Paracelsus
Subtitle: Selected Writings (Princeton/Bollingen Paperbacks)
Edition: 2nd edition
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
Published: June 1958
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 362
ISBN-13: 9780691098104
Subjects: Man; Unassigned Title; History & Surveys - Modern; Medicine: General Issues; Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present; Human beings; Early works to 1800
First sentence: around me reveal themselves with a mysterious urge") is not animism, and his spiritualization of nature is not pantheism. For the authentic Christian principle of Paracelsus' philosophy is that God's spirit breathes in all created things but indirectly, through the light of nature; only in man does it also live directly, outside the natural light, in the immortal body, which is the very centre of his soul.