…and of life and of purpose. This brings us, perhaps, to one of the outstanding examples of the creative concept of Paracelsus. And that is his conviction. of the interrelationship between maker-cosm and microcosm. You have to realize that this concept did…

…which man may consider in the search for essential knowledge. These being the universe, the sacred words, and the human body. Paracelsus pointed out that the universe is rather too large to be immediately comprehended by anyone. The only approach that we…

…must be correspondences in all parts of the universe. And if these correspondences coming together form patterns, it can be examined. Paracelsus pointed out that the most suitable, the most proper symbol from which man can learn the most about all things is…

…autocracy. We have a democracy in which all things must be served. All things must be protected. And we discover, as Paracelsus points out, the actual pattern of autocracy. Mainly that the true autocrat is the one who sacrifices all to preserve the…

…in this, of course, most advanced thinkers of the world have confirmed. However, there is much more to it than this. To the Paracelsus thinker, the entire story of man is a revelation of invisible causes. Man is like a stream pouring out of the unseen,…

…greater than body chemistry. Because these separate cells and parts of man do not have the authority which he possesses. And Paracelsus would not acknowledge that the sum of these lesser lies became inevitably and automatically a greater lie. In other words,…

…form the common body of man, genius, by their mingling and by their cooperation, produce a structure which we call man. Paracelsus insisted that this structure was ensouled and it became the instrument for a power invisible. That these structural parts, the…

…as this stream of life moves into the human body, no two cells will identically react, yet all will be commonly nourished. And Paracelsus carries this on into the level of religion. As he points out, it's the mystery of God and holiness is a river…

…on to the separate achievement which may be desired. Studying, therefore, this backdrop, this river pouring forever out of space, Paracelsus made considerable use of both the Neoplatonic and the Muslim doctrines relating to these things. He also borrowed much…

…from the beginning. This river, this stream flowing out of space passes through three great conditions according to the Paracelsus concept. These three conditions correspond essentially with the nature of the universe. The universe consisted of three parts,…

…for it was the belief of Plato that souls coming into generation descended from the Milky Way. the birthplace of soul. Paracelsus was not so literal in his thinking, but he declared that in the physical universe, the great stellar diffusion, which we…

…all these suns together and the rays that go from them. weave together the living luminous body of the infinite. The Paracelsus, which turns spiritual, is properly apportioned or attributed to that kind of energy which feeds the sun, feeding them directly,…

…sustained and directed not only by infinite life but by infinite wisdom. So, out of all of this vast thinking, Paracelsus formulated his own definition of spirit, not merely an absolutely invisible, intangible, ghostly energy somewhere in the source of…

…life, to love that life, whether they know it or not, to sleep when it departs, to awaken when it returns. So, the Paracelsus, a simple statement, man's spirit comes from the South, implies that he regards man as rooted in this ineffable energy, in this…

…as rooted in this ineffable energy, in this absolute life, absolute law, absolute wisdom. And from this eternal and wonderful contemplation, Paracelsus was able to rescue himself from certain of the theological problems of the time. He lived in a day when…

…if we could look inwards and see the dark sky of man, With its infinite constellations, you would then wonder if we would understand Paracelsus. He said that the heavens and the earth are in man. But just as surely as he lives in the midst of the…

…And here we come for a pretty problem for the psychologist. Well, according to the psychologist, the soul of man is himself. According to Paracelsus, it is not. The soul is no more the source of light than is the planet, the source of the soft glow by…

…disproven. Only man's increasing knowledge may give him a fuller comprehension of the details of its application. The soul, according to Paracelsus, therefore, is a very strange and wonderful thing. The soul is between the spirit and the body. It is composed…

…true humanity of man is established. And when the breath of life was breathed into man, he became a living soul. This, Paracelsus pointed out, has generally been ignored. We have assumed that man is an ensouled body. Actually, to the Paracelsian, this is…

…we do so, we will simply retard the natural growth of the soul and make slower its evolution and failing to operate with it. Paracelsus has an idea in here which may be a little strange to many people. I have tried to strengthen it, and I've come to…

…the Gnostics, but more directly upon the later Egyptian or hermetic mysteries that flourished about the beginning of the Christian era. Paracelsus held and deemed the German mystics followed him in the same thinking. that man in a strange way must earn…

…larger psychic atmosphere which is our larger home. And as surely as vitamins and food nourish the body, So according to Paracelsus, virtue, beauty, and truth are the necessary nourishments of the soul. The individual who has not learned to recognize and…

…living as a creature of soul, knowing the gods, good and evil. This concept forms a very large burden in the philosophy of Paracelsus, and therefore must be included in his cosmic ideas. Now the third part of man is the body. This body is derived…

…by impressing its own archetype upon form, or upon matter, thus building form. The various parts of the soul, according to Paracelsus, do not become involved simultaneously, but in the process of embryonic development, One phase or aspect of the soul after…

