Quinta Essentia

Quinta essentia in Hebrew." In The Jewish alchemists, ed. Raphael Patai, 207-217., 1994. 

Heretic, Alchemist The Quinta Essentia in Hebrew Flamel s Jewish Masters Two Spanish Jewish Court Alchemists Abraham Eleazar Themo Judaei Pt. 6 The Fifteenth Century Simeon ben Semah Duran Solomon Trismosin and His Jewish Master ... 

Patai, Raphael. An unknown Hebrew medical alchemist A medieval treatise on the "quinta essentia". Medical History 28 (1984) 308-323. 

Burckhardt, Titus. Mirror of the intellect essays on traditional science and sacred art. Quinta Essentia, 1987. 

Guenon, Rene. Fundamental symbols. Cambridge Quinta Essentia, 1995. 

Figure 5.2 This illustration shows the relationship between the four elements and the four qualities. Alchemical symbols for the elements are shown in the corners of the center diamond. The white star in the center represents the Quinta Essentia, or the fifth element. (Robert M. Place)...

Besides the four elements, the alchemists believed in a fifth element, which is actually the Anima Mundi or Materia Prima interacting and vitalizing the other four. This is known as the Quinta Essentia, which is the origin of the word quintessence. This hidden substance is exposed when the Philosopher s Stone is created. 

The fifth element may also be thought of as Ether, the incorruptible substance that the planets and stars were thought to be made of. Because they are so illusive the Quinta Essentia and the Philosopher s Stone are usually depicted as a mystical diagram called a mandala. 

Figure 5.3 The Philosopher s Stone and the Quinta Essentia depicted as a mandala. (Robert M. Place)...

Lennep, Art and Alchimie, 48-49. Similarly, this resplendent figure, now labelled Anima Mercurii, appeared in an engraving included in Leonard Thumeysser s Quinta Essentia (Munster, 1570) see Lennep, Alchimie Contribution, Fig. 41. 

Johannes de Rupescissa, Liber de famulatu philosophiae or liber de considera-tione quintae essentiae ], copied 4 Oct. 1590, fos. 181—96. 

QUINTA ESSENTIA — Quintessence, Nature, Potencies, Virtue, Tincture, Life, Spirit, the Medicine itself, and the quality of substances separated by Art from the body. If removed from its special form, it reverts to its general form, and progresses higher, until it rests in the centre. 

QUINTA ESSENTIA — Heaven neither cold nor hot, neither moist nor dry, but temperate, tempers the soul. Burning Water. 

QUINTA ESSENTIA — is the Mysterium, exalted to the purity of ethereal nature, and the highest virtues. So is it usually called the Heaven and Celestial Substance, in which the substantial root and the purest and most sincere contraction do remain, a flowing down of the ether, as it might be, or the ray of the firmament, which, by the voice of the Creator, was flashed through the soul of the world. 

QUINTA ESSENTIA VEGETABILIUM — the Quintessence of Vegetable Substances, is that which is extracted from the components of vegetable things. It is most generally extracted from the Sap. Quintessence of Wine has the primacy. Lully calls it Vegetable Mercury others. Water of Primal Being, Heaven, Key, etc. 

QUINTA ESSENTIA ANIMALIUM — Quintessence of Animals, is that which is extracted from the components of Animals, by reason of the mixture of the natural and vegetable parts. In this case, the Praxis differs little from the vegetable preparation. 

QUINTA ESSENTIA MINERALIUM — Quintessence of Minerals, is that which is extracted from Minerals. Chief among such Quintessences are those of precious Stones and Minerals. 

Meanwhile, Paracelsus (1493-1541) worked on distillation to separate the essential from the non-essential parts of a compound, and developed further the quinta essentia (quintessence) theory of a fifth element, involved in imbuing life. His radical ideas greatly influenced medicine during the Renaissance. According to Paracelsus, God makes... 

Pagel, Paracelsus, 244, 258-259, 263-273. For the transmission of Rupescissa s work in German, see Udo Benzenhofer, Johannes de Rupescissa Liber de consideratione quintae essentiae omnium rerum deutsch (Stuttgart Steiner, 1989). 

Benzenhofer, Udo. Johannes de Rupesdssa Liber de consideratione quintae essentiae omnium rerum deutsch (Stuttgart Steiner, 1989). 

SENIOR says thus Our Fire is a Water. If you can give a Fire to a Fire and Mercury to Mercury, then you know enough. He further says The Soul is extracted by Putrefaction, and when nothing more of the soul remains, then have you well washed the Body, that they both again are one. Then it is called QUINTA ESSENTIA, the Quintessence, or a Spirit, Permanent Water or Menstruum. 

Quinta Essentia. Das 1st die hbchste Subtiltet Krafft... L. Thurneysser, 1570. 

The notion of the four elements held sway over the minds of men for two thousand years. Though now dead, as far as science is concerned, it still lives on in our common phrases. We speak of the raging of the elements, for instance, when we wish to say that wind (air) and waves (water) are driven to fury by a storm. As for the fifth element (ether), the phrase becomes quinta essentia in Latin, and we still mark its Aristotelian perfection when we speak of the quintessence of anything, meaning that thing in its purest and most concentrated form. 

Theophrastus von Hohenheim, known under the name Paracelsus (1493-1541), a physician and alchemist of the fteenth century, de ned the role of alchemy by developing medicines and extracts from healing plants. He believed distillation released the most desirable part of the plant, the Quinta essentia or quintessence by a means of separating the essential part from the nonessential containing its subtle and essential constituents. The currently used term essential oil still refers to the theory of Quinta essentia of Paracelsus. 

Volatile oils comprise all the substances which pass through steam distillation process. The origin of volatile oil is traditional of German work Aetherischen Oele in the first time described by GUdemeister and Hoffmann in 1899 [1]. It is the Quinta essentia (quintessence) which represents the efficient part of every dmg. The current name essential oil recalls the Paracelsian concept [2], The quintessential oil originates fi om the Aristotelian idea that matter is composed of four elements, namely, fire, air, earth, and water. The fifth element, or quintessence, was then considered to be spirit or life force [3]. The term essential oils is also used for volatile oils. 

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