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PARACELSUS
THE LIFE OF
PHILIPPUS THEOPHRASTUS BOMBAST
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KNOWN BY THE NAME OF
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PREFACE :-.
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power to see.
This power of spiritual perception, potentially con-
tained in every man, but developed in few, is almost
unknown to the guardians of science in our modern
civilisation, because learning is often separated from
wisdom, and the calculating intellect seeking for worms
in the dark caverns of the earth cannot see the genius
modern Freemasonry.
But it is a great error to suppose that the secrets of
spirit.
Some of their doctrines refer to morals and ethics,
others are of a purely scientific character; but both
n. EXPLANATIONS OF TERMS 29
III. COSMOLOGY 44
IV. ANTHROPOLOGY 63
V. PNEUMATOLOGY 103
VII. MEDICINE
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APPENDIX 287
INDEX 305
PARACELSUS
L THE LIFE OF PARACELSUS
THE dawn of the sixteenth century called into existence
a new era of thought, and was the beginning of the most
stupendous and important accomplishments of those
times the reformation of the Church. The world
awoke again from its long sleep in mental torpitude
during the Middle Ages, and shaking off the incubus of
Papal suppression, it breathed freely once more. As the
shadows of night fly at the approach of the day, so clerical
fanaticism, superstition, and bigotry began to fade away,
because Luther, in the name of the Supreme Power of
the Universe, spoke again the Divine command: "Let
"
there be light ! The sun of truth began again to rise
in the East, and although his light may afterwards have
been obscured by the mists and vapours rising from fields
on which dogmas and superstitions were undergoing the
process of putrefaction, nevertheless it was penetrating
enough to extend its beneficial influence over the subse-
quent hours of that day. It shone through the murky
atmosphere of sectarian bigotry, and sent its rays into
doubting minds. Free thought and free investigation,
having shaken off the chains with which they were bound
down for centuries by the enemies of religious liberty,
broke the door of their dungeon, and rose again to
heaven to drink from the fountain of truth. Free in-
quiry took the place of blind credulity; reason rose vic-
torious out of its struggle with blind belief in clerical
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4 PARACELSUS
sciences led him to enter the laboratory of the rich
(Philosophia Occulta).
During the time of the Reformation, when the mental
atmosphere was in a state of great commotion, when
everybody contended either for Luther or for the Pope,
Paracelsus stood above the quarrelling parties, and rejected
"
all sectarianism, for he said : Among all sects there is
none which possesses intellectually the true religion. We
must read the Bible more with our heart than with our
brains, until at some future time the true religion will
come into the world." His sympathies, however, went
with the liberal Protestants, and he expressed himself in
" The enemies
regard to the action of Luther as follows :
ii.
" the is disproved by the fact that
cap. xxii.), regprt
a man who is a drunkard could not have
^Iutton>and
been in possession of such divine gifts."
Paracelsus has been accused of vanity and boasting,
and the fact is, that he was proud of the attributes or ac-
complishments manifested in him ; but he did not glorify
his ownperson, only the spirit that exalted his soul
Seeing himself surrounded by ignorance, misjudged and
misrepresented, but conscious of his own strength, he
asserted his rights. He maintained that the value of the
truths he taught would be appreciated in due time, and his
prophecy has proved to be true. It was this consciousness
of his superior power that inspired him to exclaim :
"I
know that the monarchy (of mind) will belong to me, that
16 PARACELSUS
mine will be the honour. I do not praise myself, but
Nature praises me, for I am born of Nature and follow
1
her. She knows me and I know her/'
His language is not that of a boaster, but rather that
of a general who knows that he will be victorious, when
he writes: "After me, ye, Avicenna, Galenus, Rhases,
Montagnana, and others You after me, not I after yon,
!
"
Remember that God has put a mark upon us, consisting
in our shortcomings and diseases, to show to us that we
have nothing to pride ourselves about, and that nothing
comes within the reach of our full and perfect under-
standing ; that we are far from knowing absolute truth,
and that our own knowledge and power amount to very
little indeed."
Personal vanity and ostentation were not the elements
to be found in the character of Paracelsus -they were
the customs of the physicians of that age ; but it is a
daily occurring fact, that he who exposes and denounces
the faults of others appears to the superficial observer as
1 3
J4br. Paramirum," Preface. "Libr. Paragranum," Preface.
THE LIFE OF PARACELSUS 17
(Paragranum : Preface).
He says " The knowledge to which we are entitled is
:
illuminated my way/
Great stress was laid by his accusers upon the fact
that he wrote the greater part of his books and taught
his doctrines in the German language, and not, as was
then customary, in Latin. But this was one of his most
important acts ; because in so doing he produced a refor-
mation in science similar to the one that Luther produced
in the Church. He rejected the time-honoured use of the
Latin language, because he believed that "the truth could
as well be expressed in the language of the country in
which he lived. This daring act was the beginning of
free thought in science, and the old belief in authorities
complete works.
I WORKS ON MEDICINE.
1. Paramirura de Quinque Entibus Omnium Morborum. (Auto-
graph of Paracelsus )
2. Opus Paramirum Secundum. (Autograph.)
3. Liber de Generatione Hominis.
4 Liber Paragranum. (Autograph.)
5. Liber Paragranum Secundum. (Autograph.)
6. Chronica des Landes Kaernthen.
7. Defensiones und Verantwortung wegen etlicher Verunglimp-
fung seiner Misgoenner.
1
Paramirum of the Five Causes of Disease. 2 Second Book, Parami-
s
runo. Book of the Generation of Man. 4 Paragranum. 6 Paragranum,
Second Book. 6 History of the Country of Kaernthen. 7 Defence and
Answer respecting some Misrepresentations made by his Enemies.
WRITINGS OF PARACELSUS
8. Labyrintbus medicorum errantium.
9. Das Buch vom Tartaro, das 1st vom Ursprung des Sands und
Steins.
10. Epistel der Landschaft Kaerntben an Theopbrastum.
1 1. De viribus membrorum.
12. De primis tribus essentiis.
8 9 The Book
The Labyrinth of theuWandering Physician. of Tartarus
44. De Benovatione.
[Autographs.
45. De Vita longa. (German.) *
46. De Vita longa. (Latin.)
47. Some fragments in German. \
II. ALCHEMY.
51. De Tinctura Physica. }
52. Liber Vexationum. \-Maniiscripts.
5 3. Thesaurus Alchemistarum. J
De Cementis.
54.
55. Cementum super Venerem et Marte./
^^
\Autoarar)hs
19
Explanation of the First Sections of Hippocrates' Aphorisms.
*
How
to Let Blood. 41 Diagnostics from Urine and Pulse. 42 Pharmaceutics.
43
The Book of Archidoxes. ** Renewal. 45
Long Life. 4e Ditto.
47
Various Fragments. **
Preparations of the Second Book.
* How
to make Spirit of Vitriol. w The Essential Nature of Things. * "Cura-
tive Tincture." M
Vexations. Alchemical Treasures. M Cements.
65
A Cement for Venus and Mars. w Manual of the Philosopher's Stone,
87
How to Extract of all Metals their Mercury, Sulphur, and Crocus.
WRITINGS OF PARACELSUS 27
59.
60. Herbarius.
61. Von den
\Avtoararik*
fuenf natuerlichen DingenJ p ^
62. Zwei Tractate vom Terpenthin und
Honig.1
63. Vom Ebenholz, von Bruechen und Prae- \MS. of Montonus.
paration der Mumie. J
70. Fragmenta.
71. Fragmenta aliquod de re Herbaria. J
Plants. 61
On the Five Natural Things. w Two
Tracts on Turpentine
and Honey. w Ebony- Wood, Ruptures, Preparation of the Mumia.
64 The Virtues of Plants. w The Books of Beginnings. w Mineral
^ The Baths of Pfeffers. ** Gradations and Compositions.
Springs.
69
Remarks about Gradations. 70 Fragments. 71 Fragments treating of
7a 74
Plants. Letters to the Athenians. Anatomy. Doctrine of the
Products and Fruits of the Four Elements. 75 On the Generation of
Man. 76 Meteors. 77 More about Meteors. re Third Book on Meteors.
79 *
The Generation of Metals. Natural (Thermal) Springs.
28 PARACELSUS
V. MAGIC.
100. )
DaaBuohAzothseudelignoVitae. Mamtsorits
101. Arcnidoxes Magicae (seven books), r .
>
102. Auslegung von 30 magischen Figuren. (Autograph.)
103. Prognostication zukuenftiger Geschichten auf 24 Jahre.
(Print.)
81
The Divine Works and Secrets of Nature. Sorcerers and Witches
ffi
solid visible, material and earthly gold. The two former are, so
to say, the spirit and soul of the latter,and by employing the
spiritual powers of the soul we may induce changes in them
that may become visible in the objective state. Certain external
manipulations may assist the powers of the soul in their work ;
but without the possession of the latter the former will be
perfectly useless. Alchemical processes can therefore only be
successfully undertaken by one who is an Alchemist by birth or
by education. Everything being of a threefold nature, there is
a threefold aspect of Alchemy. In its higher aspect it teaches
the regeneration of the spiritual man, the purification of the
mind, thought, and will, the ennobling of all the faculties of the
soul. In its lowest aspect it deals with physical substances, and
as it leaves the realm of the living soul, and steps down to
hard matter, it ends in the science of modern chemistry of the
present day.
ALGOL. The substance of a body free from all earthly matter ; its
ethereal or astral form.
ALTJECH. The pure spiritual body (the Atma).
ANATOMY. The knowledge of the parts of which a thing
is com-
posed ; not merely of its physical organs and limbs, but of its
elements and p inciples. Thus the knowledge of the sevenfold con-
i
ception of Devachan.
AQUASTOR. A
being createdby the power of the imagination .,
light
ASTROLOGY. The science of the "stars ;" i.e., of the mental states
in the mind. It is not to be confounded with modern physical
astronomy.
A STRUM. This term is frequently used by Paracelsus, and means
the same as Astral Light, or the special sphere of mind belong-
ing to each individual, giving to each thing its own specific
qualities, constituting, so to say, its world.
AVITCHI. An Eastern term. Astate of ideal spiritual wickedness ;
B
BERYLLUS. A magic mirror or crystal
in whose Astral aura appa-
ritions may be seen by the clairvoyant Bwillistica ars: the
art of divining by means of seeing in crystals, magic mirror,
flowing water, looking into cups, into stones, &c., all of which
methods are calculated to render the mind passive, and thereby
to enable it to receive the impressions that the Astral light may
make upon the mental sphere of the individual by detracting
;
the attention from external and sensual things, the inner man
is made conscious and receptive for its subjective impressions.
BRUTA. Astral force manifested in animals; second sight in
animal a ; power of fl.TiiTnq.1fl to discover instinctively poisonous
or curative medicines, &c.
D
DERSES. An occult exhalation of the earth, by means of which
plants are enabled to grow. Carbonic acid gases, &c., are its
vehicles.
DEVACHAN. An Eastern term. A
subjective state of happiness of
the higher principles of the soul after the death of the body.
(See ANYODEI.) It corresponds to the idea of Heaven, where
each individual monad lives in a world which it has created by
its own thoughts, and where the products of its own spiritual
ideation appear substantial and objective to it.
DIVTNATIO. The act of foreseeing future events by means of the
soul's own light ; prophecy.
DIVERTEILUM. The matrix of the elements, from which the latter
1
generated.
DTJRDALES. Substantial but invisible beings, residing in trees
'(Dryades) ;
elemental spirits of nature.
E
EDELPHXTS. One who divines from the elements of the air, earth,
water, or fire.
ELEOTRUM MAGIOCTM. A
composition of seven metals, compounded
according to certain rules and planetary influences ; a prepara-
tion of great magic power, of which magic rings, mirrors, and
many other things may be made.
ELEMEOTALS. Spirits of Nature. Substantial but (for us) invisible
beings of an ethereal nature, living in the elements of air, water,
earth, or fire. They have no immortal spirits, but they are made
of the substance of the soul, and are of various grades of intelli-
1
For instance, each metal has its elemental y matrix in which it grows.
Mines of gold, silver, &c., become exhausted, and after centuries (or
millenniums) they may be found to yield again a rich supply ; in the
same way the soil of a country, having become infertile from exhaustion,
will after a time of rest become fertile again. In both cases u decom-
position and a development of lower elements into higher ones takes
place.
EXPLANATIONS OF TERMS 35
1
This division takes place in consequence of the opposite attraction of
matter and spirit. After it is accomplished, the astral body will be dis-
solved into its elements, and the spirit enter into the spiritual state. &*
A, P SINNBTT :
36 PARACELSUS
3. Dreams that are
influences ;
caused by spiritual agency. Only
the latter are worthy of great consideration, although the former
may occasionally indicate important changes in the planes to
which they belong for instance, a dream of a nail being driven
;
F
FIRMAMENT. The soulsphere of the Macrocosmos,
respectively
that of the Microcosmos.
FLAGAE. Spirits knowing the secrets of man ; familiar spirits ;
G
GAMATHEI, or GAMAHEU. Stones with magic characters and pic-
tures, possessing powers received from astral influences. They
may be made by art or in a natural manner. Amulets, charms.
GIGANTES. Elementals having the human iorm, but of superhuman
size. They live like men, and are mortal, though invisible
under ordinary circumstances.
GNOMI, PYGMAEL, CUBITALI. Little Elementals having the human
form and the power to extend their form. They live in the
element of the earth, in the interior of the earth's surface, in
houses and dwellings constructed by themselves.
power ; causation.
ILEOH SUPEENATURALE. The union of the superior and inferior
astral influences.
ILEOH MAGNUM. The specific healing power of medicine,
EXPLANATIONS OF TERMS 37
M
MAGIO. Wisdom the science and art of consciously employing
;
may obtain the latter by entering into a union with man. (The
fourth principle uniting with the fifth.) The human shape is
their true form ; their animal forms are assumed. They are also
called Undines.
1
See "Magic, White and Black; or, The Science of Finite and In
1
Hnite Life,' by Dr. F. Hartmann,
EXPLANATIONS OF TERMS 39
1
A case is cited in which a plastic operation was performed on a man's
nose by transplanting on it a piece of skin taken from another person.
The artificial nose answered its purpose for a long time, until the person
from whom the piece of skin was taken died, when the nose is said to
have rotted. Cases are also known in which persons have felt a pain
caused by the pressure of a stone upon a recently amputated leg that,
40 PARACELSUS
MTSTERIUM MAGNUM. Original matter ; the matter of all things j
the ultimate essence ; essentiality of the inner nature ; specific
quality of the semi-material part of things. All forms come
originally from the Mystenum magnum, and all return to it in
the end ; the Parabrahman of the Vedantins.
MYSTICISM AND MYSTIC KNOWLEDGE Mystical is that which is
mysterious and occult, and therefore not generally known.
Mysticism generally refers to a morbid craving for gratifying
a curiosity to know all about spooks, witchcraft, black magic,
&c.; true mystic knowledge is soul -knowledge, and is based
upon the development of the power of the soul to distinguish
between that which is real, eternal and permanent, and that
which is illusive, temporal, and subject to change.
N
NECROCOMICA. Visions of future events in the air.
NECROMANTIA. Sorcery ; witchcraft the art of employing the un-
;
without their knowledge, had been buried, and the pain instantly ceased
when the stone was removed. This sympathy existing- between man's
consciousness and his body is the cause that the astral form of a dead
"
person may keenly feel any injury inflicted upon his corpse. The " spirit
of a suicide may feel the effects of a post-mortem examination as severe!}
as if he had been cut up while alive.
EXPLANATIONS OF TERMS 41
B
BUPA. AnEastern term. Form. Kama-rupa, form caused by
desire; Mayavi->upa, illusive form caused by the will and
imagination of a person who consciously projects his own astral
reflection as that of any other form.
S
SAGANI.Elementals or spirits of Nature.
