prima materia 1

noundomain: substance
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the primitive formless base of all matter similar to chaos, the quintessence, or aether.

  • 1.When alchemy developed in Greco-Roman Egypt on the foundations of Greek philosophy, it included the concept of prima materia as a central tenet.

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