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Prima Materia is, according to alchemists, the alleged primitive formless base of all matter, given particular manifestation through the influence of forms. Alchemy a part of the Occult Tradition is both a philosophy and a practice with an ultimately unknown aim involving the improvement of the alchemist as well as the making of The concept is sometimes attributed to Aristotle, but apparently emerged after his lifetime, out of errors of interpretation. Aristotle (Greek Aristotélēs) (384 BC – 322 BC was a Greek philosopher a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. [1]

References

  1. ^ King, Hugh R. (June 1956). "Aristotle without Prima Materia". Journal of the History of Ideas 17 (3): 370–389. doi:10.2307/2707550. A digital object identifier ( DOI) is a permanent identifier given to an Electronic document.  



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