SAHMANDRL Salamanders ; spirits living in the element of fire.
they awake.
SPIRIT. This term is used very indiscriminately, a fact that
may
cause great confusion. In its true meaning spirit is a unity, a
one living universal power, the source of all life ; but the word
spirit and spirits is also used very often to signify invisible, but
nevertheless substantial things forms, shapes, and essences,
eleinentals and elementaries, shades, ghosts, apparition", angels,
and devils.
SPIRITISM. The dealing with spooks, ghosts, elementals, &a, and
believing them to be the immortal spirits of departed human
beings.
SPIRITUALISM. The science of that which is spiritual, the contrary
of " materialism
"
the understanding of religious truths, based
;
upon spirituality.
SPIEITUS VITAB. The vital force a principle taken from the ele-
;
T
THKOSOPHIA. Supreme wisdom, acquired by practical experience,
by which it is eminently distinguished from merely speculative
philosophy. Theosophy, or divine self-knowledge, is therefore
not to be confounded with theosophical doctrines that are the
result of theosophical knowledge to say nothing about the idle
;
dreams and vagaiies which are often dealt out under the name
"
of theosophy," and which have brought this term into general
disrepute.
TRARAMES. An invisible power that may communicate with man
through sounds, voices, ringings of bells, noises, &c.
EXPLANATIONS OF TERMS 43
u
QMBRATILES. Shadows ; astral appearances becoming visible and
sometimes tangible (modern spiritistic form manifestations); 1
the Scin-lecca, or wraith, or the German Doppelgaenger of a
person. They may become visible by attracting ethereal material
elements from the body of a medium, or any other person in
whom there is little cohesion of his lower elements in conse-
quence of some disease, or on account of inherited peculiarities
of his organisation ; or they may attract them from the surround-
ing atmosphere. Their life is borrowed from the medium, and
if it were prevented to return to the medium, the latter would
be paralysed or die. (See EVESTRUM.)
1
Ruland says about them " Umbratilia transnmtata stint in hominem
:
being not only the Father of the Son, but of all created
1
things that ever were, that are, or will be ; the Yliaster,
the primordial and original Cause of all existence. This
Power is, was, and will be the eternal Constructor of the
" "
world, the Carpenter of the universe, the Sculptor of
forms. Creation took place through the inherent Will of
that Creative Power being expressed in the "
Word " 2 or
Mat and efficient thought), in the same manner
(active
8
as if a house would come into existence by a breath.
The cause of the beginning of creation was in the eternal
inherent activity of the immaterial Essence, and all things
were invisibly or potentially contained in the First Cause,
or God.
When creation took place the Yliaster divided itself;
it, so to say, melted and dissolved, and developed out of
itself the Ideos or Chaos (Mysterium magnum, Iliados,
Limbus major, or Primordial Matter). This Primordial
Essence is of a monistic nature, and manifests itself not
only as vital activity, a spiritual force, an invisible, in-
comprehensible, and indescribable power; but also as
vital matter, of which the substance of living beings
4
consists. In the Limbus or Ideos of primordial matter,
1
From tiX-rj, forest, and astro,, stars or worlds.
8
The Xcryoy.
8 the breath (out-breathing) of Brahma.
By
4 This means that Life is the cause of matter and force. Force and
matter are originally identical 5 they are only two different modes of one
and the same cause or substance which is called Life, and which is itself
an attribute or function of the supreme cause of all existence. Modern
44
COSMOLOGY 45
is contained.
It is described by the ancients as the
Empedocles, and it was Aristotle who spoke first of the form in potentia
before it could appear in actu the former being called by him "the
privation of matter." (Note by
H. P. Blavatsky.)
46 PARACELSUS
The little Limbus has all the qualifications of the great
1
This doctrine, preached 300 years ago, is identical with the one that
has revolutionised modern thought after having been put into a new
shape
and elaborated by Darwin ; and is still more elaborated by the Indian
Kapila, in the Sankhya philosophy. (Note by H. P. Blavatsky.)
*
Everything, whether it may manifest itsejf as matter or as force, is
essentially
a trinity.
COSMOLOGY 47
Nature recalls to memory the old frroirav and the WILTVOM fuat ffvppta.
tween the human constitution and the constitution of the starry world,
including all terrestrial things, and this philosophy is almost identical
with that of Plato, which speaks of the formation of all things in the
inner world according to eternal patterns existing in the realm of the pure
Ideal.
48 PARACELSUS
to its new surroundings. "Two factors are discernible
in each thing its body (form) and its Activity (qualities).
belongs.
9 The Astral body (Linga-sharira) of minerals, plants, and animals.
8 Astral protoplasm.
4
Perhaps this may serve as a clue to explain the action of homoeopathic
medicines.
" "
See Appendix : Palangenesis of Plants.
P
50 PARACELSUS
exercise will extend as far as the power manifested through him will reach.
A man will become an incarnation of good or evil according to the degree
in which the good or evil existing in the Universe becomes manifested
through him. But as no one can become a Christ by merely speculating
upon the doctrines of Christ without practising them, so nobody can come
52 PARACELSUS
The science which deals with the comparison of the
Microcosm and Macrocosm for the purpose of elucidating
the nature of the two (which are in reality one), and to
bring to an understanding the rational principle governing
their activity, is called by Paracelsus, Astronomia, and this
term is not to be confounded with modern physical
Astronomy, or the science of the revolutions of the suns
and planets in cosmic space, neither does it refer to the
mathematical astrological science of the sixteenth century.
The Astronomy of Paracelsus means wisdom, or a direct
recognition of the truth, caused by a just appreciation
and comprehension of the relationship existing between
the Macrocosmos and the Microcosmos, "whereby the
nature of man becomes known through an understanding
of the upper sphere of the great world, as well as by
both have the same origin and the same life ; for the
one primordial power has become differentiated in each
separate form, and its originally homogeneous action has
become modified by the special qualities that have been
"
acquired by the forms in which it manifests itself. As
the sky with its stars and constellations is nothing
separate from the All but includes the All, so is the
'
'
firmament of Man not separate from Man ; and as
the Universal Mind is not ruled by any external being,
likewise the firmament in Man (his individual sphere of
mind) not subject to the rule of any creature, but is an
is
l
independent and powerful whole."
The practical application of Astronomia (mental
science) is called Magic, a science which by investigat-
self, and the idea of there being two minds is only an illusion ; the two
are one.
1
It would be difficult to find many practitioners of medicine possessed
of genuine powers of true spiritual perception ; but it is a
universally re-
cognised fact that a physician without intuition (common sense) will not
be very successful, even if he knew all medical books by heart. We
should
be guided by wisdom but not by opinions. The opinions of others
may
serve us, but we should not be subservient to them.
2
Von Eckartshausen describes this inner sense as follows : " It is the
centre of all senses, or the inner faculty of man, whereby he is able to feel
the impressions produced by the exterior senses. It is the formative
imagination of man, whereby the various impressions that bave been re-
ceived through the outer senses are identified, and brought into the inner
field of consciousness. It is the faculty
through which the spirit interprets
the language of Nature to the soul. It changes
bodily sensations into
spiritual perceptions, and passing impressions into lasting images. All the
senses of man originate in one sense, which is sensation."
COSMOLOGY 55
1
Eckartshausen has made such a herbarium, : he gives the names of
medical plants and the names of the planets with which they are sympa-
thetically connected.
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PARACELSUS
as far as its influence, just as the sphere of a rose extends
as far as its odour. The character builds the form, and
the form expresses the character.
But this harmony existing between the form and the
character is furthermore remarkable in certain other
conditions and qualities, which are often of more import-
" If the
ance to a physician than the external shapes.
physician understands the anatomy of medicines and
the anatomy of diseases, he will find that a concordance
exists between the two. There is not only a general
relationship existing between the Macrocosm and the
Microcosm, but a separate and intimate interrelation
and interaction exist between their separate parts, each
part of the great organism acting upon the corresponding
part of the small organism in the same sense as the
various organs of the human body are intimately con-
nected and influencing each other, and manifesting a
sympathy with each other that may continue to exist
even after such organs have been separated from the
trunk." There is a great sympathy existing between
the stomach and the brain, between the mammae and
1
the uterus, between the lungs and the heart. There
is, furthermore, a great sympathy existing between the
1
Dr. J. R. Buchanan, in his "Therapeutic Sarcognomy," makes prac-
tical use of this sympathetic relationship
existing between the various
parts of the human body.
COSMOLOGY 59
organs if the plant and the organ are related to the same
"star/' Certain plants, therefore, act as antidotes in
certain diseases, in thesame manner as fire will destroy
allthings that have not the power to resist it. The
neutralisation, destruction, or removal of any specific
elements producing disease, the change of an unhealthy
and abnormal action of the vital currents into a normal
and healthy state, constitutes the basis of the therapeutic
system of Paracelsus. His object was to re-establish in
the diseased organism the necessary equilibrium, and to
restore the lost vitality, by attracting the vital principles
from living objects and powers. Remedies containing
the required quality of that principle in the greatest
quantity were most apt to replace such lost powers and
1
to restore health.
The organisms that is to say, the material forms
of invisible principles take their origin from the soul
of the world, symbolised as " water."
2
This doctrine of
Paracelsus is therefore the same as the ancient doctrine
of Thales, and as the old Brahminical doctrine according
to which the world came into existence from an egg
-
(allegorically speaking) laid in water (the soul) by Brahm
(Wisdom). He
says that by the decomposition of that
" "
essence a mucilage is formed, containing the germs of
life, out of which, by generatio aeguwoca, first the lower
and afterwards the higher organisms are formed.
We see, therefore, that the doctrine of Paracelsus bears
a great resemblance one advocated by the greatest
to the
modern philosophers, such as Haeckel and Darwin ; with
this difference, however, that Paracelsus looks upon the
which his soul was born, and animals are the mirrors of
man. Whatever animal elements exist in the world
exist in the soul of man, and therefore the character
of one man may resemble that of a fox, a dog, a
snake, a parrot, &c. Man need not, therefore, be surprised
that animals have animal instincts that are so much like
his own ; it might rather be surprising for the animals
to see that their son (animal man) resembles them so
respect. A
chestnut-tree bears chestnuts, and from each
of its fruits can grow nothing else but a chestnut-tree ;
but the mixture of seeds is the cause that a son may be
very unlike his father. The seed (tincture) from the
brain of the father and that from the brain of the
mother make only one brain in the child, but that
tincture among the two which is the strongest will pre-
dominate and characterise the child."
Man receives his spirit and body not from his father
and mother, but from God and from nature, acting
through the instrumentality of his parents. His soul
and body are formed in his mother, but do not originate
in her. The three substances or elements which go to
make up the constitution of man are universal ;
man is
1 It taught that primordial man also had within himself the power
is
during his life does not become wise and good and
spiritually enlightened the divine ray will, at the death
of the person, return again to the source from whence it
came ; but that individual's personality 8 will only remain
as an impression in the astral light. There are two
kinds of intelligence in man the higher and the lower
intelligence. It is only the human (superhuman) intelli-
gence that can combine and unite itself with the spirit.
The lower or animal intellect, however clever it may be,
and however much learning it may possess, will be lost,
because it is not spiritual. It is the spirit or life alone
1
This Spirit is the same spiritual ray that has overshadowed man in
his previous incarnation and afterwards become withdrawn into the divine
essence, from which it issues again. It is, therefore, not a new Spirit, but
the same that incarnated before.
a
This is not to be understood as if some astral form in the human
shape were waiting to crawl into the body of the child, but that the spiritual
element gradually develops and becomes active in the child, in proportion
as the human instrument through which it desires to act enables it to
manifest that activity. An incarnation generally becomes
complete only
when the child has attained its seventh year.
8
There is a difference between individuality and personality ; person-
ality being a changeable mask which the individual ray produces,
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each planet, each sun, each world, has its peculiar charac-
teristics, and sends out its beneficial or its destructive
1
This is not to be understood as if the astral influences were creating
the divine soul of man. Man's spirit is from God ; his astral qualities are
developed by the astral influences, and his elementary (physical) body grows
out of the elements by which it is surrounded.
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the earth, and forms tissues, muscles, and bones, and be-
comes visible and tangible to other similarly constituted
1
beings as the material or animal body of man.
Man may therefore be looked upon as a twofold being
a visible and an invisible man (or as having a material
and a spiritual aspect), linked together by an astral soul.
"The form of a corporeal thing is one thing, and that
which produces the form is another thing ; the form of
a thing arises from the form of the mystery (character).
If a builder wants to build a house, the form of the
house exists in his mind before he executes the building,
even if it is seen by no one except by the builder him-
self" (De Podagris, II.). The visible man consists of
such originally invisible elements as have become visible
in his body ;
the invisibleman consists of feelings and
thoughts whose origin is in the Macrocosm, and their
1
Those anatomists, physiologists, and other scientists who claim to
know all about the constitution of man, because
they have studied the
organisation, of his physical body, and deny the existence of a soul and
spirit, know only a part and iu fact the most unimportant part of the
constitution of man,
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to say that the paradisaical Man (the Karana sharita) is still male anc
female m one ; but man, having ceased to be " the Lord," and become i
servant to the animal kingdom in him, has ceased to recognise the true
m
woman in him, his heavenly bride, and seeks for the woman that whicl
is external to him. Therefore man cannot enter into his original state o
70 PARACELSUS
never had been any in existence, nevertheless the children
of Adam and Eve would be born and have their particular
unity and purity except by means of the celestial marriage (within his
soul) such as takes place during the process of spiritual regeneration.
(See Jacob Bo eh me.)
1
What else can this "22ns proprietatis" mean but the human monad
reincarnating and being in possession
itself, of all the tastes, inclinations,
talents, and temperament acquired during its former existences as an
individual being ?
ANTHROPOLOGY 71
Aboriginal spiritual Man (male and female in one) has been created
1
by the will of God being active within divine wisdom ; but the woman
"
was made ont of a " rib (a power) of man. Therefore man and woman
are not equals, except as far as their animal constitution goes. "The
matrix from which man originated was the whole world (the Ivnibus] ; but
woman came out of the nunt/nx of man. Thus "m*"1 made unto himself a
matrix, the woman, who is now to him as much as a whole world, and the
spirit of the Lord is within her, informing and fructifying her. No one
has seen it ; but nevertheless it is in the matrix of woman. Therefore
they ought not be used for whoredom; for the spirit is in them, coming
"
from the Lord and returning to Him (Paramirum, iv.).
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the lower elements. This seinen, however, is not the
"
Woman, however, being nearer to Nature, furnishes
the soil in which the seed of man finds the conditions
throngh the Devackanio state, finally enters, and from which it is again
attracted into new incarnations.
1 " Thus the matrix attracts the seed of both
persons, mixed with the
sperm; and afterwards it expels the sperm, but retains the seed. Thus
the seed comes into the matrix" (Gebaerung).
" The
matrix," however, does not mean merely the womb of a woman ;
the whole body of the woman is a mother, a "matrix" (De Morbor.
Matric.).
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dial fluid, and as the Spirit of God in the beginning of
creation moved npon the surface of the waters (the soul)
likewise the human spirit, being diffused through the
whole of man's organism, moves upon the (seminal) fluid,
out of which the human form is developed. That Spirit
of G-od is the vivifying and spiritualising element in the
1
It might be objected, that if this were true, a man having lost a leg
could beget only one-legged children ; but such a superficial reasoning
would be caused by a misunderstanding of the true nature of man. The
invisible man is the essential man, the physical body only the outward
expression. If the physical body loses a limb, it does not follow that the
soul-body loses it likewise ; but if there is a congenital malformation, such
as supernumerary fingers or toes, they may be reproduced in the child ;
because nature has a tendency to acquire habits and to repeat them.
ANTHROPOLOGY 75
1
Numerous cases are known
in which persons of great learning have
become simpletons in their old age
; others, where such persons, in conse-
quence of a shoit sickness, lost all their memory, and had to learn to read
again, beginning with the ABC.
