…of this influence. Now these are his two basic propositions or hypotheses. He follows, as we have said, the concept of Paracelsus and the Eros. That what we call the atmosphere, or the intervals between planets and suns on luminaries, that this entire…

…noted in the rings of trees, we can also realize that this phenomena does have certain terrestrial significance. Mesmer then went with Paracelsus to the theory that as all forms in nature exist within this that all these forms likewise have a magnetism of…

…less sustained by magnetic energy, and that many very subtle things are actually magnetized in one way or another. Paracelsus pointed out the magnetism of geometric form, patterns, and solids. And other experimenters have found the magnetic emanations related…

…that their regular occurrence may cause the gradual depletion of the energy available to certain functions of the human body. Paracelsus was convinced that the diseases of man constitute a formula. this formula means that there is a relationship, an exact…

…has a kind of existence in magnetism as an artificially created creature. Of such creatures were the elementaries of Paracelsus, as distinguished from elementals. Elementals were to him the nature spirit. Elementaries were beings created by the intemperances of…

…time he died at Trafalgar, Lady Hamilton fell in a swoon in England, declaring that Nelson was dead. This sympathy, according to Paracelsus, was due to the possibility of the projection of the mind in the field of magnetism, and would simply be a very…

…energy is in this material, and that this energy is still associated with the person to whom that object once belonged, by what Paracelsus calls sympathy. This is the same type of thing that is recorded in the case of the amputated leg. which was buried…

…energy, of and that the person could use this energy in various ways to affect his life under certain conditions. Also, as Paracelsus pointed out, that the energy of one person could be communicated temporarily to another person in the form of a sort of…

…magnetism may be part of the entire cohesive principle by which matter is brought into the organization we call form. Paracelsus suspected strongly that form itself is a manifestation of magnetic processes, and that the failure of magnetism in holding…

…apparently nourish the body, it fails to sustain the magnetic fields, which are important to the total function of man. Now, Paracelsus was of the opinion that the primary function of minerals in the body is to hold and direct magnetism. Therefore, that…

…the struggle of the function is not equal to the opposition of circumstance, and gradually the body sickens. Thus, the therapy, as Paracelsus pointed it out, in your field of energy, lies in reaching behind or the physical situation as it exists, and to…

…outgrown such old beliefs. In time, however, private practitioners stepped into the field. They began to contemplate the matter much as Paracelsus had done, with a new dedication. namely a dedication to the need of the sick. But this should come before all…

…tends to explain logically the story of the relationship or the sympathetic tie between an image and a divine power. Paracelsus also gave quite a consideration of this subject in his study of sympathetic medicine for the healing of sickness according…

…into the general situation and pageantry of things in the study of this same problem we then pass on to other considerations from Paracelsus we learn for example that it was the belief of the enlightened of old that every solar system is fashioned in a…

…that there is a magnetic field of the planet this is something else that we are just beginning to understand although Paracelsus worked with it centuries ago the earth has its own psychic atmosphere it has a magnetism factor this magnetism factor provides…

…This is the way science began. Sometimes we wish it had remained so sensitive to the intuitive mysteries of life. So Paracelsus pointed out that there is within man Another universe, a universe of powers, a universe of principles. But within the human…

…than it has ever been actually researched in the West. More and more, however, we are coming to the Chinese point of view. Paracelsus had come to it centuries ago. And this point of view is that the heartbeat is again not merely a mechanical process. It…

…according to the babylonians chaldeans greeks romans practically every civilized people have always been associated with the planets. Paracelsus makes this very definitely an assertion. Namely, that the organs surrounding the heart resemble the planets surrounding…

…thing that is growing by this process of redemption, of transmutation, and of the restoring of principles. And it is not visible, but Paracelsus and many others made pictures of it. it was this fact that in the heart of man there is not only this…

…of nature and the final textbook, which as Lord Bacon pointed, is written in the stars and in the elements and in the earth. Paracelsus also tells us that there are three great books of which man can learn the mysteries of life. The first is the book…

…upon another type of problem. A very interesting one. Probably best represented, perhaps, in the writings of Theophrastus of Hohenheim, Paracelsus. We find that the ancients all believed that these various elements had governments of their own. There was not…

…We see the tremendous power of all the different shades and sub-shades that mark individual degrees of growth. We also, as Paracelsus pointed out, become face-to-face with another fact, that everything that exists in nature is good for something for man. We…

…despotism which prevents us from the expression of our own integrity. But in the deeper is something that cannot die. As Paracelsus pointed out, the elixir of transmutation within each person is the power to transmute every mistake he makes into soul power.…

…light, like the very substance of nature itself, is a secret of secrets that transcends even the deepest of our thinking. Light, as Paracelsus pointed out, is of more than one kind. There is a light which shines upon the body. There is a light by means…