…heart contains seven distinct parts, or orifices. And in these, according to Hermes, the spirit first manifests its seven souls therefore Paracelsus likened the heart to a solar system with the sun in the center and the planets moving about through the…

…reaffirms itself in the three great structures of man. If, therefore, we study the brain, we shall discover in it, as Paracelsus points out, a complete organism again, a strange and mysterious cosmos connected to the body by the isthmus of the neck.…

…in one particular, namely that he has experienced the absolute dependence of all knowledge upon the mystery of inward light. The Paracelsus believed in the total being. that every creature to be understood must be placed correctly in a complete pattern, that…

…the total life of its kind is separated from the great source of its intuitional nutrition. Thus, we gain from Paracelsus this vital and important point that we come toward facts as we annihilate intervals. a particularly qualitative interval to recognize…

…meditation, a yogic power, which is resident in the soul, which holds these archetypes. The soul also is a compound. According to Paracelsus, it is a natural part. It is a compound, therefore, of compatible parts. The seven parts of the soul are the seven…

…the root being. Deception, that is the Paracelsian morality, the Paracelsian ethic. But our time is more than up. We must now leave Paracelsus and hope that each one of you will go on and be friendly with this grand old man. You have many enemies…

…to the sphere of effect at that phase which is not apparent and pertains to the sphere of causative or of essence. Thus when Paracelsus refers to gold, he does not refer to metallic gold as we know it, but to the spirit of gold, to the mysterious…

…state. And in this volatile state, and in this state alone, they can be truly united. And in substance and fact, as Paracelsus points out, in the volatile state all things move towards union, whereas in their substantial state they move toward disunity, or…

…formed in alchemy only because the seed of gold is in all things. Gold cannot be produced artificially where gold is absent. The Paracelsus points out that there is no place where gold is absent. In the same way, by any means or method within the sphere…

…the seeds of substances, elements, metals, principles, these seeds can be caused to grow by art. And according to Paracelsus, alchemy is art perfecting nature. that the alchemist becomes therefore the gardener, the servant, the handmaiden of nature. Assisting…

…which is self, and consciousness, which is self. Mercury becomes what is called the universal solvent. And this solvent, as Paracelsus describes, as the two-fold nature of the psychic self. This two-fold nature being composed of the intellectual and emotional…

…transformations take place. Regeneration, therefore, is an experiment performed within the bottle of the human astral body. which to Paracelsus is not the same as the emotional body of modern mysticism, but is a complete psychic envelope containing within…

…accomplished. And within his own composite nature is the final formula for the projection of the red lion, mysterious universal medicine. Paracelsus then tells us what this medicine is substantially. He tells us that this medicine is composed of the union of…

…and in their essences may be combined, thus being combined by the actual chemistry of the soul itself. Thus, according to Paracelsus, body is not rejected merely calcinated or destroyed body returns or is reabsorbed into soul as in the buddhist idea of…

…true in man is true everywhere else in nature, and anything which is true in nature is true also in man. Paracelsus points out, therefore, that life itself is indestructible, and therefore by this virtue or this token, absolute identification with life…

…to a psychic or invisible world, rather than to the temporal sphere in which we exist. On this same basis, then, Paracelsus speaks of the medicine of sympathy. The medicine of sympathy, which is this tremendous power of soul over matter, this mysterious…

…used burned ram horns for the treating of asthma, and gradually a very elaborate series of remedies arose. which, according to Paracelsus, were remembered only by their names or structures, but the real method or means of their efficacy was not understood.…

…most elements composed in the nature of man are in their proper quantity useful and in their privation or excess dangerous. Now, Paracelsus also noted that nature has a tendency to come to certain relief or help of the physician in cases of remedy.…

…from having any serious difficulty from excessive dosage. If, however, the medication is violent, then this may not be true. Paracelsus says that natural remedies persuade the body. Artificial remedies force the body. Where the body is healed by persuasion,…

…science. If such a creature could hypothetically be found in all its glory, we would have the perfect man. He would not, Paracelsus, would not have gone on at all with the assumption of Schopenhauer or Nietzsche's that the perfect man was the product of…

…in a normal and reasonable way, man can attain gradually to a state of security. It was because of this that Paracelsus thundered against the policies of his time, the institutions which influenced men, the fallacies of theology, and all these agencies by…

…with each other. They sort of get along. They have instinctive and intuitive recognition of common values. So in terms of Paracelsus, Sympathetic attraction is a kind of psychic gravity by which things of like nature experience the fact that by likeness…

…upon things in common, where antipathy is based upon things held not in common, or things held at variance. Sympathy, according to Paracelsus, is a magnetic force in which the greater mass attracts the lesser, just as in the case of the gravity pull of…