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having been divorced from him and cast out from her
true home within his heart; but, on the other hand,
she is man's best friend and redeemer for man, having
;
1 "
As there is a love between animals so that they long to dwell and
cohabit together as males and females, so there is such an animal love
among men and women, which they have inherited from the animals.
It is a deadly love, which cannot be carried higher, and belongs merely
to the animal nature of man. It springs from animal reason, and as
animals love and hate each other, so does animal man. Dogs envy and
bite each other, and in so far as men envy and fight each other they
are the descendants of dogs. Thus one man is a fox, another a wolf,
another a bear, &c. Each one has certain animal elements in him ; and
if he allows them to grow in him, and identifies himself with them,
he is then fully that with which he is identified"
(Dt PundamentQ
Sapientice).
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and your resistance to the will of God will be your
"
eternal death (De Homunculis).
to the marriage obligations, Paracelsus says :
In regard
" If a woman leaves her
husband, she is then not free
from him nor he from her for a marriage union having
;
1
This goes to account for cases of vampirism, when the elementary of
a dead person is still attracted to the
object of its affections and obsesses
him or her (Incubi and Succubi "Spirit-husbands and "Spirit-brides").
:
2
It is not the flesh and bones of a man which form attachments and
make and break promises, but the internal, carnally minded man ; and
thisman will be bound by his attachments and promises long after the
house in which he has lived (his body) will have ceased to exist. In
regard to this subject, Paracelsus regards it as dangerous to give further
details,
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remained faithful to truth, his Manes would not now be buried in the
abyss of hell, from whence he wrote me a letter. Such is the fate of all
"
quacks 1
(Paragranum, Preface).
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soul which has no spiritual power to resisfc ! Therefore,
such conjurers do not deal with the spirits of the dead,
*
but with the powers of evil and the fathers of lies."
The Elementals are also the beings which may pro-
duce so-called "physical manifestations," cause the ap-
pearance and disappearance of objects, throw stones, &c.
"
In a fragment entitled " De Sagis et Barum Operibus
(On Witches and their Arts), cap. 3, he says: "In
regard to such things, you ought to know that they are
natural, and that no one can justly say otherwise but
that Nature produces them, because, if, for instance, a
blooming rose is brought in the midst of winter into a
country where there are no roses, an ordinary man will
think that such a thing took place in contravention to
Nature's laws but the Magus (the wise), who knows by
;
dealing with the sidereal bodies of the dead. Such practices do not
deserve the name Spiritualism, but ought to be looked upon as Spiritism,
and when the laws upon which our modern Spiritualism and Spiritism are
based are known, it will be easy enough to make a distinction. Spirit-
ualism means a dealing with spiritual intelligences ; Spiritism, a dealing
with unintelligent or semi-intelligent invisible forms. A spiritualist
enters into the sphere of a spirit ; that is to say, he enters en rapport
with a certain mind, and writes or speaks in the spirit of the latter,
making himself a medium through which the intelligence of the latter
can act, and by which means he may obtain great truths. The spiritist
permits an invisible entity to enter bodily into his own physical form and
submits his body to the will of the invisible stranger.
8 The fact that such material
objects are occasionally brought by
ANTHROPOLOGY 87
1
The Evestrum appears to be identical with the Linga febariram, or
Astral body of the Eastern occultists. The Trarames is the power which
sylum, where he was kept for over a year. He suddenly became well
nd went home but afterward he heard that his "ghost" was still haunt-
;
ig the cell which he had occupied in the asylum, and that it was there
avmg, overthrowing the furniture, &c. He became curious to s*e his
wn " ghost," and in spite of all the warnings of bis friends, he went back
:>that cell, saw his "ghost," and was again observed by it, so that he
led insane.
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1
lective activity of the universe. The Evestra prophetica
proceed directly from the Turbo, magnet, the Evestra
obwribrata come into existence at the time when the
forms to which they belong appear. The Evestra pro-
phetica* are the harbingers of great events that may
concern the well-being of the world. If some such
1 The
writings of Paracelsus, such as have been preserved, in regard to
the description of the Astral world, are exceedingly mixed up, and written
in a style which renders their meaning almost incomprehensible.
9 This means that it is not advisable to
try to develop astral sight or
to deal with the inhabitants of the astral plane as long as we have not
the power to rise above that plane. When our true spiritual powers
become active in us, we shall also be able to see all that Is below that
state of existence, and incur no danger from it.
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dreams without discrimination, but always use his reason
to distinguish the true from the false. "But, on the
whole, there may be more reliance put into dreams than
in the revelations received by the art of Necromancy;
because the latter are usually false and deceptive, and
although the Elementals, using the astral bodies of the
dead on such occasions as masks, will give correct
answers to questions, and often confirm their assertions
with oaths, nevertheless no implicit confidence or reliance
can be put into what they may say, because they do not
wish to speak the truth, nor are they able to speak it."
" The
patriarchs, prophets, and saints preferred, there-
fore, visions and dreams to any other mode of divination.
Balaam was so well versed in the art of calling forth
When the bodies cease their labour, the spirits (in man)
begin their work. When the body of man rests, his
spirit begins to become active ; and when the spirit rests,
the body resumes its work. Therefore is the waking of
the body the sleep of the spirit, and the spirit's sleep
a waking for the body. They will not sleep or operate to-
"
gether ; one acts, while the other reposes (Philosoph., v.).
"
But dreams will be pure or impure, wise or foolish,
rational or irrational, according to the position which
man occupies in his relation to the light of Nature.
Prophetic sights are caused by the circumstance that
man has a sidereal body, related to the substance of the
Universal Mind, and the former confabulates with the
latter whenever the attention of the sidereal body is not,
needed by the requirements o the physical body. That
is to say, all that takes place in the outer world is mir-
the body can neither instruct nor seduce the spirit. The body eats and
drinks, but the nourishment of the spirit is faith. The body perishes,
the spirit is eternal. The body is subdued by the spirit, but not the
spirit by the body. The body is dark, the spirit light and transparent.
The body is subject to disease ; the spirit remains well. Material things
are dark to the body, but the spirit sees through everything. The body
(mind) speculates ; the flpirit (the will) acts. The body is Mumia, the
spirit is lalsam. The body belongs to death, the spirit to life. The body
is of the earth ; the spirit from heaven and God"
(Ph& Tract., iv,).
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DEATH
The word "Death." implies two meanings: I. Cessa-
tion of the activity of Life ; 2. Annihilation of Form.
Form is an illusion, and has no existence independent of
Life 5
it is only an expression of life, and not productive
of it. The form cannot cease to live, because it never
lived before, and the death of a form is only the cessation
of the eternal power of life in one form of manifestation
of its activity preceding its manifestation in some other
form. But Life itself cannot die or be annihilated,
because it is not born of a form. It is an eternal power,
that has always existed and always will exist. The
annihilation of a particle of life would be a loss to the
Universe that could not be replaced. Life is a function
1
of God, and will always exist as long as God is.
Before we can expect to die, we must first come to
life. Life cannot cease to be active in a form as long as
it has not become active therein. There are two kinds
of life in man the spiritual and the natural life. If the
natural life ceases to be active in a man, the man dies, and
he will then be conscious only of the life of his spirit;
but if that life has not become active in him during
his natural not become so by means of his
life, it will
death. No man
can become immortal by dying ;
mortal
he must have gained (become conscious of) eternal life
during his terrestrial existence before he can expect to
" What is
retain that life after the death of his body.
death? It is that which takes the life away from us.
It is the separation of the immortal from the mortal part.
It is also that which awakens us and returns to us that
"
which it has taken away
(Paramirum, ii.).
" an embodiment of certain principles or
Each form is
1
T&e seventh principle.
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could become wise; if there were no art, there would
be no artists. If the principles from which men and
animals derive their qualities did not exist, there could
be no men or animals in whom such qualities are made
manifest. These principles (forms of will) remain,
although the forms in which they have been manifested
for the time being decay. If a wise man dies, his
wisdom still continues to be, and may be communicated
"
to another person (De Fund. Sap.).
If a mill suddenly comes to a stop, it may be from two
laboratory of Nature.
Each form has a certain period during which it may
exist as a form, and the length of this period is predeter-
mined by the number which is a constituent factor in
the organisation of form, and which springs from life
itself, because life is a conscious power, and does nothing
at random, but everything according to its own inherent
law; and ifthe form should be prematurely destroyed,
life will nevertheless be active in the astral soul of the
1
Premature deaths from crime, suicide, and accidents cause their
victims to become earth-bound spirits, until the time of their natural
dissolution arrives.
* #F. Hartmann, "Premature Burial," Ijondon, 1896,
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1
Spirit-communications from suicides go to confirm this fact.
9
The vehicle of life (the astral body).
8 The Eastern esoteric doctrine teaches the same : The astral
form, or
Caballiy of suicides, or of one who died an unnatural premature death,
cannot immediately be dissolved, but will linger and wander in the
earth's atmosphere (Kama-loca) for the period that was allotted to its
body's life by natural law. The astral bodies (spirits, so called) of suicides
are those who appear nine times out of ten in spiritual stances, when they
will assume any celebrated name, or even the appearance of certain well-
known persons, whose images are well impressed in the aura around those
present. They are the most dangerous of all the Elementaries.
"Key to Theosophy."
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1
Jacob Boehme says: "Death is a breaking tip of the three king-
doms in man. It is the only means by which the spirit is enabled to
enter into another state and to become manifest in another form. When
the spirit dies relatively to its selfhood (personality) and its self-will
becomes broken in death, then out of that death grows another will,
not according to that temporal will, but according to the eternal will "
1
Boehme says : "When the soul has passed through death, it is then
in the essence of God. It remains with the works which it has produced
here, and in this state it will behold the majesty of God and see the angels
face to face. In the unfathomable world where the soul is, there is no end
or object which that son! would have to attain. Where the carrion is,
there will the eagles assemble." (All that the soul desires will come to it.)
Forty Questions, xari. 3.
2 Boehme "
The majority of souls depart from their terrestrial
says :
forms without the body of Christ (divine love), but being connected there-
with only by a small thread." Such souls, having but little spirituality,
will not exist in such glorious bliss as those whose spirituality has been
unfolded upon the earth and who loved God above all.
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separation of their higher and lower principles takes
place. Up
to that time they possess their astral bodies.
Such bodies are invisible to ns, but they are visible to
1
them, and have sensation and perceptive faculties, and
they perform in their thoughts that which they have
been in the habit of performing during life, and believe
that they are performing it physically. They still remain
in the earth sphere, and Paracelsus calls them Caballi,
Lemure$9 &c. They are still in full possession of their
earthly desires and passions: they attempt to satisfy
them, and are instinctively attracted to persons in whom
they find corresponding desires and passions, and to such
places where they may hope to satisfy them, by entering
into sympathy with such persons (mediums), and they are
therefore often inclined to instigate such mediumistic
persons to the commission of crimes and immoralities;
neither can they avoid doing so, because, by losing their
physical bodies, they have lost the necessary amount of
energy and will-power to exercise self-control and to
employ their reasoning faculties. They often haunt the
2
places where they used to spend their time during life,
thus attempting to find relief from their burning thirst
after the gratification of their desires. Wherever their
thoughts attract them, there they will go. If they have
committed some crime, they will be bound by repentance
to that place where it was perpetrated ; if they have a
treasure buried, care for their money will hold them
there; hatred, or desire for revenge, will tie them to
1
Sensation an attribute of life. If life resides in the astral body, he
is
sympathetically with the dead physical body, it may even feel any injury
inflicted upon the latter. The physical body, if it is inanimate, has no
sensation ; the latter belongs to the inner man. Wherever the centre of
consciousness is established, there is sensation.
3
Books might be filled with reliable accounts of obsessions, of haunted
houses, and instances in which such ghosts have been seen are exceedingly
numerous. Some persons, that may not be able to see them, may feel
them instinctively, or even physically, like a cold wind, or like a current
of electricity passing through the body (see " Borderland ").
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1
their enemies; passion turns them into vampires, and
connects them with the object of their passion, provided
that there are some elements in these objects which will
attract them ; becanse the astral body of an evil person
cannot influence the mind of a pure person, neither during
life nor after death, unless they are mutually connected
2
by some similarity in their psychic organisations.
" Under certain
circumstances, such human entities
will become visible or manifest their presence in some
manner. They may appear in bodily shape, or remain
invisible and produce sounds and noises such as knocks,
laughing, whistling, sneezing, howling, groaning, sigh-
ing, walking, trampling, throwing stones, and moving
articles of furniture or other objects, and all this may
be done by them for the purpose of calling the attention
of the living, so that they will obtain an opportunity to
enter into communication with them." 8
But not all the appearances of supermundane or sub-
mundane visitors are caused by the apparitions of the
ghosts or astral bodies of suicides or victims of accidents,
nor by the astral corpses and the Evestra of the dead ;
but there are other invisible entities sometimes haunting
i Chinamen and Hindus have been known to kill themselves for the
purpose of revenge, so that their souk may cling to their enemies and
trouble their minds or drive them to suicide. It is also well proven that wan
are often followed by numerous suicides occurring in the victorious army.
3 Such a case of
vampirism is personally known to me. A young man
killed himself on account of his passion for a married lady. The latter
loved him, but did not encourage his advances on account of her matri-
monial obligations. After his death his astral form became attracted to
her, and as she was of a mediumistic temperament, he found the necessary
conditions to become partly materialised and trouble her every night. It
required a long-continued effort until she finally became rid of the In-
cubus. If our practitioners of medicine were better acquainted with
9'
occult laws, many "mysterious cases that come under their observation
might become clear to them, and they would obtain a deeper insight into
some causes of mania, hysteria, hallucination, &c.
Fragment, "De Animabus Mortuorum." A great part of this frag-
8
ment has been lost. All such spirits are the products of imagination and
will. If a person has an evil imagination he creates a corresponding
form in his mind, and if he infuses that form with hia will he has then
created a " spirit,' which will attract similar influences.
1
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the houses of mortals, and becoming occasionally visible
and tangible to the physical senses, if the conditions
necessary for such a purpose exist.
" One of these classes is made
up of beings called
1
phantasmata.' These ghost-like beings are 'nocturnal
spirits/ having- reasoSSag, capacities" similar to Jbhpse of r
1
Paracelsus recommends the wearing of red corals as a remedy against
melancholy. They are said to be ruled by the influence of the sun, while
those of brown colour are under the influence of the moon. The red ones
are disagreeable not only to Phantasmata, but also to Monsters, Incubi,
Snccubi, and other evil spirits ; but the brown, corals are agreeable to and
attract them. I know of some cases of melancholy, depression of mind,
the source of all good with all our heart, mind, and
desire, we may be sure never to fall into the power of
evil; but priestly ceremonies the sprinkling of water,
the burning of incense, and the singing of incantations
are the inventions of clerical vanity, and they therefore
take their origin from the source of all evil. Ceremonies
have been instituted originally to give an external form
to an internal act; but where the internal power to
perform such acts does not exist, a ceremony will be of
no avail except to attract such spirits as may love to
mock at our foolishness " (PMosophia Occuito).
Another class consists of the Incubi and Succubi, of
which rabbinical traditions speak in an allegorical manner
as having been created by the spilling of the seed of
Adam (the animal man) while engaged with Lilith, his
first wife (meaning a morbid imagination). Paracelsus
says in his book, "De
Origine Morborum Invisibilium/'
" l
lib. iii
:
Imagination is the cause of Incubi and Suc-
cubi and fluidic Larvae. The Incubi are male and the
Succubi female beings. They are the outgrowths of an
intense and lewd imagination of men or women, and after
they take form they are carried away. They are formed of
the sperma found in the imagination of those who commit
the unnatural sin of Onan in thought and desire. Coming
as it does from the "imagination alone, it is no true
itmeans the power of the mind to form into a substantial image the in-
fluences which are actually present.