…the types or kinds of light have to be considered and the alchemist did believe definitely that there was light within man Paracelsus says that all the constellations are to be found within the psychic field of the human body therefore that man is indeed…

…of it and gives it some thought. The greatest transmutations imaginable, far more extraordinary than the universal medicine of Paracelsus or Theophrastus, The wonderful and strange experiments that defy all human thinking are taking place constantly in the…

…And we likewise deeply appreciate his industry in making available the two large folio volumes on the alchemical writings of Paracelsus. We remember him also as the translator of the French transcendentalist, Eliphas Levy. We also know that Mr. Waite was…

…or air becomes symbolical of Venus, and so up this entire ladder, but those are the only four elements that we have. So, Paracelsus gives us the fifth or magical element, the element of the elixir of life, Azoth, which corresponds to the fourth orbit of…

…It has broken these patterns. It has broken the forms which were being built by habit mechanisms of a negative nature. Paracelsus and many of the other early physicians were convinced that these forms arising within the Kamarupa are the real and constant…

…of scars. But in the ether the original scar is not changed, because this substance does not change. The old esotericists, including Paracelsus, pointed out that the ether is not subject to injury in very many ways, but that it is subject to injury by…

…elements. Therefore, all of these are bridged to him by means of his etheric field. It is because of his etheric field, as Paracelsus pointed out, that there is a universe in man, that there are solar systems within him, that he is a solar system.…

…now that symptoms spread, and we know that the whole body becomes a symbolic field four diagnoses. For this reason, when Paracelsus discovered, for example, that the spleen, the great gateway of etheric energy, was being impaired, he placed a gold ring on…

…of mystical experience. Mystical experience gradually bestowed upon this conviction dream and vision likenesses. Individuals saw these spirits. Paracelsus describes in detail all the nature spirits and the gnomes and the undines and the salamanders that Ancients…

…a kind or of a type sanctified under a circumstance or condition has natural and peculiar virtues because of similitude. Paracelsus developed this very intensely in his theory of sympathies and antipodes. When, therefore, the conqueror Xerxes entered the great…

…this elaborate creation myth which can move inside of them and become a symbol of his entire coordinating existence. According to Paracelsus, who was very wise in these things also, man is a constellation consisting of twelve orders of energy. That these…

…planetary, and solar energies are brought into the body. Here we have a very strange astronomy within man himself, as Paracelsus tells us. Now this magnetic field operating inwardly was corresponding in old times to the Ptolemaic concept of the universe,…

…that man himself more or less comes into existence because man represents the creature which contains both the creator and the creation as Paracelsus said man is bound to the element by his body to the planet by his soul to the stars by his spirit so…

…only contact was this note, and the intensity of the individual. Thus we may have seen that some things which Paracelsus called an aphelion, or energy, containing something susceptible of impression, were certainly communicating There are many cases in which…

…be recorded within the consciousness of the person? Do these stones carry some kind of life energy with them? We go back to Paracelsus, who had many opinions on many subjects. And while we regard these views today rather dimly, we cannot say that we have…

…have ever actually disproved them. We have simply dropped them as being inconsistent with the general body of our thinking. Paracelsus was of the basic opinion that minerals and stones and metals were actually living things. and that therefore a beautifully…

…the eye of the beholder, and may have some form of a subtle reaction upon the life or consciousness of the person. Paracelsus might be inclined to assume that it was the energy that created this consequence. The modern thinker would be more likely to…

…not be unreasonable, as April was the symbol of the vernal equinox and the annual birth of the sun. The sun, according to Paracelsus, had an affinity for the diamond. And the diamond was therefore the sun of the gem kingdom. It was the center around…

…we have no way of estimating except through the old esoteric doctrines that have descended to us from minds such as Paracelsus and Pythagoras the ancients definitely believed that the individual had a field of energy around him which could and did affect…

…of nature as they come to us in the human body. We have always recognized the human body as a miniature of the world. Paracelsus describes it as one of the three great books of creation. Anything that we seek for in the functions of the living body we…

…understand why the alchemists searching for the mystery of the transmutation of metals and elements finally came to the opinion that Paracelsus held that the digestive system of the human body is the perfect example of the transmutation of metals all these…

…sit down trying to study this a little bit why don't we just also look back a little read something that Paracelsus wrote read something of Neoplatonism monasticism read something of Buddhism H.G. Wells said that Buddhism was probably the most important…

…world. There have been a series of revelations that have been very difficult to define or to explain. We find the prophecies of Paracelsus, a sober physician who also had a vision of the shape of things to come. All over the world we have these…

…you do not use it to the common good it will be taken from you So Elias the artist is referred to by Paracelsus, he is referred to by many others, as the mysterious wandering adept, the mysterious teacher of the rosy cross, the strange, mysterious…