…appreciations sensibilities and sensitivities. Everything being thus vibratory, the sympathetic polarity must be understood and cultivated. Here, Paracelsus gives us a peculiar but vitally interesting moral or spiritual reason for integrity. He clearly indicates…

…relationship between man and God is expressed or manifested through the mystical experience. This is an experience of sympathy. So, Paracelsus tells us that no one can experience anything totally dissimilar to himself. That for which we have no sympathy can…

…which understanding of normalcy and normal relationships is supported and caused to grow. Recognizing, also, another law in nature, Paracelsus pointed out that the term death is an exceedingly abstract term. as signifying dissolution, or the total cessation of…

…with medicine as an ailment. It can be overcome through transmutation, as the base substances of any material can be changed. To Paracelsus, therefore, death was one of the common commodities of life. We handle the factor of death as we handle any other…

…horse under the cherry system would not cause better charity. Actually, so-called death was a setting up of a chemical procedure. Paracelsus pointed out that in the mystery of metals there could be no stone of the philosopher without death, that unless the…

…great service to plants that find their life in that which destroys us. All through the universe these sympathies exist. Our Paracelsus tells us that everything that is an entity, that everything that exists is either where it belongs or somewhere else. If…

…carry it, bring the plague. No flies and the plague would be incurable. This is one of those peculiar patterns so delighted the Paracelsus in mind. Therefore, to cure a disease, says Paracelsus, is not merely to get it out of the body of the sufferer,…

…plague would be incurable. This is one of those peculiar patterns so delighted the Paracelsus in mind. Therefore, to cure a disease, says Paracelsus, is not merely to get it out of the body of the sufferer, but to redeem it, to advance its evolution, to…

…for that individual to have it and enjoy it. Now this might sound like a case of spite, Well, it wasn't. Because Paracelsus observed that nearly all diseases being disastrous to man, man wasn't the thing that needed them. It had to be something else.…

…its own destiny advantage. If this procedure seems a little strange to you, it would. It has some interesting philosophical overtone. Paracelsus was not one of the physicians who tried out in hatred against disease. To him, disease was not an evil thing,…

…field. This brings us naturally, then, to the Paracelsian concept of the will as the instrument of divine magic. The Paracelsus has frequently been referred to as a magician. in a most depreciatory manner, indicating merely a superstitious person who presumed…

…most depreciatory manner, indicating merely a superstitious person who presumed or claimed to possess the power of conjuring. Actually, to Paracelsus, magic was nothing more or less than the product of the direction Wherever the will can be brought into…

…cannot act without its motivation. Yet there are many works of nature that can only be accomplished by will. And here is how Paracelsus explains it. We all know that a habit is the result of repetitious action. One incident will not create a habit or an…

…human body can be directly controlled, and that is through will. Now, this places a tremendous responsibility upon the physician, for as Paracelsus says, he must will only like God, or he will damage the situation seriously. On the other hand, it is no…

…onward only with good intentions. There is a complete science of the control of magnetic currents by the educated directing Paracelsus pointed out, however, that just as there are certain remedies which seem to help almost everything, that there are certain…

…degree prove therapeutic, or will cause a flow of energy from the physician to the patient which will be generally helpful. Paracelsus pointed out that a sincere a devout prayer for the recovery of the sick actually accomplishes such a direction of energy.…

…indication. that prayers devoutly bestowed with deep love and veneration, and with great humility of spirit, do produce results. Therefore, says Paracelsus, if the prayer specifies a certain spirit as needy, it means that the is to a degree influenced by the…

…safety. It is a condition. Six parents, receives comfort or consolation from the anxious child. These are instinctive things. Paracelsus points out that these ancient and instinctive processes are founded in partial knowledge of exact science. But whatever we…

…through this transmission of energy under will, certain changes of a beneficial nature are accomplished, There is a point that Paracelsus also makes, namely that the physician is not depleted. He is only depleted under one condition, namely that he forces…

…to their inward nature. Man perceives outward things by his own outward senses, and he perceives inward things by his inward senses. Thus, Paracelsus tells us that the heart has eyes as well as the body. The mind has ears. All of the internal parts of…

…shadow or reflection, arises in the invisible source of light in the solar system, which is the spiritual or original sun. Paracelsus, following the Neoplatonists and some other early mystics, was of the opinion that there were three suns in the solar…

…to the psychic sphere, and one spiritual. And these three sons bestowed the light of the world according to their own nature. As Paracelsus says, As the light of the physical sun warms and reveals the body, so the light of the psychic sun, or the astral…

…light, light energy. Now, we can carry this point one degree further, and we must. We learn, therefore, from him, from Paracelsus, that the universe in totality is suspended in an infinite extent of spiritual lifelike. that all things that have an existence…

…to their proximity to one of the three great centers of life, psychical material. Having thus a universe of total life, Paracelsus is confronted with one of the oldest dilemmas of the law. How does that which is eternally and inevitably unconditioned enter…