2
It is here not the question of merely visible and tangible things, but
of the products of the mind, which are also substantial, and which may
become visible and tangible under certain conditions.
" The
invisible body as well as the terrestrial body act each in its own
way. That which the visible body performs is done with its hands ; the
inner man works by means of his imagination and will The works of
"
the former appear to us real ; those of the latter like shadows (Mori,
, iii.)."
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If sperma does
planted into the proper soil it will rot.
not come into the proper matrix it will not produce any-
thing good, but something useless. Therefore the Incubi
and Succubi grown out of corrupted seed, without the
natural order of things, are evil and useless ; and Thomas
of Aquinas has made an error by mistaking such a use-
lessthing for a complete one."
"
This sperma, coming from the imagination, is born
in Amor Hereos. This means a kind of love in which
a man may imagine a woman, or a woman a man, to
perform the connubial act with the image created in the
sphere of the mind. From this act results the expulsion
of an ethereal fluid, impotent to generate a child, but
capable of bringing Larvae into existence. Such an
imagination is the mother of a luxurious unchastity,
which, if continued, renders man impotent and woman
sterile, because much of the true creative and forma-
tive power is lost by the frequent exercise of such
a morbid imagination. This is frequently the cause
of moles, abortions, miscarriages, and malformations.
Such corrupted sperma may be taken away by spirits
that wander about at night, and who will carry it to a
place where they may hatch it out. There are spirits
'
that will perform an ' act with it, as may also be done
by witches, and, in consequence of that act, many curious
monsters of horrible shapes come into existence" (De
Oriff. Mori. Invis.).
"
If such monsters are born from a powerful, conscious
imagination, consciousness will also be created in them.
The spirits ofjiight can use all that is born from such
sperma according to their pleasure, but they can use
nothing of a human character or possessing true spirit."
"Amor hereos is a state of the invisible body, and is
caused by an overheated imagination, stimulated to such
an extent as to eject sperma, out of which Incnbi and
Succubi grow. In ordinary polMionibus nocturnalis, the
body loses sperma without any effort of the imagination^
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and the spirits of night can therefore not use it for their
purposes."
"If women have passed beyond the age of fertility
and are unchaste and of a vivid imagination, they often
call such things into existence. If persons of either
sex have lewd desires and an active imagination, or if
they are passionately in love with another person of the
opposite sex, and unable to obtain the object of their
desire and fancy, then an Incubus or Succubus may take
the place of the absent object, and in this way sorcerers
l " To
callSuccubi, and witches Incubi, into existence."
prevent such unfortunate occurrences, it is necessary
to be chaste, honest, and pure, in thought and desire,
and whoever is unable to remain so should not remain
2
single. Imagination is a great power, and
if the world
1
Mediaeval occulb literature and that of Modern Spiritualism contain
many examples of Incubi and Succubi, some having appeared visibly and
tangibly ; others, though unseen, were touched and felt. Such cases are
at the present da3 much more numerous than is commonly believed, but
" "
they can only materialise if the necessary conditions are given. They
are therefore only felt during a state of sickness, and after the recovery of
the patient they disappear, because they cannot draw the elements neces-
sary for materialisation out of a healthy constitution. Such Incubi and
Succubi are the products of a physically and morally diseased state. The
morbid imagination creates an image, the will of the person objectifies it,
and the nerve aura can render it substantial to sight and touch. More-
over, having once been created, they attract to themselves corresponding
influences from the astral soul of the world.
2 Animal instincts cannot be " flesh" cannot be
suppressed, and the
"
mortified," except by awakening a higher psychical activity in the place
of the lower ones, or by an exaltation of the spiritual nature over the
animal principle in man. Abstinence in acts is useless for spiritual
development, unless it is followed by abstinence in thought Enforced
celibacy does not make a priest ; a true priest is a saint, and saints are
persons who
have outgrown their carnal desires,
H2 PARACELSUS
" '
1
Experiments that have been made in London, with the inhalation of
various ethers, chloroform, nitrous oxide gas, and hydrocarbonates, have
had the effect of producing such "hallucinations." Before these gases
were known, fumigations of poisonous substances were used for such
purposes. The
receipts for the materials used for such fumigations were
kept very secret, on account of the abuse that might have been made
of such, a knowledge, and in consequence of which a person may be
even made insane. One of the most effective fumigations for the purpose
of causing apparitions were, according to Eckartshausen, made of the
following substances : Hemlock, Henbane, Saffron, Aloe, Opium, Man-
drake, Solanum, Poppy-seed, Asafcetida, and Parsley. The fumigations
to drive away evil spirits were made of Sulphur, Asafcetida, Castoreum,
and more especially of Hypericuzn and Vinegar. Carbolic Acid was not
known at that time.
2 This is confirmed
by Swedenborg in his description of " Hell," and
alsoby Jacob Boehme. The animal soul of the departed takes the
form and shape of that animal whose character predominated in his
constitution r
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formed into beings having shapes, through the action
of the spiritual rays. There are good spirits and
spirits of evil; planetary spirits and angels. There
are the spirits of the four elements, and there are many
thousand different kinds. 1
"
Bach child receives at the time of its birth a familiar
1
Nectromancy is not to be confounded with Necromancy.
3
The Count Saint Germain could read sealed letters, and the same was
repeatedly done by H. P. Blavatsky in the presence of the author.
* The whole of the universe is an
expression of consciousness, and there
are, therefore, innumerable states of conscious and intelligent will in the
world ; some in visible and others in invisible form ; some shapeless, like
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"In the practice of divination by sortilegium, &c., the
Plagse guide the hand. Such arts are neither from God
nor from the devil, but they are from the Flagee. The
ceremonies that are customarily used on such occasions
are mere superstition, and have been invented to give to
such occasions an air of solemnity. Those who do prac-
tise that art are often themselves ignorant of the laws
that control it, and they perhaps attribute the results
obtained to the ceremonies, and mistake tomfooleries for
the essential thing." 1
In regard to the reliance to be put on the revela-
"
tions of invisible beings, Paracelsus says : Evil spirits
love to lead men into error, and therefore their pro-
proved lies and illusions, and some spirits lie a great deal
more than others. But it may happen that perhaps ont
of a dozen predictions made by such spirits one accident-
currents of air ;
others undefined, like mists or olonds ; others solid, as
rocks some impermanent ; others permanent, like the stars.
;
1 The rationale on which
divination, geoxnancy, the practice of the
divining-rod, &c., is based, is that by means of such practices a knowledge
in regard to certain things, such as already exists in the spirit of man,
the other one is not tangible and not made from earth.
If a man who is a descendant from Adam wants to pass
1
Those who have some experience in modern spiritualism will recog-
nise the truth of this description. Spiritualists should not act upon
the advices of spirits, if such advices are against their own reason, and
scientists should not rely on the opinions of others, if such opinions are
the air ; but to the Undines the water is what the air is
to us, and if we
are surprised that they are in the water,
1 Man in his
aspect as a terrestrial being, and if we leave the divine
principle out of our consideration, is himself an elemental spirit of Nature,
composed of all the four elements ; but as he lives and breathes in the air,
he may be called an elemental of the air walking upon the earth.
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they would be drowned if they were under water, and
they would suffocate in the earth and be burned in the
fire; for each being belongs to its own Chaos and dies
if
ever have entered physically the abodes of disembodied adepts. But the
physical body of a man is not the man ; it is only his external shadow,
and wherever man's consciousness is, there will he be present himself.
But while he is there, he does not miss his exterior body, of which he has
no more use than of a part of his clothing purposely laid away, and on
reawakening to physical consciousness he may well believe that he hod
been to such a place in his physical form.
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1
"If any one marries a water-nymph, and she deserts him, he ought
not to take another wife, for the marriage has not been dissolved. If he
"
marries another woman he will shortly die (De Nyvnph.).
126 PARACELSUS
Occulta).
1 "
The "devil is evil spiritual wilL The devil has no power over man ;
but if man
allows a devil within himself to grow, then will the great Devil
aid the little devil to grow and nourish him with his own substance. (See
" The
Doctrines of Jacob Boehme.")
VI. MAGIC AND SORCERY
"
Magic and sorcery are two entirely different things,
and there is as much difference between them as there is
between light and darkness, and between white and black.
Magic is the greatest wisdom and the knowledge of super-
natural powers. 1 A
knowledge of spiritual things cannot
be obtained by merely reasoning logically from external
appearances existing on the physical plane, but it will
be acquired by obtaining more spirituality, and making
one's self capable to feel and to see the things of the
spirit. It would be well if our clergymen, who are
called guides, would know more of spiritual
spiritual
things than what they have read in their books, and if
they had some practical experience in divine wisdom,
instead of merely repeating the opinions of the other
1
therefore not surprising that in an age in which the very meaning of the
' '
term spiritual became incomprehensible to the learned, the meaning of
'magic' has become also a mystery."
1 "
The word supernatural," as employed by Paracelsus, does not imply
anything beyond Nature as a whole, because nothing exists beyond the
All, but it means that which transcends Nature in her lower aspect, or
a higher or spiritual aspect of Nature than the merely mechanical and
physiological part of her work. If, for instance, we follow our instincts,
we act naturally that is to say, according to the demands of our animal
nature ; but if we resist natural impulses by the power of will and reason,
we employ powers belonging to a higher order of Nature. If we avoid to
do evil on account of the evil consequences which it would cause to our-
selves, we act naturally ; but if we avoid it on account of an inherent love
of
principle,
we act in the wisdom of God,
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"
The wisdom which man ought to have does not come
from the spirit, but from the
earth, nor from the astral
fifth essence the Spirit of Wisdom. Therefore man is
superior to the stars and the constellation, provided he
lives in the power of that superior wisdom. Such a
person, being the master over heaven and earth, by means
1
of his freewill, is called a Magus, and therefore Magic
"
isnot sorcery, but supreme wisdom (De Peste).
"
Christ and the prophets and the apostles had magical
personal mind with his spiritual understanding has not yet taken place.
MAGIC AND SORCERY 133
1
There is nothing to prevent any person from seeing by this inner light
of Nature, except the errors, prejudices, and misconceptions which are
caused by the illusions of the senses, and which are intensified by an
education in a system of philosophy which mistakes these errors for funda-
mental truths. The truth can only be found where it is. A knowledge
of the supreme power of the universe cannot be obtained by denying its
existence. Life cannot be found in an empty form.
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all that belongs to heaven and hell, to know God and
His kingdom, the angels and spirits, and the origin of
evil. If a man is to go to a certain place, it will be
nsefnl to Mm to know all about that place before he
goes there he will then after his arrival be enabled to
;
1
The astral duplicate of the writing is seen
by the astral sense.
2 Man
possesses that power from birth, bat the majority lose it after-
wards by neglecting to use it, and in consequence of concentrating all
their attention upon the illusions of the material plane. Moreover, the
organs for the finer perceptions become paralysed and atrophied by the
use of alcoholic drinks.
136 PARACELSUS
dreams in regard to things which they desired to know.
Their imagination was then free, and began to work its
wonders. It attracted to it the Evestra of some philo-
1
Dreams or visions of a true spiritual origin make usually a very
strong impression, and are then not easily forgotten.
2
Thus, for instance, we may dream of a death and burial, and the cause
of that dream may be that one of the animal elementals in our own
constitution hasdied, or, in other words, that we have become free
from some degrading idea or element, an event which is surely a cause
for joy.
MAGIC AND SORCERY 137
1 All such
practices have a certain scientific reason. The experiments
of Reichenbaoh with the magnetic or odic emanations of persons and
objects have shown the great effect they have upon sensitive organisms ;
but to try such experiments upon hardened sceptics and habitual deniers
is like testing the powers of a magnet upon a piece of wood.
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in the imagination of man create corresponding images
in the mirror of Nature."
"Imagination is like the sun. The sun has a light
which is not tangible, but which, nevertheless, can set a
house on fire thus the imagination is like a sun in man
;
tinually act upon each other, and without the soul the
vehicle could not exist. Visible matter becomes in-
and is acted on by the soul, and invisible matter
visible,
becomes organised and is made visible again through
the influence of the soul. If a pregnant woman ima-
gines something strongly, the effects of her imagination
willbecome manifest in the child.1 Imagination springs
from and as man may have good or evil desires,
desire,
likewise he may have a good or an evil imagination.
A strong desire of either kind will give rise to a
strong imagination. Curses as well as blessings will
"
be effective if they come from the heart (De Virtue
1
For this reason pregnant women should during the time of their
pregnancy have beautiful surroundings and think noble and beautiful
thoughts.
3
If we do not think that which we speak, our words will be
empty
talk. He who thinks many
things disperses his power in many directions ;
he who thinks and wills only one thing is powerful
MAGIC AND SORCERY 139
"
Nothing can come out of the sphere of the mind
except what is drawn into it, and that which is drawn
into it can come out. If a pregnant woman craves for
1
This passage refers to the excursions of witches on the Hartz Moun-
tains and other places, often spoken of in the witch trials. Many supposed
witches were bnrnt to death for having confessed that they had attended
at such meetings.
140 PARACELSUS
such a woman
wishes that the whole world should die
with her, an epidemic may be the consequence of her
poisoned imagination."
"Fear, terror, passion, desire, joy, and envy are six
states of the mind which especially rule the imagination,
and consequently the world of man; and as the mind
of man
is the microcosmic counterpart of the universal
1
It may happen that the spirit of a person will go to a distant place
while the body is asleep, and act intelligently there, and that the man,
after awakening from his sleep, remembers nothing about it. But an
adept, in whom spiritual consciousness is his normal state, can do so
knowingly and consciously, and remember all about it after his spirit
(Majavi-Rupa) returns to his body.
3
Any one may make successful scientific experiments with thought-
transference. Similar scientific experiments for long distances will be
more difficult, on account of the differences of time, place, and conditions,
and because spiritually enlightened persons, possessing great power of
impressing their thoughts at great distances, are at present not easily
found.
8
It has been proved by many experiments that a person thrown into
a mesmeric sleep by a mesmeriser may be requested to do certain things
after he awakens from his sleep, and that after he awakens he will per-
form such actions, although he will not remember what has taken place
during his sleep. It is therefore very fortunate that, in the present state
of morality of our modern civilisation, such powers are not generally
known, and that they are not often in the possession of those who wish
to abuse them,
MAGIC AND SORCERY 143
injure his enemy without going near him, and the latter
cannot defend himself as he might if he were attacked by
a visible foe. Great care should be taken that the powers
of the faith are not misused, because in such a case it
will be witchcraft. The witches l are the most dangerous
persons in the world, if they use their evil will against
anybody."
"It would be very easy to give instructions so that
every one might convince himself of the truth of these
statements, but such instructions might be misused by
wicked persons who might employ such knowledge for
evil purposes ; and it is, moreover, not to be regretted if
methods by which one man may injure another should
not be publicly known. 2 But there are certain things
nothing of the power of the god, his own self. His faith was an artificial
and not a natural one. He knew nothing about God ; that is to say, he
bad no divine will ; he placed his confidence in the say so of the theo-
logians, but not in his own perception of truth.
1 "
They are now called hypnotisers."
2
It be remarked that the processes given below would not be
may
effective ifemployed by any one who is not in possession of power to
make them effective, and we see, therefore, no cause why they should
not be published. Those who
possess such evil powers know these things
already.
MAGIC AND SORCERY 145
patient,"
" A strong will subdues a weaker one, and therefore
1 modern erudition would take some trouble to
If the representatives of
power. If a person acts against his own natural instincts if he, for
instance, performs an act of unselfishness without any hope of reward
such an act may be called a supernatural act. The natural law for self
is selfishness, and if a man causes his selfish nature to act in a manner
that goes against the interests of that nature, he acts in the strength
of a power that is beyond his selfish nature and supernatural to it,
although that power is not outside of him. Spirit may manifest itself
in Nature, but it is not produced by Nature. God is the original cause
of all things ;
Nature is an effect, God is the will j
Nature its mani-
festation,
i 48 PARACELSUS
the Holy Ghost, and if you live in God He will over-
1
What a great field would be opened to the delight of our "physio-
logical institutes" and vivisectors for the gratification of their morbid
scientific curiosity if this art were taught, or if they believed in its
possibility Fortunately the scepticism of the fool is his own best pro-
!
sophia Sagax).
