User:Car Henkel/sandbox/Tria prima

The tria prima or three primes is a concept persistant in Western alchemy. It is a philosophical trichotomy often expressed as salt, mercury, and sulpher. It is also expressed as, and corresponds to the theological tripartite of body, soul, and spirit.

History
Bipartite (theology) Monad (philosophy) Axiom of Maria

Salt
Not NaCl

Correspondances
Saint Paul's tripartite nature of man (I Thes. 5:23)

from Trichotomy (philosophy) "Important trichotomies discussed by Aquinas include the causal principles (agent, patient, act), the potencies for the intellect (imagination, cogitative power, and memory and reminiscence), and the acts of the intellect (concept, judgment, reasoning), with all of those rooted in Aristotle; also the transcendentals of being (unity, truth, goodness) the requisites of the beautiful (wholeness, harmony, radiance)."