Paracelsus
Subtitle: Selected Writings
Contributors: Jolande Jacobi (Editor); Norbert Guterman (Translator)
Series: Mythos
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: September 18, 1995
Place of publication: Princeton, USA
Language: eng
Translated from: ger
Translation of: Theophrastus Paracelsus: Lebendiges Erbe
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 362
ISBN-13: 9780691018768
Copyright date: 1979
Subjects: History of science; Western philosophy, c 500 to c 1600; Man; Early works to 1800; Body, Mind & Spirit; Philosophy; New Age; Mind & Body; History & Surveys - Modern; Mysticism; Body, Mind & Spirit / Mysticism; Mind, Body, Spirit; Religion; Human beings
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.