"
The sidereal man is of a magnetic nature, and for
that reason he can attract the powers and effluvia of the
astral-world. If, therefore, any inimical astral influences
are circulating in the All of Nature, the man becomes
sick, and if these currents change he will become well
again. The same thing happens if a good or an evil
"
To conjure the spirit of a thing means to seek after
the truth which that thing represents. To see the spirit
of a thing means to recognise the character of thnt
2
thing, with all its qualities and attributes. To make
the spirit of a thing subservient to one's power is to
know how to use the powers that are hidden in such
a thing for our own purposes. If I know the attributes
1 "
The whole world is like a man and a woman, and has also its
anima and its spiritus imaginationis ; only much stronger and more
powerfully than man/' The spirit orders, the will (matter) obeys;
thought (imagination) directs, the soul (the body) executes and produces,
be it
intellectually or without intelligence.
2 "
The "spirit of a thing is represeuted by the sum of its qualities.
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If it is the
" "
of a drowned person, the air in the room will appear
spirit
to become damp and musty, or perhaps a sprinkling of spray may take
" "
place. Moreover, if the spirit of a person who was a great drunkard
manifests itself, the air may become pervaded with the odour of alcohol.
1 The final fate of
sorcerers and black magicians has often been alluded
to in writings on occultism. The organisation of spiritual forces which
they create, and in which their consciousness and sensation rests, is
very strong ; but as it does not receive its life from tbe Supreme Spirit,
it isnot immortal, and its dissolution will therefore be painful and slow,
but certain.
2 Note. I have taken especial pains to investigate this subject, and I
have come to the conclusion that, if such persons make a bargain with
evil spirits,they usually do this effectually, not by any talk or cere-
monies, but by entering into a state of harmony of feeling (coming en
rapport] with such evil entities, and they may do this unconsciously or
unknowingly in their normal state, or it may be that only the sidereal
man knows that such a compact exists. Such "sorcerers" are often
evil-disposed but ignorant persons, who perhaps do not even know that
I 54 PARACELSUS
deal of damage, and the injured people do not know
the cause of the evils that afflict them. great deal A
might be said in regard to this subject, but
we will not
write it down, because we do not desire to give in-
the
they possess such powers, and they "bewitch" persons simply by
power of their ill-will, guided by some unseen intelligence, and without
in other instances they
being themselves conscious of their success ; but
know it. The fact that such sorceries do occur will not be doubted
by any one who has investigated the subject. They occur to a great
extent among the country people in Europe, and especially in Roman
Catholic countries. In Bavaria and Tyrol the country people are always
suspicious of strangers, whom they believe capable of bewitching their
cattle. They permit such strangers to enter their stables if the
will not
latter do not pronounce a blessing on entering it and if they are afraid
;
" "
At a farm-house not far from Munich the milk became one day blue ;
after having been deposited hi the usual place it began to darken, became
lightly blue, and that colour after a while deepened into an almost inky
darkness, while the layer of cream exhibited zigzag lines, and soon the
whole mass began to putrefy and to emit a horrible odour. This occurred
again and again every day, and the farmer was in despair. Everything
was attempted to find out the cause of the trouble ; the stable was
thoroughly cleaned, the place where the milk was kept was changed, a
different food was given to the cattle, and samples of the milk were sent to
Munich to be examined by chemists ; the old milk-pots were replaced by
new ones, &c., but nothing produced a change in the existing state of
affairs.
At last my sister, the Countess S , who resided in the neighbour-
hood, hearing of these things, went to that farm-house to investigate the
matter. She took with her a clean, new bottle, and filled it with the
milk as it came from the bewitched cows. This milk she took home with
her and deposited it in her own pantry, and from that day the trouble in
the house of her neighbour ceased, and all the milk in her own house
became blue.
Here again everything was tried to find ont the cause, but without any
success, until, about three months afterwards, some old lady living about
300 miles distant effected another spell by her own occult powers, using
some slips of paper, on which she wrote something, and in
consequence of
which the trouble ceased. Before it ceased, however, something strange
happened. Before daybreak, as the milkmaid was about to enter the
stable, some black thing like an animal rushed out of the half-opened
door, knocked the milk-pail and the lantern out of her hands, and dis-
appeared. After this all went well again.
On another occasion, in a similar case which took placein the name
MAGIC AND SORCERY 155
the sun, and the influences radiating from the sun return
to that centre. The sun radiates heat and attracts the
vapours of the earth, and likewise the heart of man
attracts the 'humidum menstrui,' which is a poisonous
again from the moon, it will bring evil to those who love
to look at the moon. The rays of the moon, passing
through that ring upon the mirror, become poisoned,
and poison the mirror ; and the mirror throws back the
poisoned ether into the atmosphere, and the moon and
the mirror poison each other in the same manner as two
malicious persons, by looking at each other, poison each
other's souls with their eyes. If a mirror is strongly
1
The more the physical body is active, the more will it need material
food. The more the astral body is active, the more will it attract nutri-
ment from the astral plane. The more divine love is active in man, the
more will his soul receive of the substance of Christ. Each of these three
states has its own functions and qualities.
160 PARACELSUS
should not be permitted to nurse and educate infants,
because the impressions which their imagination creates
unconsciously impresses itself and acts injuriously upon
the minds of the children. The imagination is the
cause that beings have been created out of the 'Mumia
1
spiritualis'which possesses great powers" (Fragment:
De Virtute Imaginations) .
"
By the power of the imagination foreign bodies are
transferred invisibly into the bodies of human beings, in
the same manner as if I take a stone in my hand and
put it into a tub of water, and, withdrawing my hand,
I leave the stone in the water. Menstruating witches
especiallymay dissolve (dematerialise) bodies by the
power of their imagination. They make a figure of
wax representing the person whom they wish to injure,
and they tie a cloth spotted with menstrual blood around
the neck of that figure, and attach it there by means of
a string drawn through the pulpy mass of a crushed
spider. They then take a bow and an arrow made of a
certain kind of wood ; they tie pieces of glass, or nails,
or bristles, or anything else, to that arrow, and shoot it
into the waxen image ; and in this way the articles dis-
solved by their imagination are by the power of the
Mumia transmitted into the body of the sensitive person,
and there they will be found in a corporeal form " (De
Sagis).
"The power of the imagination is a great factor in
medicine. It produces diseases in man and in animals,
i
According to Paracelsus, the characteristic signs by which witches
can be known, or which justify the suspicion of a person being a witch,
are as follows :
1 Fear makes a
person negative and liable to be infected. During the
time of epidemic diseases, those who are not afraid of being infected are
the least liable to become their victims. He who is confident that he
cannot be affected by sorceries is not liable to become their victim.
" He who fears thinks of nothing but eviL He has no confidence in
God (in himself) ; he only imagines diseases and death, and thus he creates
diseases in his imagination, and
ultimately makes himself sick" (De
PestMtate, ii.).
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how could you do so, as you possess no art, and all your
boasted science is nothing but an invention to cheat and
deceive ? You denounce me because I do not follow
your schools; but your schools can teach me nothing
which would be worth knowing. You belong to the
tribe of snakes, and I expect nothing but poison from
slowly developing and far more dangerous disease for a more acute and
lessdangerous one. The reason why this is not generally known is
because the diseases inoculated by vaccination often appear only a long
time after its performance, and their cause is therefore not recognised.
Thus a lifelong suffering from eczema is often the consequence of
vaccination.
As to the celebrated Pasteur cures, it is said that, of all his patients,
ninety-six per cent, have died, while the remaining four were probably not
infected, and would have remained well anyhow.
PARACELSUS
(LdbyrinthuB Medicoruni).
"A. physician should exercise his art, not for his
own but for the sake of the patient. If he
benefit,
practises merely for his own benefit, such a physician
resembles a wolf, and is even worse tlian an ordinary
murderer ; for, while a man may defend himself against
a murderous attack made upon him on the high-road,
he has no means of defence against the murderer who,
under the guise of a benefactor and protected by law,
comes to steal his goods and destroy his life."
"A
physician should be above all honest and true.
Let his speech be 'yes' and no,' and let him avoid
c
" The
anatomy of man is twofold. One aspect of it
astronomy.'
"
Astronomy is the upper part of philosophy by which
the whole of the microcosm may become known. Philo-
sophy deals with the elements of earth and water, belong-
ing to man's constitution. Astronomy deals with his air
and fire (the mind). There is a heaven and earth in man
as there is in the macrocosm, and in that heaven there
are all the celestial influences, whose visible represen-
tations we see in the sky, such as the planets and stars,
the Milky Way, the Zodiac, &c., neither more nor less for ;
from the influences which act upon him and enter his
constitution. The astral influences are invisible, but
they act upon man, unless he knows how to protect him-
self against them. Heat and light are intangible and
incorporeal; nevertheless, they act upon man, and the
same takes place with other invisible influences. If the
air becomes vitiated, it will poison man's body ; if the
astral influences are in a state of corruption, they will do
176 PARACELSUS
likewise. The elements themselves are invisible ; that
which is visible belongs merely to the external form.
The Arcanum of Han i.e.,
the real inner man is in-
visible ;
that which we see of him is not an essential part of
1
his constitution, but merely his external corporeal form."
"The things which we see are not the active prin-
ciples, but merely the corpus containing
them ; the visible
forms are merely external expressions of invisible prin-
ciples. Forms are, so to say, the vehicles of powers, ajad
they may be visible or invisible. The invisible air and
the ether of space, or a perfectly clear and, therefore,
invisible crystal, are just as much corporeal as the solid
1
Recent experiments go to prove that sensation may be externalised.
Thus, for instance, a man may surround himself with an invisible shell or
aura by projecting his own odic emanations to a certain distance from his
body; so that, while his body becomes insensible to pain, the pain will be
felt when the aura around him is touched. This goes to show that sensa-
tion exists in the odic aura (Prana), and not in the physical form.
(Corn-
pare E. Da Prel, Die fympathetiscTie Kurmefhodt.}
MEDICINE 177
1
We should sympathise with the patient, but not with his disease.
We should not confirm him in his morbid fancies, or encourage him
in believing himself sick. The majority of sick people lack the energy
K
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praise the master, and not the master the work" (De
Separat. Ber.).
All arts originate in divine wisdom, and no man ever
invented anything through his own power. Man cannot
accomplish even the most trifling thing without the
power of the Will; but the will of man is not his
product and does not belong to him ; it belongs to God,
and has merely been lent to man ; he is permitted to
use it, and abtises it on account of his ignorance. All
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as well as the evil
things come from" God, the good
ones; but while the former are His direct products,
and in harmony with the Law, the latter are, so to
say, His grandchildren which
have become degenerated ;
for evil is good perverted. Those who put their trust in
God that is power of Goodness, Wisdom,
to say, in the
THE ARCHJEUS
All organic functions are caused by the activity of
one universal principle of Life. This principle acts in
allthe members of the body, either slow or quick, per-
ceptible or imperceptible, consciously or unconsciously,
normal or abnormal, according to the constitution of the
organs in which it is active. As long as the character
(the spirit) of an entity is preserved, it acts in that
entity as a whole ; if ihe form is broken up and loses
its character, it manifests itself in other forms ;
the life
"
The ArchaBus is of a magnetic nature, and attracts
or repels other sympathetic or antipathetic forces be-
longing to the same plane. The
power of resistance less
for astral influences a person
possesses, the more will
he be subject to such influences. The vital force is
not enclosed in man, but radiates around him like a
luminous sphere, and it can be made to act at a dis-
tance. In those semi-material rays the imagination of
1
It is the Pranamaya of Sankaracharya.
MEDICINE 183
THE MUMU
The Archaeus is the essence of life, but the principle
in which this essence contained, and which serves as
is
*'
its vehicle, is called Mumia. In the Muniia is great
power, and the cures that have been performed by the
use of the Mumia are natural, although they are very
little understood by the vulgar, because they are the
1
It would be interesting to find out how many chronic diseases and
lifelong evils are caused by vaccination. If the organism contains some
poisonous elements, Nature attempts to remove it by an expulsive effort
caused by the action of the spirit from the centre toward the periphery,
and producing cutaneous diseases. If by vaccination a new herd is estab-
lished to attract the diseased elements (Mumia), the manifestation of
the poison on the surface of the body may disappear, but the poisonous
elements will remain in the body, and some other more serious disease will
manifest itself sooner or later.
3 This invisible Mumia, that may be transferred from one living being to
" animal
another, is nothing else but the vehicle of life, or magnetism.'
186 PARACELSUS
the seat of the power that infuses life into the former,
and without which the former would be dead and decay-
ing. If we separate the vital force from the physical
form, the body dies and putrefies ; and by impregnating
a dying body with vitality it can be made to live again.
The invisible forces acting in the visible body are often
very powerful, and may be guided by the imagination
and be propelled by the will. As the odour of a lily
passes from the flower into the surrounding air, so the
vital force contained in the invisible body passes into
the visible form and beyond it. The physical body has
the capacity to produce visible organs such as the eyes
and the ears, the tongue and the nose but they all take
the true elixir of life. The Mumia acts from one living
being directly upon another, or it may be connected with
some material and visible vehicle, and be employed in
" l
that shape (De Origine Morbor. Invwbilium).
SYMPATHETIC CUBES
"
Man possesses a magnetic power by which he can
attract certain effluvia of a good or evil quality in the
same manner as a magnet will attract particles of iron.
A magnet may be prepared from iron that will attract
iron, and a magnet may be prepared out of some vital
substance that will attract vitality. Such a magnet is
'
called the magnes microcosmi,' and
prepared out of it is
merism.
188 PARACELSUS
flammation existing in such a part, because it attracts the
superabundance of magnetism carried to that place by
the rush of the blood. The Mumia coming from the
body of a person continues to remain for a while in sym-
pathetic relationship (magnetic rapport) with the Mumia
contained in such a person, and they act magnetically
upon each other. If, therefore, the Mumia is extracted
from a diseased part of a person by a microcosmic magnet,
and the magnet mixed with earth, and an herb is planted
into it, the Mumia in the magnet will be extracted by
that plant, and lose its diseased matter, and react in a
beneficial manner upon the Mumia contained in the body
of the patient ; but it is necessary that the selected plant
should be one which bears the signature of the disease
with which the patient is affected, so that it will attract
the specific from the stars.
influence In this way
diseased elements may be magnetically extracted out
of a person and inoculated into a plant. This is called
the transplantation of diseases; and diseases may, in a
similar manner, be transplanted into animals that are
" The excrements of the patient may be dried as described above, and
pulverised ; they are tied up in a cloth and applied as a poultice, until
they are penetrated with sweat from the patient, and the powder is then
mixed with earth and inserted into a flower-pot, and a plant bearing the
signature of the patient's disease is planted into it. After the plant has
grown a while it is thrown into running water in oases of fevers and in-
ant-hill; the ants will eat it, and the patient recovers.
In atrophy of the limbs the Mumia is taken from the
upper and lower joints of the diseased limb, and planted
with an oak or cherry tree. Diseases can also be cured
by transplantation, if the diseased part is covered for a
while with a piece of fresh beef, until the sweat enters
1
intoit, and the beef is then given to a cat to eat
1
An intelligent physician will neither accept nor reject the sympathetic
cures to which the directions given above refer, although they may seem
to be absurd and based upon superstition. The term "superstition " signi-
fiesa belief in something of which we have no knowledge, but if we under-
stand the rationale of a thing the superstition ends.
8 who
Have those ridicule this statement ever employed the hypericum
in cases of hallucination IF
MEDICINE 19!