…or separate things they have no differences. Kepler brings this out in his astronomical theory, and it more or less comes to Paracelsus in the same way. For example, we have in the solar system a group of invariable factors, these factors being the…

…in the same way. For example, we have in the solar system a group of invariable factors, these factors being the planets. Now Paracelsus had a certain affinity for the idea of astrologia as distinctive from But we will in a moment try to explain his…

…to in his discussion of the Great Platonic Year as the seasons of fertility and sterility in nature. In this way, Paracelsus maintains the principle of essential good and at the same time permits one universe, one power, one nature, to assume various…

…is more abundant in certain energies at certain times and is deficient in these energies at certain other times and Paracelsus with the skill of observation pointed out that such seasonal circumstances are noted by animals Thus, for example, in certain…

…that it must prepare for a barren season, stores up its food in advance in order that it may not have deficiency. Paracelsus points out that nature in relation to man is not less provident than the squirrels, beavers, and birds. Therefore, that not only…

…the word anatomia, or anatomy, but he tells us that he is not referring to the structure of the human body. By anatomy, Paracelsus says he means the total constitution of man. And that anatomy, which does not include the study of the soul and the…

…through the body, the function of mind through the body, the function of consciousness in itself and through the faculty. By astronomia, Paracelsus tells us that he is not dealing primarily with the solar system as we know it, but that true astronomy is…

…reality and existence of which the solar system itself could not either exist or continue. By astrologia, in the same thinking, Paracelsus says he does not mean merely the interpretation of the effects of planets upon life. Rather, he means the psychology…

…he does not mean merely the interpretation of the effects of planets upon life. Rather, he means the psychology of universal energy. Paracelsus said he did not believe that any planet exercised a good or evil influence, but that in the compound of human…

…it, discovered that he had flamed, his ancestor came. he knew it because there was a mark upon his forehead. Paracelsus gives us a curious, rather quaint, and not entirely undelightful interpretation of this mark of Cain, which incidentally our learned…

…the body is diseased it is because some law has been broken, and therefore in some way the individual is a sinner. Paracelsus hastened to assure all his friends and himself that he did not expect perfection, nor was he going to condemn anyone who…

…of man's mind, some might do well, but with the assistance of his interference he will have Thus the importance, according to Paracelsus, of recognizing that what we call natural living is permitting the animals in the human body to obey the instincts of…

…to find it? Of course, if you have an old herbal, an old book of herbs long, you can identify some of them. The Paracelsus was not an identifier of known earth. He was a seeker after those things which had not been identified. He pointed out what…

…the human heart in shape. We have the toothwort, which resembles the human tooth. And by experimenting with these plants on earth, Paracelsus said that the infinite wisdom in bestowing its benediction and blessing has always given us a key and a clue. And…

…have what appears to be a visual experience of identification. Intuitively, man may see more than he can see with his eyes. Paracelsus advises the physician to look down and sit in the meadow, relax. With faith and prayer, without which no works are done,…

…which there is a plant in the field, for which there is not also an element hidden dark within the earth itself. And Paracelsus discovered some of these secrets while he was working far underground in the mines of the fugues. Here he learned things not…

…were burned, showed no gold. Therefore, there had to be some reason why the grape accepted gold, and another plant did not. Paracelsus declared that this was because of the sympathy of things. That the grape among the fruits of the vine held a…

…that they are constantly drawing their nutrition from the tremendous potential fullness of what we might even term space itself. Paracelsus agrees very largely with Hindu philosophy, for he declares that the most unsuspected source of all things is space.…

…that even the poison of the rattlesnake has use, if we know what to do with it. Thus, all so-called useless things, says Paracelsus, are merely things the uses for which are known. There is nothing new. Because nothing can exist except it be sustained by…

…Spirit. Thus, oil becomes a sublimity. Many things are contained most subtly and sensitively in their oils, or in their elixirs, as Paracelsus calls them, or in their estuaries, as the atta of roses, in which the greatest the energy of the road is held.…

…held. This is therefore adulterated many times in the making of perfumes. So the problem of nutrition was, according to Paracelsus, severalfold. He was not, however, convinced that the separation of the energy unit from its formal structure was entirely…

…from life, from the sun ray, from the air he breathes, or from pure cosmic space. The cosmic space motions of Paracelsus are probably the cosmic rays of today. But these rays, although they are constantly permeating, penetrating man, are not received or…

…yet that has to be done before this subject can be said to have been handled in a thoroughly Paracelsian manner. Thus, Paracelsus said, how are we going to get these rays and these catalyzing agents polarized in man who is suffering from some ailment…

…15th century is not bad thinking. And it tells us things that we should perhaps remember more than we do today. Now, Paracelsus has also been accused of being a magician. Because many of the cures and achievements that he wrought were considered a little…

