The term tria prima of Paracelsus explained and justified.

Cosmology has been formulated with four cosmic elements Water, Earth, Air and Heat (Fire). They are really the raw materials of creation. As final products in man there is Body, Spirit. and Soul. As ino-qanic substances they would be Salt, Mercury and Sulphur. But these as forms of matter would be Solid, Liquid and Gas (potentially). Thus the Tria Prima of Paracelsus is justifiable as representing the final or end products of creation. When man tried to study his environment he realized that he was on dry land but the surface of the earth could be divided as covered by water and dry land, better called here the earth. And of these two, water covered the larger portion of the surface of globe. As result water and earth became two cosmic elements. Then it was established that air was everywhere on the surface of the globe. Accordingly Air became the third cosmic element. Finally the heat of the sun raised the temperature of every thing on earth, Hence Heat became the fourth cosmic element. Now to convey these facts they resorted to symbolism, as a concise method of expression. The result was the symbol of cosmology, Water Air and Earth being forms of matter were tangible themselves but Heat being energy had to be symbolized by a tangible entity, Fire then was selected as the symbol of heat. Thus resutted four cosmic elements as Water, Air, Earth and Fire, By their homogeneous and extensive nature they were like raw materials of creation from which later on arose the final end products of creation. These however never appeared in any symbol of cosmology. The one who missed this most was the alchemist, Paracelsus (1). He took man as the model of creation, and man was constituted of three items, Body, Soul and Spirit. These were the Tria .SD 34-Block-A, N. Nazimabad, Karachi-33.