THE MAGNET
Paracelsus was better acquainted than our modern
physicians with the therapeutic powers of the magnet,
and used it in various diseases. He knew the powers
of mineral, human, and astral magnetism, and his doc-
trines in regard to human magnetism have been con-
firmed to a great extent since the time of his death.
More than a hundred years ago Mesmer created a sen-
sation in the medical world by his discovery of animal
magnetism and by his magnetic cures. His discovery
was then believed to refer to something new and un-
heard of, but Lessing proved already in 1769 that the
real discoverer of animal magnetism was Paracelsus.
In regard to the powers of the magnetism Paracelsus
says :
"
That which constitutes a magnet is an attractive
power, which is beyond our understanding, but which,
PHYSIOLOGY
grows out of the old one, and that which was hereto-
fore invisible becomes visible. The physician should
be able to see that which is not visible to everybody.
He should see it in the light of Nature, and if this
visible and
light is to be called a light, it must be
not dark/
I 96 PARACELSUS
" The
physical body of man
is grown from a physical
and you will then see the picture, but not the wood ;
but a wet rag may wipe out all that the painter has
made. Thus we have been cut out by the hand of God,
and He formed us in the three Substances and painted
us all over with Life, but death wipes out the picture.
Therefore we should not allow ourselves to be seduced
by the temptations of life, seeing that they are nothing
but resembling colours which in themselves
illusions,
are neither red, nor yellow, nor green, but merely
appear to be so to the eye. Death too has its colours,
and if the colour of death takes the place of the colour
of life, death gets the mastery over life; these two
colours the physician should know, but they do not
explain the disease ; they are merely outward signs, and
"
as such they are illusive (Paramir., i. 5).
"It is erroneous to speak of fever as if this were
c
disease. The name fever' refers to the heat of the
disease, and this heat is merely a symptom ; it is neither
the cause nor the substance of the disease; it would
be more appropriate to call it Morbus Nitri or Morbus
9
THERAPEUTICS
SIGNATURES
"
All natural forms bear their signatures, which indicate
their true nature. Minerals, vegetables, and animals re-
main true to their nature, and their forms indicate their
character. Man, who has become unnatural, is the only
being whose character often belies his form, because,
while his character may have changed into that of an
animal, his form has retained the human shape. If
such men could re-enter the Limbus of Nature and
be born again in forms which correspond to their true
1
We
ought not to forget that each planet corresponds to a certain
Btatc of the mind. Thus h represents a melancholy, <J a fiery temper,
(ta dreamy disposition, ambition and pride, g intelligence, 9 love
TJ.
(heat and cold, love and hatred, &c.) are at war with
1
That which is divine in man is only one, and has only one, aspect ; all
parts.
~We give below a list of some principally useful herbs,
the names of the planets to which they are sympatheti-
cally related, and the names of the principal diseases in
which they may be used with advantage. It will, how-
ever, appear reasonable that it makes a vast difference
whether such plants are fresh or whether they have
been dried, and their occult properties are, moreover, to
1
It would be interesting to collect statistics of crimes, showing exactly
the time when they have taken place, comparing the latter with the time
of the conjunctions of the planets existing at the same longitude and
latitude, and alsocompare them with the constellations that ruled at the
time of birth.
216 PARACELSUS
a great extent modified by the time of the day or night,
and under what planetary conjunctions they have been
gathered, and at what time they
are used. Bach plant
should be gathered at a time when the planet to which
it is related rules the hour, and its essence should be
1
extracted as long as it is fresh.
1
4. Diseases originating from Spiritual Causes.
This class of diseases includes all evils that are caused
by an will, resulting from passions, evil
evil desires,
disordered thoughts, and a morbid imagination. Such
psychological states produce physiological changes in
the physical body. Shame produces a blush in the face,
and terror produces a paleness. Fear causes diarrhoea;
melancholy, obstructions; anger or envy gives rise to
jaundice. Gaiety may cure, and grief may kill. Yiolent
emotions produce miscarriages, apoplexy, spasms, hysterics,
and cause malformations of the foetus, &c., &c. Such
things are known to all who have investigated such
matters; but it is less generally known that the evil
imagination of one person can affect the mind of another,
poison his vitality, and injure or kill his body.
The reason why this is not generally known is, that
the imagination of the majority of men and women in
our present state of civilisation is too weak, their will
too feeble, and their faith too much pervaded by doubt
to produce the desired effects ; and it is fortunate that
their imagination, however evil it may be, has not much
does not expect and is not prepared for the attack but ;
weight removed.
is Likewise, if he breaks a limb of
that figure, a limb will be broken in the person whom
the figure represents, or he thus inflicts cuts, stabs, or
other injuries upon an enemy. It is done through
all
1
is a glorious new field of activity for the enterprising
Here again
vivihcctionist Imt unfortunately he in whom such evjl forms of will-
;
power (elftnuntfilri or dcvila) have come into existence will not get rid
.ltl -in easily, ami he will be himself the greatest sufferer in the end.
226 PARACELSUS
the spiritof envious, jealous, revengeful, and wicked
of the practices
persons can, even if they are ignorant
of sorcery, injure those who are the objects of their
evil will while the body is asleep; for dreams which
come from the spirit are actually enacted,
but dreams
which do not come from the spirit are only plays of
fancy/'
"One render another poison harmless,
poison will
and thus the of the imagination of one person
effect
neutralises the effects of the imagination of another.
If any one can make an image of wax to injure my
body, I may make
another image to attract the evil
spell His image obtains its power by the force of
his faith, and my image obtains its virtue by the
blessing from ;
God
but the presence of an ignorant or
greedy doctor a public calamity and a curse to all.
is
" I.
Naturalcs i.e., those who treat diseased conditions
with opposite remedies ;
for instance, cold by warmth,
dryness by moisture, &c., according to the principle,
Contraria contrariis curantur. To this class belonged
Amccnna, Galen, &c." (Allopaffiy, Hydrothcrapi?, cfec.).
" 2,
Specific^ Such as employ specific remedies, of
which it is known that they have certain affinities for
certain morbid conditions. To this class belong the
Empirics
1
Tho word eternal does not signify a time without end, but a state in
which time not measured, and in which it therefore does not exist.
is
9 Amisunderstanding of the doctrine of Karma may give rise to an
erroiu'oiiH belief, which may be productive of serious harm. There are
great mini herd of religious fanatics in the East, and some in the West,
who would not make an attempt to pull a person out of a burning house,
<u>n ifthey could easily do so, because they believe that if it is "the
will of hift Karma, that he should perish in the fire, it would be
God," or
wrong to interfere with that law, and to frustrate the purpose of God.
Thi'y Hhould remember that if it was the will of God which caused such
a prr-non to fall into danger, it must also have been the will of God which
B*nt them near, and enabled them to save; and if they neglect to do
their duty and suffer himto perish, they are arrogating to themselves the
prerogatives of goda. They then act against the law, and will become
responsible for their act. God acts through man, and a man who does
not respond to His call, and refuses to obey the Divine command, spoken
within his heart, is a useless instrument, and will be rejected.
230 PARACELSUS
" The physicians of this class have
3. Charaeterales.
the power to cure diseases by employing their will-
"
power (Magnetism, Suggestion, Mind-Owe).
have
"4. Spirituales.The followers of this system
the power to employ spiritual forces, in the same sense
as a judge has power over a prisoner in the stocks, because
he is in possession of the keys. Such a physician was
"
Hippocrates (Hypnotism, &c.).
"
i.e., those who cure by
Fiddes
5. the power of Faith,
"
such as Christ and the apostles (Magic).
"
Among these five classes, the first one is usually the
most orthodox and narrow-minded, and rejects the other
four for not being able to understand them."
"From each of the five causes of diseases all kinds of
diseases may spring, and each kind of disease can there-
fore be divided into five classes, according to its cause.
There are consequently five kinds of plague and five
kinds of cholera, five kinds of dropsy or cancer, &c. If,
for instance, a plague appears, the Natwrales will say it
is caused by a disorganisation of the bodily structures,
while the Astrologer will say it is caused by a certnin
constellation of planetary influences ; but there mny be
three more causes which produced that epidemic, and
which determine its character.
will Moreover, each
disease manifest itself in two ways, one of which
may
belongs to the department of Medicine, the other one
to the department of Surgery. That which radiates from
the centre (constitutional diseases) belongs to Medicine ;
that which is localised i.e., circumscribed or confined
to a certain locality 1
belongs to Surgery.
"
Each physician, no matter to which sect he belongs,
should know the five causes of diseases and the five
methods of treatment; but each method is in itself
sufficient to cure all diseases, no matter from what cause
"
they originate (De Ifatibus Morbosom).
1 The word "surgery" is here applied in a sense somewhat different
from its modern acceptation.
MEDICINE 231
1
So are light, heat, electricity, &c. Each of them is an individual, and
nevertheless universally existing, energy.
232 PARACELSUS
to the physician, for his usefulness does not consist in
in his ability
merely possessing theoretical knowledge, but
to restore health. He must learn to know these sub-
stances by studying the light of Nature, not by seeking
them in his own imagination; he should become able
to see Nature as she is, and not as he or others may
l
This true approbation"
is his
"
The ignorant refuse to follow Nature, and they fol-
low their own fancies. Understanding is twofold. One
understanding comes from experience, the other from
aptitude; the former, again, is twofold, and is based
either upon the understanding of the law or merely
upon haphazard experiment. The former is the one
upon which true medicine rests, and implies the know-
MEDICINE 235
ARCANA (MYSTERIES)
his organisation ;
and before a man becomes able to
send his soul within the soul of another person, his own
will must become godlike and free. A "hypnofisrr"
merely paralyses the will of a weak-minded person and
induces a kind of dream but the magic power of the
;
' J
but Mars ? That is to say, Venus and Artemisia are
both the products of the same essence, and Mars and
iron are both the manifestations of the same cause.
What is the human body but a constellation of the same
powers that formed the stars in the sky? lie who
knows what iron is, knows the attributes of Mars. He
who knows Mars, knows the qualities of iron. What
1
"Man, being the son of the Microcosm, IKIS in him also all th iiiinrral
"
elements (De Pcste).
ALCHEM Y AND ASTROLOG Y 241
'
tlca if there were no Venus ? To grasp the invisible
elements ; to attract them by their material correspond-
ences; to control, purify, and transform them by the
living power of the Spirit this is true alchemy"
(Paragran. i.).
1
JohannesTritheim, Abbot of Spanheim, one of the greatest alchemists,
theologians, and astrologers, a learned and highly esteemed man, iimkufl
some remarks in his book (printed at Passau, 1506) that may holt) to
ALCHEMY AND ASTROLOGY 245
1
"The sophist says that nothing living can come out of dead Biib
stances, but no substance is dead, and they know nothing about the
alchemical labour. The death of a man is surely nothing but the
separation of the three substances of which his body is composed, and
the death of a metal is the taking away of its corporeal form " (De Mortc
JRervan).
a "The
three Substances are three forms or aspects of the one uni-
which everything was created ; for the un-
versal will-substance out of
manifested Absolute in manifesting itself reveals itself as a of trinity
cause, action, and effect; father, son, and the holy ghost; body, mml,
and spirit.
"It is therefore, above all, necessary that we should realise- the
nature of the three Substances as they exist in the Macrocosm and
recognise their qualities, and we shall then also know thir nature ami
attributes in the Microcosm of man. That which burns and appears
fiery to the eye is of a volatile (spiritual) nature;
the Sulphur, it is
that which is of a material nature
the Salt; and the Mercury is that
is
which may be sublimated by the action of the fire. It is invisible in
its condition of Prima materia, but in its ultimate state it
may be H*-n ;
and as the whole constitution of man conhists of these throe Butmt-LnrrH,
consequently there are three modes in which dfaeaft'R may originatr*,
namely, in the SwZpAwr, in the Mercury, or in the Salt. As limg ai
these three Substances are full of life they are in health, but when they
ALCHEMY AND ASTROLOGY U$
"There are hundreds of different kinds of salt,
sulphur, and mercury in the universe and in the
human system, and the greatest arcana (potencies)
are contained in them. All things are hidden in
them in the same sense as a pear is hidden in a pear-
tree and grapes in a vine. The superficial observer
sees only that which exists for his senses, but the
interiorsight discovers the things of the future. A
gardener knows that a vine will produce no pears,
and a pear-tree no grapes. The ignorant speak of
heat and cold, of dryness and moisture, of sweetness
and acidity, of bitterness and astringency, without
knowing the cause that produces such qualities; but
the wise recognise in them the qualities of the stars"
(Paragramm).
"
Let no one be so foolish as to imagine that Alchemy
can easily be understood and be made common property.
If you want to make the sphere of Saturn run in
harmony with earthly life, you may put all the planets
therein. Of Lu,na, however, you must not take too
much; only a little. Let it all run until the heaven
of Saturn entirely disappears; then will the planets
remain. They will have died in their corruptible bodies
and taken an incorruptible perfect body. This is the
life and spirit of heaven which causes the planets to
all the tomfoolery for which you throw away your time
and your money ? All such things are useless, and the
labour for it is lost. They are rather an impediment
than a help to arrive at the truth." But he was a
practical alchemist. In the preface to his work entitled
" " "
Tinctura Physica he says : I have a treasure buried
at the hospital at Weiden (Friaul), which is a jewel of
such a value that neither Pope Leo nor the Emperor
1
The "tinctura physicorum" is a great alchemical mystery.
TrismegistuB of Egypt, Oius of Greece, Kali, an Arab, and Albertus
Magnus of Germany were acquainted with it It is also called the Red
Lion, and is mentioned in many alchemical works, but was actually
known to few. Its preparation is extremely difficult, as there in tho
presence of two perfectly harmonious people, equsdly skilful, necatwary
for that purpose. It is said to be a red ethereal fluid, capable of trans-
muting all inferior metals into gold, and having other wonderful virtues.
There is an old church in the vicinity of Kenysten, a town in th Honth
of Bavaria, where this tincture is said to bo till buried in the
ground.
In the year 1698 some of it penetrated through the poll, and the phcuo.
menon was witnessed by many people, who believed it to be a xnr;u:l.
A church was therefore erected at that place, and it in still a well-known
place of pilgrimage. In regard to the material (if it may bu HO callfd)
used for the of this medicine, Paracelsus
" li
preparation great any*:
careful not to take anything from the lion but the rou-colnurt'd blood,
and from the white eagle only the white gluten. Coagulate (corporify)
it according to the directions
given by the ancients, and you will have tltr
tinctura phyricorum. But if this is incomprehensible to you, nmtumbrr
that only he who desires with his whole heart will fun!, and to him only
who knocks strong enough the door shall be opened."
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CHARMS
The power of certain substances to absorb and to
retain certain planetary influences is used for the purpose
of investing them with occult qualities. Pure metals
may be used by the alchemist and in.
for that purpose,
this way amulets, "magic mirrors," and other things
that will produce magic effects are prepared. Para-
celsus says:
"The compositions of the astra of metals produce
wonderful effects. If we make a composition of seven
metals in the proper order and at the proper time, we
will obtain a metal which contains all the virtues of the
c a
seven. Such a composition is called electrum. It
possesses the virtues of the seven metals that enter
into its composition, and the electrum is one of the
most valuable preparations known to secret science.
The ordinary metals cannot be compared with it on
account of its magic power. A
vessel made of the
electrum will immediately indicate it, if any poisonous
substance has been surreptitiously put into it, because
it will begin to sweat on its outside."
PALINGENESIS
HOMONCULI
"
Human beings may come into existence without
natural parents. That is to say, such beings grow
without being developed and born by a female organism ;
by the art of an experienced spagyricus (alchemist)."
De Natwra Serum, vol. i
"The generatio homimwdi has until now been kept
very secret, and so little was publicly known about it
that the old philosophers have doubted its possibility.
But I know that such things may be accomplished by
spagyric art assisted by natural processes. If the spenna,
enclosed in a hermetically sealed glass, is buried in horse
*
manure for about forty days, and properly
magnetised/
it
begins to live and to move.
