Discourse on Curious Matters

Discourse

verse falls back home again / and is resuscitated original: resuscitiret—revived or restored to life?

14. How then is it to be recognized as naturally true / that the human body shall rise again referring to the Resurrection of the Dead?

15. How then is a plant original: Planta naturally or artificially resuscitated original: resuscitiret—this likely refers to "palingenesis," the alchemical feat of regenerating a plant from its own ashes?

16. Whether the slime original: Limus—the primordial mud or clay from which Adam was formed, or the first matter of man original: prima materia hominis, is not common earth?

17. How then is the image of God to be viewed / and recognized?

18. Whether a secret does not reside original: versire within the inflow of air original: Influxu aëris and the outflowing of the breath original: Odem?

19. Whether a yet more hidden understanding might lie within those three essential parts original: tribus partibus essentialibus—in alchemy, these are usually Salt, Sulfur, and Mercury, the building blocks of all matter?

20. How then man and woman stand in one subject original: uno Subjecto—likely a reference to the alchemical "Rebis" or "Androgyne," where opposing forces are united in a single substance / and how this essence might multiply original: multipliciren itself?

When Monsieur Marin possibly a reference to the French scholar Marin Mersenne, who corresponded widely on such topics had looked through these points several times / he said / that the detailed explanation would require some time / and he wondered