Paracelsus Essential Readings

Regarded today as the father of modern medicine, Paracelsus (1493-1541) was in fact much more besides. Natural scientist, philosopher, alchemist, with a deep distrust of orthodoxy and rational thought, he intermixed Christian theology with the Qabalah, believing that magic reveals the invisible influences behind things, bringing heavenly forces down to earth.

Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke was educated at Lancing College and the University of Bristol. He gained his Doctorate of Philosophy at Oxford for a thesis in German history, subsequently published as The Occult Roots of Nazism. He is Series Editor of the Essential Readings.

Acknowledgements

9

(13)

INTRODUCTION

The life of Paracelsus

13

(10)

The Philosophy, medicine, and theology of Paracelsus

23

(18)

MEDICINE

Elf Traktat (c. 1520)

41

(4)

Volumen medicinae Paramirum (c. 1520)

45

(13)

Das Buch von der Gebarung der empfindlichen Dinge in der Vernunft (c. 1520)

58

(5)

Neun Bucher Archidoxis (1526)

63

(8)

Das Buch Paragranum (1529-30)

71

(5)

PARACELSUS

Opus Paramirum (1530-1)

76

(25)

Labyrinthus medicorum errantium 1538)

101

(4)

Sieben Defensiones (1538)

105

(4)

PHILOSOPHY

Astronomia Magna or the whole Philosophia Sagax of the Great and Little World (1537-8)

109

(38)

RELIGION AND POLITICS

Liber prologi in vitam beatam (1533)

147

(6)

De religione perpetua (1533)

153

(5)

De honestis utrisque divitiis (1533)

158

(6)

De ordine doni (1533)

164

(9)

PANSOPHY, MAGIC AND CABBALA

De natura rerum (1537)

173

(19)

Archidoxis magica (c. 1570)

192

(6)

Liber Azoth sive de ligno et linea vitae (1590)

198

(6)

Sources and Bibliography

204

(3)

Index

207

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