After such a time it bears
the form and resemblance of a human being, but it will
be transparent and without a corpus. If it is now arti-
l
ficially fed with the arcanum sanguinis hominis until it
is about forty weeks old, and if allowed to remain during
that time in the horse-manure in a continually equal
temperature, it will grow into a human child, with all
its members developed like any other child, such as could
but dear water' ; but whenever tbe Abbe* knocked three times at the seal
'
upon the month of the bottles, speaking at the same time some Hebrew
words, the water in the bottles began to turn blue (respectively red), and
the blue and the red spirits would show their faces, first very small, but
growing in proportions until they attained the size of an ordinary human
face. The face of the blue spirit was beautiful, like an angel, but that of
the red one bore a horrible expression.
" These
beings were fed by the Count about once every three or four
days with some rose-coloured substance which he kept in a silver box, and
of which he gave to each spirit a pill of about the size of a pea. Once
every week the water had to be removed, and the bottles filled again with
pure rain-water. This change had to be accomplished very rapidly, be-
cause during the few moments that the spirits were exposed to the air
they closed their eyes, aud seemed to become weak and unconscious, as if
they were about to die. But the blue spirit was never fed, nor was the
water changed 5 while the red one received once a week a thimbleful of
fresh blood of some animal (chicken), and this blood disappeared in the
water as soon as it was poured into it, without colouring or troubling it.
The water containing the red spirit had to be changed once every two or
three days. As soon as the bottle was opened it became dark and cloudy,
and emitted an odour of rotten eggs.
" In the course of time these
spirits grew to be about two spans long,
and their bottles were now alinoat too small for them to stand erect ;
the Count therefore provided them with appropriate seats. These bottles
were carried to the place where the Masonic Lodge of which the Count was
the presiding Master met, and after each meeting they were carried back
again. During the meetings the spirits gave prophecien about future
events that usually proved to be correct. They knew the most secret
things, but each of them was only acquainted with such things as be-
longed to his station : for instance, the king could talk politic^ the monk
about religion, the miner about minmals, &c. ; but the blue and the red
seemed to know everything.
spirits (Some facts proving their clairvoyant
powers are given in the original.)
" some accident the
By glass containing the monk fell one day upon the
floor, and was broken. The poor monk died after a few painful respira-
tions, in spite of all the efforts of the Count to save his life, and his
body
was buried in the garden. An attempt to generate another one, made
by
the Count without the assistance of the Abbe*, who had left, resulted in
failure, as it produced only a small thing like a leech, which had very
little vitality, and soon died.
" One
day the king escaped from hit* bottle, which had not been pro-
perly sealed, and was found by Kammerer sitting on the top of the bottle
ALCHEMY AND ASTROLOGY 259
containing the qneen, attempting to scratch with his nails the seal away,
and to liberate her. In answer to the servant's call for help, the Count
rushed in, and after a prolonged chase caught the king, who, from his
long exposure to the air and the want of his appropriate element, had
become faint, and was replaced into his bottle not, however, without
succeeding to scratch the nose of the Count."
It seems that the Count of Kufstein in later years became anxious for
the salvation of his soul, and considered it incompatible with the re-
quirements of his conscience to keep those spirits longer in his possession,
and that he got rid of them in some manner not mentioned by the scribe.
We will not make an attempt at comment, but would advise those who
are curious about this matter to read the book from which the above
account is an extract. There can be hardly any doubt as to its veracity,
because some historically well-known persons, such as Count Max Lam-
berg, Count Franz Josef v. Thun, and others, saw them, and they pos-
sessed undoubtedly visible and tangible bodies ;and it seems that they
were either elemental spirits, or, what appears to be more probable,
homunculi
1
The following is a prescription how to make artificial gold, taken from
an old alchemistical MS., and a marginal note says that an experiment
tried with it proved successful -.Take equal parts of powdered iron, sub-
limated sulphur, and crude antimony. Melt it in a crucible, and keep it
in red heat for eight hours. Powder it, and calcinate it until the sulphur
is evaporated. Mix two parts of this powder with one part of calcinated
borax, and melt it again. Powder and dissolve it in common muriatic
acid, and let it stand in a moderate heat for one month. The fluid is
then to be put into a retort and distilled, and the fluid that collects in
the recipient (the muriatic acid) is returned into the retort and again dis-
tilled, and this is repeated three times ; the third time a red powder will
be left in the retort (probably a mixture of muriate of iron with antimo-
ninm oxide). This powder is to be dissolved in the menstruum phUoao-
phicuin, (made by pouring chloride of antimony into water, filtering, and
evaporating the fluid to a certain extent, to make it stronger). The sola-
260 PARACELSUS
external experiments as useless in the end, and it seems
to be more than probable that, even in such chemical
experiments as may have succeeded, something more
than merely chemical manipulations was required to make
them successful. 1
"
The heavenly fire which comes to us from the sun,
tion is to be evaporated again, and the remaining powder mixed with its
own weight of oorrosive sublimate of mercury. This powder is to be
dissolved again in the menstruum phUosophicum (diluted muriatic acid),
and a red oily substance passes into the receiver. If you
distilled until
obtain this you may take some newly prepared chloride of silver, satu-
oil,
rate it gradually with the oil, and dry it. Put one part of this powder
into five parts of molten lead, separate the lead again from the silver
(by cupellation), and you will find that one-third of the silver has been
transformed into gold.
* There is a considerable amount of historical evidence of a
trustworthy
character that goes to prove that pure gold has been artificially made, but
it is, to say the least, doubtful if this was done in a way that could be
both have had the same qualities, they did not take them
from each other. It is an old saying that a wise man '
They are free for themselves, and we are free for our-
selves. You believe that one man is more successful in
the acquirement of knowledge, another one in the acqui-
sition of power; one obtains riches more easily, and
another one fame. And you think that this is caused
by the stars; but I believe the cause to be that one
man is more apt than another to acquire and to hold
'
from the astral c
spirits is
sorcery. Such spirits are
false, and we do not believe in them ; but we believe in
the power of that wisdom which rules heaven, and by
which all the mysteries of Nature may be known. Sor-
cery has been called magic; but magic is wisdom, and
there is no wisdom in sorcery. True science knows
everything. The eternity of all things is without time,
without beginning, and without an end. It is sub-
1 It is
not divine man, but the elements in the body of man, which attract
corresponding influences from the powers of marocosmic Nature.
2
If they come from the spirit, the spirit must have pry-existed, and
have acquired them in a previous incarnation.
ALCHEMY AND ASTROLOGY 263
pathy with our astral bodies but the same is the case with
;
many stars are still too far away to form a connection with
the earth. The realm of stars and ideas is infinite, and
therefore the source of inventions and discoveries is not
yet exhausted."
" New stars appear and others disappear on the sky.
1
By "stars" (astra) Paracelsus does not refer to th physical bodies of
the planets, but to mental states existing in the Cosmoa, and which are
represented by the stars.
ALCHEMY AND ASTROLOGY 265
spiritual man rules over the stars and over the elements,
and conquers the worlds without and the world within
by the wisdom that comes from God. Stones, plants,
and animals obey the government of the mind, and
man should obey the will and wisdom of God. The
individual terrestrial life should correspond to the laws
governing the universe ;
man's spiritual aspirations
should be directed to harmonise with the will and .
philosophy ;
it looks like knowledge, but it is the out-
come of ignorance, gilded and varnished to deceive the
KNOWLEDGE
Everybody knows that the thinking faculty is not our own self, but
i
that there is something in us which has the power to think or to let think-
ing alone. This something is higher than the intellectual realm, and
therefore than all of its " stars,"
higher
272 PARACELSUS
coaxed with promises, but it comes those whose to
minds are pure and whose hearts are open to receive
it. It is said that those who wish to become wise
must be like children, but there are few amongst the
learnedwho would be willing to undertake such a feat.
SPIRITUAL KEGENEBATION
FAITH
accomplish much."
" If
any one thinks that he can cure a disease, or
accomplish anything else, without the power derived
from God, he believes in a superstition; but if he
believes that he can perform such a thing because he
is conscious of having obtained the power to do so, he
REINCARNATION
" The body which we from our parents, and
receive
which is built up from the nutriments it draws directly
and indirectly from the earth, has no spiritual powers,
for wisdom and virtue, faith, hope, and charity, do not
grow from the earth. These powers are not the pro-
ducts of man's physical organisation, but the attributes
of another invisible and glorified body, whose germs are
2
laid within man. The physical body changes and dies,
the glorified body is eternal. This eternal man is the
real man, and is not generated by his earthly parents.
He does not draw nutriment from the earth, but from
the eternal invisible source from which he originated.
Nevertheless the two bodies are one, and man may be
compared to a tree, drawing his nutriment from the
earth, and from the surrounding air. The roots extend
into the earth, and seek their nutriment in the dark, but
1
This is the curse of all dabblers in the divine mysteries, that when
they begin to believe that there is something superior to the merely animal
man, this belief opens the door for superstition and idolatry ; for, having
no knowledge of the power of the divine will within their own self, they
are devoid of the true faith, which is divine self-confidence. Th<y thc-m-
fore put their trust, not in the one true God, but in the gnd which thuy
have created within their own imagination. They seek in outward tiling
for that which they cannot find within their own empty HhcllH. Thvy
neglect their duties as men and revel in dreams wherein there
nothing is
real. Some put their faith in doctors and priests, others in horbw and mot*,
still others in magic spells and incantations ; but the wise know that th
first step on the road to spiritual unfoldment its the fulfilment of onc'it
duties as a man ; for no god can grow out of a man unlfHH the man hun
become truly that which he ought to be. In this fulfilment of onvV duty
and becoming true to one's nature as man rests the germ of true happi-
ness, and from this germ is evolved the regenerated man in whom heaven
exists and who lives through eternity.
a
Where should that germ come from, if it had not existed before, ftml
how did it attain its divine qualities ?
PHILOSOPHY AND THEOSOPHY 279
1
Thny are born with the tendenci*n which they acquired in formic
liven upon the earth, or upon HOTTIU other plivnut. Tho ptTHoniticil devilp
we iwct in the world are the "materialised" i urn is of deviliuh powera
cxmiing upon thu astral plane.
2 $o PARACELSUS
the sunshine to enable it to take from the earth the
elements necessary for its growth, and in the same sense
the spiritual body of man, receiving its nutriment from
the spirit, could not unfold and develop if it were
not for the presence of the physical body of man,
with its elementary and elemental forces; for the
THE CHURCH
The rock upon which the true
(spiritual) church is
founded is not to be found in
nor in Protestantism,Rome
nor in the realm of fancy, but in the power of faith.
"It is the Word of Wisdom from which you should
learn, and in that Word you will find neither statuary
nor paintings, but only the universal spirit. If faith
is preached to you, it is done for the purpose of im-
planting it into your heart, where it may take root and
1
The balsam of life (a man without sexual power is unfit for initiation).
2
Man and woman are both one in the Lord. The "man " is the .spirit
and "woman" the soul.
PHILOSOPHY AND THEOSOPHY 281
faith that originatesfrom selfish desire (Raja*) ; but the true faith
springs
from wisdom (Sattwa), and is itself the way for its attainment.
PHILOSOPHY AND THEOSOPHY 283
know who and what God is, but we can learn to know
God only by becoming wise, and we become wise when
the wisdom of God becomes manifested in us. The works
of God will become manifest to us through wisdom,
and God will be most pleased if we become His image.
To become like God we must become attracted to God,
who is the universal fountain of all, and the power that
attracts us is divine love. The love of God will be
kindled in our hearts by an ardent love for humanity,
and a love for humanity will be caused by a love of God.
Thus the God of the Macrocosm and the God of the
Microcosm act upon each other, and both are one, for
there is only one God, and one law, and one Nature,
through which wisdom becomes manifest" (De Funda-
mento Sapientice).
"
There is an earthly sun, which is the cause of all
heat, and all who are able to see may see the sun, and
those who are blind and cannot see him may feel his
heat. There is an eternal sun, which is the source
of all wisdom, and those whose spiritual senses have
awakened to life will see that sun, and be conscious of his
existence but those who have not attained full spiritual
;
UNSELFISHNESS
" "
Theosophy is the wisdom of God in man, and
therefore cannot be appropriated by any person. It cannot
become manifested in man as long as there exists in him
286 PARACELSUS
the delusion of "self," because that "self" is a limited
and to drink wisdom from the eternal fountain of truth. They never
quarrel about opinions, because they know the truth. Then number is
small. Some live in Europe, others in Africa, but they are bound together
by the harmony of their souls, and they are therefore as one. They are
joined together, although they may be thousands of miles apart from each
other. They understand each other, although they speak in different
tongues, because the language of the sages is spiritual perception.
" No
evil-disposed person could possibly live among them, because he
would be recognised immediately, for he would be incapable of being illu-
minated by wisdom, and as a mirror covered with mire cannot reflect the
light, likewise such a soul cannot reflect the truth. But the more the soul of
man grows perfect, the nearer does it approach to God, and the more will
its understanding grow and its love be exalted. Thus may man enter
into sanctification ; he may communicate with perfect beings in the
spiritual kingdom, and be instructed and guided by them. He will be a
true child of God. All Nature will be subject to him, because he will be
an instrument to carry out the will of the Creator of Nature. He knows
the future, the thoughts and the instincts of men, because the mysteries
of eternity are open before him.
"But the plans of the worldly-wise will come to nought That which
took the followers of false science centuries to accomplish will be wiped
out by a single stroke of the finger of God, and a nobler generation will
come, which will worship God in spirit and in truth."
1
There are three kinds of knowledge : I. External knowledge, or
scientific opinions in regard to external things (Gal. vi. 3). This know-
ledge leads to error, because it concentrates all the attention upon the
illusory exterior of things, and keeps the mind in ignorance in regard to
interior truths. 2. Knowledge received by entering into the mysteries
APPENDIX 289
CBBATION
GENERATION
from the unmanifested Absolute by the power of its own will, and being
identical with the former. The Greeks called it Zeus (Power), Minerva
(Wisdom), and Apollo (Beaut v) ; the Germans, Wodan (the Supreme
Cause), Thor (Power), and Freia (Beauty). Jehovah and Allah are trini-
ties of Will, Knowledge, and Power ; and even the Materialist believes
in Causation, Matter, and Energy.
1
There are three kinds of imagination :
passive imagination, active
thought, creative thought.
8 There
are three kinds of birth : the birth of the flesh, of the soul, and
of the spirit; and each birth has three stages : generation,
germination,
APPENDIX 291
INITIATION
* "
Initiation," or baptism," is the growth of the spiri-
tual principle, which is germinally contained in every
man, into consciousness. "Two germs grow into one
man. One comes from the Spirit, the other germ comes
from Nature ; but the two are one. One becomes con-
scious of Nature, the other one may become conscious
of the Spirit. One is the child of Adam, the other the
son of Christ There are a few whose spiritual conscious-
ness is awakened to life, who have died in Adam and
8
are reborn of Christ; those who are reborn know
and fructification. The first birth is the natural birth of man ; the second
is the awakening of the soul, and the attainment of its power (EJphes.
iv. 13) to control the desires and passions ; it is, so to say, an invisible fire*,
penetrating the whole of the body. The third birth is the regeneration
of thUflrit, its awakening to spiritual consciousness. The last stage is
attained by very few (i Cor. xv. 47 ; St. John iii. 6).
1
&
^
Krishna, Buddha, Christ.
8 " Adam." The failures of the Dhyan-Chohans.
8 The Adam" forms the animal elements of the soul, but the
"flesh of
the spirit (the sixth principle). All the animal principles
flesh of Christ is
of the spirit
growth into the spirit of wisdom, the victory
l
over the animal nature of man."
