essentia

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The strongest of them are called essential oils, after the medieval alchemist’s notion of quinta essentia, a fifth essence of heavenly origin — a life force — to be extracted from terrestrial materials.

From New York Times • May 10, 2021

Our eternal life remains "perpetuo in divina essentia sine discretione," but continually flows out "per æternam Verbi generationem."

From Christian Mysticism by Inge, William Ralph

Et tamen res saltem tres sunt; una essentia est sulphur; una est sal; una est Mercurius.

From The Sceptical Chymist or Chymico-Physical Doubts & Paradoxes, Touching the Spagyrist's Principles Commonly call'd Hypostatical; As they are wont to be Propos'd and Defended by the Generality of Alchymists. Whereunto is præmis'd Part of another Discourse relating to the same Subject. by Boyle, Robert

But my doubt is here:--How am I to discover what are the essentia of any Louse, whether Egyptian or not?

From Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character by Ramsay, Edward Bannerman

Si potentiae animae non sunt ipsa essentia animae, sequitur quod sint accidentia in aliquo novem generum contenta.

From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Coffey, Peter