalizationeng: prima materia
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has glossdeu: Prima materia ( Latein: Erste Materie oder Stoff) ist ein metaphysischer Begriff der ursprünglich aus Aristoteles Werk Metaphysica stammt. Materie ohne Form nannte er prima materia, oder erste Materie, die selbst ohne Form wirklich nichts war oder darstellte.
lexicalizationdeu: Prima materia
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has glossnld: Prima materia (Latijn: Eerste materie of stof) is een begrip uit de alchemie. Het duidt geen materie in de gewone zin aan, maar eerder een potentieel tot materie. Het begrip is essentieel in de alchemie, om de theorie van transmutatie van gewone metalen in edele metalen te ondersteunen. De eerste materie is ook in negatieve zin te begrijpen als dat wat rest nadat alles aan een object is ontnomen wat het aan karakteristieken bezat. Het begrip prima materia (materia prima) als materie zonder vorm is mogelijk terug te voeren op een concept uit Aristoteles' metafysica, al is dit niet onomstreden.
lexicalizationnld: prima materia
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