…witness symbolically to a psychic disturbance or a spiritual disturbance of some kind in these energy fields. As a magician, Paracelsus is tempted to take pure substances. Substances carefully prepared. and apply them where the deficiencies existed. He did not…

…was to compound gold in itself. And to do this, it was necessary to capture within gold a group of magnetic formulas. Paracelsus did this by invoking the aid of planets. He used various planetary configurations at the time of melting and casting gold,…

…while in a mutable state, took upon itself specialized attributes that were not always present. Having prepared these formulas, Paracelsus then went a step further into what is commonly called today transcendental magic. He pointed out the Egyptian belief…

…In his own mind, that word took living quality and was interpreted as an idea. Defining all these elements together, Paracelsus fathoms talismans, gifted to all of the planetary and celestial bodies, ornamented with certain designs, and inscribed with certain…

…to condition this energy. to bring it into that kind of energy necessary to assist the patient with a particular ailment. Paracelsus did not believe in simply the good thought method. He believed in the scientific directing of a conscious formula, just…

…patient could and would respond, finding temporary assistance over a crisis or a critical situation. In this strange development of energy, Paracelsus pointed out that there were two very important factors that had to do with energy. One of these factors was…

…if through faith he no longer blocks the psychic field Tension and pressure become open and available to remedy of all kinds. Paracelsus said, when you take a medicine, the first duty of the medication, or the first need of the medication, is that it…

…magnetic field will be reduced. As most ailments begin, primarily in tension. that will help to remove tension is therapeutic. Paracelsus also tells us the importance of prayer. He tells us, scientifically speaking, that prayer produces very much the same…

…off from the positive vibration, thus leaves him incapable of responding to it, and therefore in a sickened or depleted state. Paracelsus then carries through the various fields of therapy with which he is primarily concerned. He points out that the complete…

…to return to its present or normal situation, for it is the prickling that accompanies the awaking of a sleeping arm or leg. Paracelsus observed that in the case of the amputation of a limb, that the etheric part of the limb remaining with the person…

…element, superior to the others, permeating the others, governing the others, and holding them in the compound which we call body. So, Paracelsus says that man coming from Adam as a body composed of these elements to which is added as a controlling and…

…body composed of these elements to which is added as a controlling and directing power the quintessence of the soul. Now, Paracelsus goes on to point out that we know these elements only through their phenomenal manifestations in our objective world. beneath…

…of fire remains and may be re-engendered whenever the circumstances appropriate to its appearance are re-animated. According to Paracelsus, therefore, these elements, in more than being simply elements in the constitution of man, are in actuality words.…

…Therefore, they may travel vast distances and be reinterpreted into sound or picture if the appropriate mechanism is available. Paracelsus there postulates another point. It says man potentially possesses the mechanism necessary for a further extension of his…

…comprehension. that nowhere in the universe is there actually a vacuum, and that the nearest thing to a vacuum, according to Paracelsus, is the head of a sophisticated human being, who, having lost his mind against the free distribution of energy, soon…

…into these worlds. Worlds of elemental substances. Worlds that, according to him, human beings have occasionally been able to contact. Paracelsus was convinced and expresses it in his own terms, that man, at least certain human beings, on a king, are…

…occurrences happen in sleep or in a so-called dream state, a state in which Objective faculties are temporarily suspended. Paracelsus joins most philosophers in recognizing that our comparative ignorance of the subjective is due to our hypnotic addiction to…

…it. Into the atmosphere. Outside. A vast world. Of fluid motions. a world in which the human principle is the solitary element. Paracelsus makes a very great point of the fact that the elements represent fields in which are unfolding forms of life that…

…life, but that the nature of these elements is such that this life is of one element, and one element only. Therefore, Paracelsus says that they differ from every other type of creature that man can know. Everything's visible to him. They differ from…

…soul, because they are not in-soul creatures. Man is a being composed of spirit, soul, and body. Elementaries, according to Paracelsus, consist of only one body, one substance. Their soul, their body, their life, all these elements are undifferentiated, are…

…are undifferentiated, are one substance. This means that a creature so constituted and possessing as the elemental does, according to Paracelsus, intellectually, But such creatures, as he expresses it, are amoral. That is, they have no moral sense. They are…

…of generations. They are subject to practically every pattern that we know, and they represent a gradual evolution within elemental fields. Paracelsus opines that perhaps it is in this way, and in this kind of greenhouse of the gods, that the first…

…this, and others, some simple creatures like the elementals, constitute the population of an invisible world moving in upon man, and Paracelsus was convinced that some day this invisible world would move in closer, and that man would discover that it would…

…Indians with that catchiness and with all the little people of the Irish and all these things. The elementary, according to Paracelsus, is an artificial creature created in the invisible world by man himself. So this presents us with a new psychological…

…an artificial creature created in the invisible world by man himself. So this presents us with a new psychological problem. According to Paracelsus, the most common form of the elementary is the intubus. Now, an intubus is a kind of demon. It is a demon…