…to the planets. They correspond definitely with Ptolemy's system. And they are the basis of the Rosicrucian system as expounded by Paracelsus and the Rosicrucian flood and Maya and others. So this morning we want to study a little bit about this problem…

…a fifth element called Azoth. This is symbolized in an old engraving as a substance concealed in the hilt of the sword of Paracelsus. And very often in pictures of him he is shown with this sword and this inscription. So this represents the fifth element…

…finally into what the Buddhists call the Buddhic level this is the level of the stone in the handle of the sword of Paracelsus Azov Azov is the symbol of the stone and the symbol of the stone is the transmutation of the base elements until perfection…

…deity, as a proper and appropriate emblem, symbol, or embodiment, a personification of a spiritual energy. This concept certainly affected Paracelsus. who in turn affected most of the rise of medieval science and made much of the groundwork for modern…

…the physician really had it rather well to know, because he was next only to the bishop, and his word was lost. As Paracelsus pointed out a little later, however, although his word was highly valued, it is not certain that he said very much, at least…

…of the mystics, both Christian and non-Christian, have descended into Europe through the great teachings of men like Bamey and Paracelsus and Lully and other great leaders a mystical thought a a deeper meaning that the real problem is the transmutation…

…contributions to make. They liked to think of the four elements still and of the fifth element, the mysterious engulf of Paracelsus. And they began to think now of atomic co-mixture in terms of chemical formula. They discovered that you could take chemicals…

…as a direct instrument of knowing as a direct instrument by means of which he could control the operating forces of nature Paracelsus declared in the 16th century that such power existed that he had witnessed it, that it was not completely lost. And we…

…and we are made aware of it, or it is visible to us because of the light of the sun shining upon it. Paracelsus declared emphatically that the interior life of man is also subject to energies and laws which are not obvious materially, and that the…

…metaphysically. He is punished by a series of invisible ailments that are as dangerous to him as physical ailments are to the body. Paracelsus pointed out that every ailment known to the body has its equivalent in the psychic field of man, and that it is…

…is the rising of the sun of the soul or the messianic sun in man If, therefore, we remember the remarks made by Paracelsus, which we have discussed in a previous series, he said there were three sons, one that lighted the body, one that lighted the…

…the darkness is the night sun of Apuleius who saw it blazing beneath his feet when he entered the sanctuary of prosopony Paracelsus tells us that there are three suns in the solar system that every solar system has actually three sun structures or solar…

…of these patterns arises from the constitution of the human being himself. Therefore within the psychic field of man, as Paracelsus so broadly hints, there must be a concept according to the number 12, the mysterious dodecahedron, or twelve-faced symmetrical…

…that we are in today and make out of this neurotic instinct the great in creative agents, the magical agents of liberation, as Paracelsus describes it. For imagination is the thing that makes it possible for man to dream that he is better than he is,…

…chemistry which was definitely a sacred art. In practice, what is the difference in these two systems? I think probably Paracelsus summarized this rather well when he pointed out that the alchemical transmutation was impossible unless the alchemist himself was…

…result, however, of the motion of Arabic knowledge into Europe, the alchemical secrets passed to keeping of persons like Paracelsus and Fumaroth and Valentin, and these persons gained their knowledge of the alchemical processes largely from Constantinople and…

…first of all by gathering his materials from pure sources as much as he can. Most of the great experiments of Paracelsus and many others were possible because of the pure high atmosphere of the Alps. Here materials were uncontaminated. Here things grew…

…from a divided substance to a united essence this type of thinking was the problem of almost all of ancient philosophy. Paracelsus and others warned the alchemists not to center their attention upon the transmutation of metals. But, as von Welling tells us…

…is possible in all the kingdoms of life. And it is possible of all the substances which make up the created universe. So Paracelsus did not deny the transmutation of metals, but warned that the acceptance of this as the primary factor in alchemy was a…

…through to the end, and the adept achieves what is called a cognitive projection. This is a small amount of an incredibly powerful agent. Paracelsus is said to have carried a small amount of this agent in the hilt of his sword, as it was named for him…

…which is near of considerable concern to students of the subject. One of the main names associated with early alchemy, while Paracelsus was long gone, this great Swiss physician, tells us that he was initiated into the mysteries of the spiritual art of…

…and that is the production of the spirits of levels and the spirit of gold which can be captured in oil. Theophrastus Paracelsus explained that in certain parts of Switzerland, where there was gold in the soil, Grape vines, sending their fennels and roots…

…They can be neutralized by other rates of vibration, representing their intimities. This was the basis of the sympathetic medicine of Paracelsus, who treated the ailments of Mars with the power of Venus, and the ailments of Saturn with the power of Jupiter.…