We
know that nobody can enjoy the possession of any
external sense, such as sight, hearing, &c., unless he has
organs adapted for that purpose. The same is true in
regard to the inner senses of man, which also require the
organisation of a spiritual but nevertheless substantial
body and as the physical body generates its organs in
;
MEDITTMSHIP
OCCULT PHENOMENA
1
There are three distinct classes of mediumship : mechanical medium-
ship, in which the physical forces of the medium are used by extraneous
influences (obsession, physical manifestations, &c.) ; emotional medium-
ship, by which the energies of the soul of the medium are stimulated
and his feelings and his thoughts aroused (trance speaking and
; writing)
spiritual mediumship, in which wisdom manifests itself through transcen-
dentally conscious man (ecstasy, illumination).
2 It is said
that "darkness is absence of light." We
may say with equal
truth that "light is absence of darkness;" light and darkness are cer-
tain states of the cosmic ether (A'kasa). Light is
"spirit," darkness is
" matter." Both have
positive qualities (Gen. i. 4).
APPENDIX 295
1
Such manifestations be witnessed frequently in
of occult power may
spiritualistic stances. The reason why they seem incomprehensible
to us
is because we habitually look upon form as something real instead of
seeing
in it an illusion, and because our accepted opinions in regard to the con-
stitution of matter are fundamentally wrong.
8
The earthly atmosphere may be, so to say, perforated by a tube
or wire, carrying an electric current, and the ether (A'kasa) be " per-
forated" likewise by a current of spiritual force. An electric current
passes unimpeded through the earth ; a thought current passes unimpeded
through the A'kasa.
8
The human soul is threefold the animal, intellectual, and spiritual
:
soul. The imperfect elements of the soul die ; that which is perfect remains
alive. Life is threefold : the organic life, the life of the soul, and that of
the spirit
APPENDIX 297
sence of the latter that raises man above the animal, and
its absence that makes an animal of what once appeared
1
THE ELIXIR OF LiFE
during life upon the earth that man can acquire know-
ledge and improve his character ; after death he acquires
nothing new, but enjoys his possessions. Paracelsus,
likeEoger Bacon, Verulam, and others, maintained that
the human body could be rejuvenated to a certain extent
by a fresh supply of vitality, and it was his aim to find
means by which such a supply could be obtained. He
"
If we could extract the fire of life from the heart
without destroying the heart, and draw the quintessence
out of inanimate things, and use it for our purpose, we
might live for ever in the enjoyment of health, and with-
out experiencing any disease. But this is not possible
in our present condition. We
cannot reverse the laws
of Nature, and whatever dies a natural death cannot be
resuscitated by man. But man may mend that which
he himself has broken, and break that which he himself
has made. All things have a certain time during which
they exist upon the earth. The saints have a certain
time during which they exist, and also the wicked. If
a man's time to stay is over, he will have to leave. But
1
The writings attributedto Paracelsus in regard to this subject that
are known at present are partly spurious, partly
fragmentary, and the
translations incorrect. The extracts given below of his writings on the
Elixir of Life are taken from an original MS. in private possession.
APPENDIX 299
and fresh alcohol is put upon the alkaline Said, and the
operation is repeated until all the colouring matter is
absorbed by the alcohol. This alcoholic fluid is now to
be distilled, and the alcohol evaporated until it becomes
of the thickness of a syrup, which is the Primum JEns
Melissa; but the alcohol that has been distilled away
and the liquid potash may be used again. The liquid
potash must be of great concentration and the alcohol of
great strength, else they would become mixed, and the
1
experiment would not succeed."
"
i
Lesebure, a physician of Louis XIV. of France, gives, in his Guide
to Chemistry" ("Chemischer Handleiter," Nuremberg, 1685, p. 276),
an account of some experiments, witnessed by himself, with the Primwn
" One of
Ens Melissa as follows :
my most intimate friends prepared the
Primum Ens Mdisscs, and his curiosity would not allow him to rest until
he had seen with his own eyes the effect of this arcanum, so that he might
be certain whether or not the accounts given of its virtues were true. He
therefore made the experiment, upon himself, then upon an old
first
female servant, aged seventy years, and afterwards upon an old hen that
was kept at his house. First he took, every morning at sunrise, a glass
of white wine that was tinctured with this remedy, and after using it for
fourteen days his finger and toe nails began to fall out, without, however,
causing any pain. He was not courageous enough to continue the experi-
ment, but gave the same remedy to the old female servant. She took
it every morning for about ten days, when she began to menstruate
again, as in former days. At this she was very much surprised,
because she did not know that she had been taking a medicine. She
became frightened, and refused to continue the experiment. My friend
took, therefore, some grain, soaked it in that wine, and gave it to the old
hen to eat, and on the sixth day that bird began to lose its feathers, and
kept on losing them until it was perfectly nude ; bat before two weeks
had passed away new feathers grew, which were much more beautifully
coloured ; her comb stood up again, and she began again to lay eggs."
"
In the " Life of Cagliostro some such rejuvenating medicine is men-
tioned, and the names of some persons who succeeded in the experiment
are given* These and similar facts have neither been proved nor dis-
proved by" science, but are waiting for an investigation. The judges at
the trial of Cagliostro, before the tribunal of the Inquisition at Borne,
were only intent to convict him ; but he who can read their report be-
"
" favour
tween the lines will find a great deal that speaks in of Cagliostro,
and much that has not been explained.
302 APPENDIX
THE ALCAHEST
The celebrated Alcahest is an universal medicine
whose preparation was also known to Helmont and to
some Eosicrucians. It was considered by them as one
of the greatest mysteries. It is prepared as follows :
"
Take freshly prepared caustic lime, if possible still
warm ; quickly in a dry place, and put it into
powder it
a retort. Add
much absolute alcohol as the powder
as
will absorb, and distil the alcohol at a moderate heat,
until the powder in the retort is left perfectly dry. The
distilled alcohol is now to be poured again upon the
lime, and distilled, and this operation repeated ten times.
Mix the powder with the fifth part of its own weight
of pure carbonate of potash. This must be done very
quickly and in a dry atmosphere, so that it will not
attract any moisture. Insert the mixture of the two
powders into a retort and heat it gradually, after putting
about two ounces of absolute alcohol into the recipient.
White vapours arise from the powder, and are attracted
ZENEXTOET
i This takes place in the Macrocosm during the time of the new
moon, occurring each year between October 23 and November 23.
INDEX
INCLUDING ALL THE TERMS PECULIAR TO PARACELSUS
-
-
influences, 113, 175,
212, 215, 218, 263
210,
- 91
i
life,
Alcol,3i light, 32, 85, 88, 125, 210
Allara,76 world, 90
Aluech, 31 Astrology, 32, 216, 238
Amor hereos, 1 10 Astronomy, 90, 174
Amulets, 36, 222, 303 Astrum, 32, 96
Anatomy, 56, 172, 194 Atmosphere, 150
Angels, 124, 133, 134
Aniadum, 31
Animal instinct,
man, 61
60, 205
-
Attraction, 200, 246, 263
Aura, 57
seminalis, 71
Authority, 163, 167, 171 192
reason, 173, 205, 208, 220, 276, 281
269
SOUl, 222
Animals, 60, 115, 205, 225 BALSAM of life, 48, 81, 101, 280
Anthropology, 63 Baptism, 292
Anyodei, 31 Bargain with devils, 153
306 INDEX
Basilise, 112 Confidence, 149, 162, 179
1
Edelphus, 34 GABAL, 93
Egos, 211 Gamathei, 36
Electrum magicum, 34, 251, 254 Generation of man, 63, 75, 290
Elemental spirits, 65 85 Geomancy, 118
spirits of nature, 63, 119 Ghosts, 83, 107, 108, 112
Elementals, 34, 63, 86, 120 Giants, 36, 125
Elexnentaries, 35, 115 Gnomes, 36, 65, 121
Elementary body, 81, 83, 95, God, 44, 50, 163, 169, 180, 184,
123, 196, 219, 238, 264, 274, 227, 234, 269, 273, 282, 281;
279, 288 Gold, 245
Elements, 35, 46, 64, 90, 120, artificially made, 259
123, 176, 213, 220 transmutation of, 260
Elixir of life, 217, 298 Graveyards, 83
Emanations, 221 Growth, 283
Ens, 199 Guardian spirits, 1 16
astrale, 200
deale, 227 HAEOKEL, 59
nature, 206 Hallucination, 115
seminis, 69, 201 Happiness, 272
spirituale, 221 Harmony, 68, 265
veneni, 203 Haunted, houses, 89, 106
Epilepsy, 225 Health, 181, 207
Erodiniuin, 35 Heart, 161, 163, 208
Essence of life, 151, 218 Heaven, 169, 196, 212
Eternity, 229 Hell, 279
Evestra, 35, 87 Herbarium spirituale, 57
Evil desires, 162 Herbs, 56, 190, 215
eye, 158 Hidden treasures, 117, 250
imagination, 155 Holy Ghost, 289
spirits, 113, 118, 127, 153, water, 108
157, 162 Homunculi, 36, 256
Excrements, 187 Hypericum perforatum, 190
Exorcism, 85, 105 Hypocrisy, 275
Hypnotism, 142, 236
FAITH, u, 137, 142, i47i 162,
167, i7?> 226, 227, 276, 282 IDEAL, 273
Familiar spirits, 116 Ignorance, 126, 132, 282
Fancy, 141 Ilech, 36, 37
Father, 62, 289 Iliaster, 37
Fever, 197 Illusions, 197, 284
Fifth essence, 82, 241 Images, 145, 148, 158, 160, 225
Fire, 46, 81, 138, 196 Imagination, 73, 109, in, 125,
Firmament, 90 137, 147, 159. 162,221,226
Flagse,36, 116, 135 of women, 74, no, 138, 159
Flesh, 121, 151 Immortality, 97
Food, 159, 196, 203, 205 Impressions, 37
Foreseeing future events, 37, Impurities, 203
Incarnation, 60
Forms, 93, 115, 217, 268 Incense, 108
Fortune-telling, n8 Incubus and Succubus, 37, 109,
Freedom, 271 in
Fumigation, 115 Inner sense, 55, 114, 274
308 INDEX
Insanity, 113 Magic, 38, 54, 86, 128, 150 161,
Instincts. 135 224
Instructionreceived duringsleep, bells, 252
132 black, 139, 144, 153, 185,
Intelligence. 134 221, 224
Intuition, 194, 283 circles. 162
Invisible man, 82, 131, 253, 278, crystals, 117
279 images, 148
Invisibility, 1
14, 294 mirrors, 158, 251, 254
rings, 252
JUPITER, 242 Magicians, 131, 153
Magistermm, 38
KARMA, 127, 227, 228 Magnetic cures, 188, 193
Knowledge, 117, 129, 131, 134, Magnets, 156, 161, 182, 188, 191,
180, 214, 233, 269, 271, 275, 211, 226
282, 289 Man, 51, 77, 81, 119, 167, 196,
artificial, 180, 274 211, 280
of good and evil, 144, 211, constitution of, 81
279 divine, 60, 81, 278
of nature, 130, 173 elementary body, 95, 175
of self, 132,214,271 magical power in, 132
spiritual, 184, 268 object of existence, 60, 69,
272
LAPIS Philosophorum, 236, 279 origin, 60, 63, 64
no, 113
Larvae, 109, sidereal, 66, 82, 91, 148,
Leffas, 38
Lemures, 38, 106
I7
V 47
soul-essence of, 66
Leo, 112 spiritual, 67, 278
Letters, occult, 117, 295 anganoria, 38
closed, read, 117 Maria (Maya), 214
Life, 46, 48, 98, 181, 209, 264, Marks, 89
298 Marriage, 67, 78
chemistry of, 177 with nymphs and sylphs,
elixir of, 217,
298 125
essence, 151, 218 Mars, 200, 240, 242
forms or vehicles, 181 Martial diseases, 192, 202
universal, 217 Masses for the dead, 85
Light of nature, 180, 195, 282, Materia prima, 195, 236, 264
293 Matrix, 38
01 spirit, 282 Matter, 48, 102,223
Limbus, 38, 44, 70, 209, 211 primordial, 195, 236, 264
Liquor vit, 70, 156, 182 Medical science, 170, 199
Logos, 44, 60, 289 wisdom, 184, 235
Lord, 78 Medicine, 54, 165, 183
Love, 67, 214, 242, 272 practice of, 165, 229
charms, 136, 158 qualification for practice,
of self, 274 54, 232
Lying spirits, 262 systems of, 199
Medicines, 56, 59, 206, 208
MACROCOSM and microcosm, 39, Mediums, 106
47, 73 173* 193, 208, 219, Mediumsnip, 293
248 Melissa, 196, 209, 240
INDEX 309
cause of disease, 1 13
SAGANI, 41 consciousness, 67, 131
Saints, 125, 163, 281 knowledge, 129, 268
-worfung miracles, 147 perception, 65, 155
Salamanders, 41, 91, 121 Spiritualism, 42, 85, 297
Salt, 41, 204, 231 Spiritualistic phenomena, 85, 89,
Salt, Sulphur, and Mercury, 41, 92, 117, I35i52, 239
197, 231, 247, 249 Spirituality, 151, 163, 236, 241
Sapientia, 169 Spiritus animalis, 42
Saturn, 243 vit88, 42
Scaiolae, 41 Stars, 56, 201, 212, 217, 265
Science, 63, 127, 132, 178, 207, and plants, 56, 215, 241,
253, 244, 276 246, 262, 269
Second sight, 132 Substance, 49, 219, 233, 247
Self-control, 55,284 Succubi, 37, 109, 1 1 1
Self-possession, 99 Suicides, 100, 105
Self-thinking, 171 Sulphur, 204, 231
Semen, 71, no Sun, 156, 194, 214, 242
Separation, 246 Supernatural, 129
Seven metals, 251 Superstition, 127, 190, 277
planets, 241, 245 Sylvestres, 121
principles, 241 Sympathetic remedies, 187, 189
Sex, 73 Sympathy, 47, 58, 100, 177
Sexual intercourse, 80 Systems of medicine, 229
Sexuality, 71, 79
Sidereal body, 41, 140 TALISMAN, 263
Signatures, 55, 189, 209 Tartaric diseases, 204
INDEX
Tartarus, 204 VACCINATION, 166, 185
Teaching during sleep, 96 Vampires, 43, 107, 226
Temperaments, 71 Vegetarianism, 151
Theosophists, 268, 272 Vehicles, 59, 98, 1
86, 276, 283
Theosophy, 42, 266, 273 Venus, 208, 241, 242
Therapeutics, 198, 207 Vibrations, 104, 207
Thought, 221 Virtue of a physician, 168
naturalised, 57, 65, 140, Visions, 87, 91, 92, 94
239
transfer, 142, 296 WARNING to dabblers in alchemy,
Three substances, 64, 197, 204, 147, 245, 278
231, 233, 247, 249 Wax figures in magic, 140, 158,
worlds, 263 160
Tiffereau, 260 Weather-making, 150
Tinctura physica, 236, 250 Wisdom, 127, 130, 168, 179, 188,
Transformation, 245, 295 214, 262, 269, 271, 274, 282,
Transmutation, 247, 295 284
Transplantation of disease, iSS Witchcraft, in, 144, 148, 153
Trarames, 42, 87 Witches, no, 112, 157, 226
Treatment of disease, 189, 193, signs of, 1 60
199,211,217. Will, 204, 222, 225
Trinity, 248, 289 acting at a distance, 140
Tritheim, Abbot, 244 Will-power, 108, 141, 177, 179,
Truth, 172, 233 225
seeking of, 131 Will-spirit, 123, 161
Turba, 89 Woman, 73, 76, 156, 203
Word, 60, 290
UMBRATILES, 43 Worlds, invisible, 63, 263
Undines, 91, 121
Union with God, 273 XENI nephidei, 43
Unity, 47. 172
Universal mind, 141, 207, YLIASTBE, 43, 44, 46
264
Universe, 47, 172 ZENifiXTON, 303
THB END