…the ability to see words coming out of the human mind. And that these words appear as luminous forms or patterns. Paracelsus would say that's undoubtedly quite probable. Because man is forever created. And in the invisible world around him, he is creating…

…around him, he is creating constantly through thought and emotion activity. Thoughts are things, says the ancient adage. here Paracelsus would also agree, that thought gradually creates entities. That these entities, supplied and sustained by the flowing motion…

…and vitality of the person living upon it until it destroys it. We can see something in this philosophy which probably Paracelsus could never have seen. We observe today the tremendous unity in mental pathology. We observe how attitudes becoming more and…

…ancient legend, But man himself created monstrosities in his own psychic life which vampirized his faculties and did appear therewith. But Paracelsus went still further in his thinking. And he went so far as to declare that these vampire things, these intubi…

…of life with these creatures which man himself fashions. And in his problem of therapy, therefore, we'll come down for a moment to Paracelsus again as a scientist. We have touched on him a bit as a philosopher, and no one will question that his doctrine…

…goes into the rarefied atmosphere of theology. But we'll come down for a moment to the scientific problem. Having created a concept, Paracelsus went to work to try to prove whether or not it was true. The thought forms or emotion forms were with…

…would return, even though battered and shaken. and continue to derive whatever life they could from the previous owners. The Paracelsus discovered that these parasites could be transplanted to creatures that they did not hurt, and that thought and emotion…

…they did not even approach the physician when symptoms first appeared. They usually waited much too long, but the time Paracelsus or any other physician inherited the patient, the ailment was in an advanced state. looking over such incurable ailments as…

…in treating that cause, and that their cause was not purely physical. Certainly it could be aggravated by physical circumstances, and Paracelsus was very conscious of hygiene, diet, and the use of mineral baths, and things of that nature. But he was…

…can be well, that there is no other answer, and that sickness in the individual is due to some imbalance in himself. Now, Paracelsus himself was sick and so is everyone else. He knew this. He realized that under the conditions in which human beings live,…

…completely resist. nor can we protect ourselves against every subterfuge against our health which is practiced around us. But Paracelsus believes we could greatly minimize our vulnerability through the reintegration of our own nature, and that what we might…

…little, yet his mental-emotional habits can still pursue him unless he changes them. He can never escape from their consequences. Paracelsus, therefore, was a sort of minister of goodwill among men. He believed definitely in the importance of man establishing…

…there are persons by whose origin a unique or peculiar destiny is inevitable. These persons may not know this themselves, but Paracelsus pointed out that in legends that heroes or heroic beings are frequently born of the union of human and superhuman…

…been the son of a mortal woman and a salamander. What the facts behind this story is, we do not say again. But Paracelsus was convinced through his medical therapy and research that there was more than one kind of human being and that the plants that…

…these dimensions open to us they will not appear to be supernatural in any way there is nothing in the universe of Paracelsus with all his thinking that he would have acknowledged for a moment to be supernatural he declared there could not be anything…

…a complete diffusion. It cannot withdraw any area of itself and leave a vacuum. It is therefore possible only But man, as Paracelsus points out, is deprived of life because he destroys the areas or fields within himself by means of which life is…

…have the cause of the gradual rising of a particular ailment within what would otherwise be regarded as a healthy body. The Paracelsus tells us that energy moving in upon man is blocked in three levels. It is blocked mentally. It cannot be blocked…

…jealousy, envy, these emotional pressures create tension and lock the emotional agent. Wherever we lock the mental agent, according to Paracelsus, we lock the air content of the body. In other words, every emotional, every mental attitude affects We know this…

…content of the body. In other words, every emotional, every mental attitude affects We know this is more or less provable, but Paracelsus goes further with it. He points out that the whole process of respiration as we know it is far more complicated than…

…Constitution begin, and the individual passes into a state of depletion. Whenever these things happen, we have according to Paracelsus, the therapeutic introduction of elementals, because the elementals, in part of their function, have to do with the regulation…

…because the elementals, in part of their function, have to do with the regulation of the elements in the body. The Paracelsus points out that there are actually elementals functioning within the magnetic field of man, and that it is perfectly proper that…

…by worry alone. He can stop it by fear. He can stop it by any emotion that reduces the availability of natural currents. A Paracelsus would say he can stop it by cutting off the elemental energy by which the elemental being is able to create its own…

…marvelous and more wonderful than probably the most delicate experiments that man can make. And yet everywhere it reveals intelligence. Paracelsus did not believe that the bone itself was intelligent, but he believed that every living force or energy available…

…you could reason with electricity. Certain phases of it are responsive to intellectual selectivity. Energy is the same way, and Paracelsus believed that energy operated in the production of its miracles simply because it was a field of life, and of…

…through his participation in a total availability. Now modern man thinks of this availability as one substance differentiated in man. Paracelsus said no, that it is not merely one substance. It is essentially one principle, but it has already been highly…

…beings administer it just as we regard the hierarchs of ancient times as administering the solar power through the solar system. Thus, Paracelsus tells us that it is very good for us to live in a perpetual respect for invisible life. to know that it…

…On the other hand, we talk all the time and that does not prove that we are conscious. The world then, to Paracelsus, was this tremendous sphere of life with countless organizations moving. with man growing up in it as a composite dependent upon all…

…a highly speculative, highly combative, highly competitive series of relationships. Man can persuade life to do many things, said old Paracelsus, but can force life to do nothing. Therefore, the physician is the persuader. the one who seeks to arbitrate, who…

…their happiness their normalcy depending to a degree upon his and his upon them And by gradually assuming this position, Paracelsus believed that the individual developed a philosophy of health that was adequate and suitable for him. We will take up…

…a degree upon his and his upon them And by gradually assuming this position, Paracelsus believed that the individual developed a philosophy of health that was adequate and suitable for him. We will take up the next phase of Paracelsus' philosophy next week.

…Bastet von Hohenheim, No one cared to worry about it, so they finally decided to call him Paracelsus. Actually, the name Paracelsus means greater than Celsius. And whether this modest man bestowed it upon himself, or whether, as some suspect, his father…

…for her time. She was the superintendent of a hospital. The women were not generally superintendents of hospitals in 1490. Paracelsus was born the year before Columbus discovered America. Born in 1491. His brief and popular life terminated about his 51st…

…simple, too caustic, too sharp in his way and thinking. These were all points that were strongly against him. The writings of Paracelsus, like his public lectures, were given in swift German, in a kind of low German. What he insisted, however, was not…

…And several of the early editions of the Bible published in it were so bad that the original editors couldn't read the text. Paracelsus also pointed out that by mumbling Latin in a learned way, you can conceal a vast amount of ignorance. And he also…

…English with an introduction, a note, by Arthur Edward Waite. And the most handy available work on the general philosophy of Paracelsus is the work of Frantz Kahn, which is a summary of his doctrine planted rather strongly in the direction of theosophy.…

…of Frantz Kahn, which is a summary of his doctrine planted rather strongly in the direction of theosophy. Stillman's life of Paracelsus contains extracts from his work also. And there have been one or two recent works which are essentially digest, collecting…

…an early 17th century edition, but most later versions. Therefore, we may say that probably three-quarters of the writings of Paracelsus are not generally available in units today, and are only accessible in manuscript copies from students or specialists in…

…to it for centuries, almost as they might have made pilgrimage to the pride of Lourdes. And prayers at the tomb of Paracelsus are reported on two occasions as having prevented the plague from taking its community. What the truth is, we do not know.…

…was greatly admired and honored in the field of medicine. Now a person with his type of mind would naturally do what Paracelsus did. Instead of attempting to separate medicine and therapy in general, from the total body of knowledge, he sought to restore…

…description, which is, on the problem of natural and unnatural religion and philosophy. Now in the use of natural and unnatural, Paracelsus is giving us a statement which is essentially based upon the early Greek philosophy. Namely, that there is a nature…

…would study the great book of nature, writes Theophrastus, must travel the pages with his feet. This wise search for knowledge. Quaes Paracelsus perhaps at the top of the list of earnest and sincere men not afraid to change his entire philosophy the moment…

…the new platonic foundation to determine, if possible, what is the difference between natural religions and unnatural religion. According to Paracelsus, natural religion is the kind which we see around us and which is sustained forever by the evidence of law,…

…not in miracle, but in nature, in the complete and total observation and reflection upon the thing as it is, the fact. Paracelsus became quite a psychologist, and is one of the founding spirits in this field of research. that the relationship be recognized…

…sustain them so that they become parasites like creatures, attacking him, attacking themselves to him, and finally destroying him. Paracelsus pointed out that every unreason or irrational attitude of a human being, every destructive mood, every negative emotion,…

…emotion, could and would produce psychic parasites that would drain his natural resources and gradually destroy his mentality. To Paracelsus, apparently, these parasites were beings, false beings, homunculi, creatures created by man. Today we regard them not as…

…and unnatural philosophy. Natural philosophy is that which appears sometimes as the strange intelligence of the so-called unlearned. Paracelsus had a profound respect for the unlearned. that the individual who was lacking in academic strength was necessarily…

…stands with all his lore, a fool no wiser than before. And, having reached this recognition of his own following, he becomes receptive. Paracelsus was very strongly of the opinion that man was never going to be able to battle his way to security at the…

…the capacity, and he must possess with this capacity, first of all, religious insight. Now, natural religious insight, according to Paracelsus, began and was established in the simple acceptance of the divine will as it is manifested in the divine work.…

…because it exists. It is proven only because, through labor, through endurance, through patient observation, it is checked and rechecked. Paracelsus was also one of the first to point out the importance of under-medication on the ground that it is possible…

…be destructive to another. There should be a reason for this. It must be known and understood. And early in his researches, Paracelsus came upon a premise which undoubtedly has been fulfilled in the vitamin theory. He recognized the basis of all energy, as…

…separate living organisms capable of a degree of survival apart from the common body to which they were associated. From this theory, Paracelsus began to develop a support for his concept that all bodies in nature are compounds. That what we call a body…

…that he had within his own nature, miniature polarity for everything that existed outside of him and around him in the universe. Paracelsus was not much given to deception. Perhaps he was too much of a Pythagorean, for the members of this school did not…

…like the concept of the disfiguring of the body after death. But he was in the presence of physicians who were. And Paracelsus came to the conclusion that man was a complete, functioning miniature of the cosmos. That therefore, each of these units could…

…If we could understand the world, we would understand man. If we could truly understand man, we would understand the world. Now, Paracelsus early observed that in viewing both the world and man, We view only surfaces. All we know of the cosmos is that…

…in particulars, and all contemplation of particulars gives us an intuitive recognition of universals or generalities. Thus, Paracelsus attempted to reconcile the Platonic and Aristotelian approaches to knowledge. Now having this thought basically established, that…

…Now having this thought basically established, that we have here natural science, natural philosophy, natural theology. We, according to Paracelsus, would say that natural theology perhaps more completely revealed to the human body, and that in the functions of…

…of nature, but also suitable for the perfection of philosophy and religion. When in Constantinople, it is quite probable that Paracelsus was in contact with the Dervishes and other Eastern sects. It is quite also quite possible that through them, he…

…not have a kind of knowing in which man is totally deficient because of the involvement and complications of his structure. So Paracelsus gives us one general pattern. He tells us of a universe with a sun in the center, surrounded by planets. He gives…

…parallel to the great philosophic and theological conceptions of the ancients. So we find in man the same microcosm, according to Paracelsus, that we find in Flood and Meyer, the Rosicrucians of the following century. We find again the same being that we…

…time of the development of a psychological approach there to life. In the problem, therefore, of natural and unnatural thinking, Paracelsus came upon another important formula. based once more upon Neoplatonism. We can say, perhaps following the words of Lord…

…have medical significance or particular meaning in the field of therapy, inasmuch as they give us a new concept of health Paracelsus says health is not freedom from disease. Health is freedom from the cause of disease. Because you can get well at…

…identical with the principle of which it stands. It is a likeness, a similitude. It is representation of some kind. Now, Paracelsus proposed that in the light of ancient sympathy, that if the image was constructed with magical skills, it became sufficiently…

…it. The growth of man depends upon the creation of bridges between his own attainments and the universal sources of survival. Paracelsus was therefore of the opinion that what we might term physical immortality is not inconceivable. He did not believe it…

…he gains not necessarily an intellectual concept, but a factual living of a regime that is itself suitable to this. Paracelsus, therefore, points out the misfortune of the rich were the only group well enough fixed financially to destroy themselves by…

…vicissitudes of the ancient world. only to build cities and die of the accumulation of his own filth. Thus, to restore this, Paracelsus believed that you cannot restore man to the primitive. You cannot take away from him what he has. You cannot make him…

…behind every prescription. They're behind every time he takes a pulse or makes a diagnosis. He does not know what it is. Paracelsus says that is why there are born physicians and others who may become great doctors but will never be. Simply because of…

…medicine. something that is now totally ignored. The pills, the shots, and the poultices are now regarded as the instrument. Paracelsus has not known. The greatest physician is the one who carries healing in himself and releases it archetypally into the…

…matter how tremendous it may appear. And learning which is away from archetype is always for death. Thus the Paracelsus gives us a material universe supported upon a magnificent framework of universal principles manifesting as radiant blossoms or archetypes.…

…discovered not only the visible pattern, but the laws and the archetypes. And is therefore able to cooperate. In alchemy, Paracelsus defines this as art perfecting nature for art is man's skill consciously assisting the manifestation of the archetype it is…

…he draws the energy. And the same as you draw the thing of God dwelling in the house built according to his law, Paracelsus says the physician writes the prescriptions. And if the physician knows what he is doing, is truly wise and truly enlightened, he…

…think about it and be prepared to go a little further with it a week from this evening in connection with the discussion of Paracelsus and the relating material we do have material about him in some of our own books which may interest you one of course…

…of the Paracelsian concept through the Neoplatonic line. And we think you will find those books helpful in orienting the philosophy of Paracelsus if you are concerned with it. If you are wishing to consult early authors, I believe we have here in our…

…you are wishing to consult early authors, I believe we have here in our library nearly every text in English available on Paracelsus. And we also have the complete edition of his original work in the first complete printed edition in German, done way back…