‘Each person is a sun and a moon, and a heaven filled with stars. ‘
Paracelsus
Astrologer, occultist, alchemist, doctor, radical & magician – He’s totally fascinating. From his Wikipedia entry:
“….His wanderings as an itinerant physician and sometime journeyman miner [5] took him through Germany, France, Spain, Hungary, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden and Russia.Paracelsus did not think of himself as a magician and scorned those who did, though he was a practicing astrologer, as were most, if not all of the university-trained physicians working at this time in Europe. Astrology was a very important part of Paracelsus’ medicine. In his Archidoxes of Magic Paracelsus devoted several sections to astrological talismans for curing disease, providing talismans for various maladies as well as talismans for each sign of the Zodiac. He also invented an alphabet called the Alphabet of the Magi, for engraving angelic names upon talismans….”
Paracelsus pioneered the use of chemicals and minerals in medicine. He used the name “zink” for the element zinc in about 1526, based on the sharp pointed appearance of its crystals after smelting and the old German word “zinke” for pointed…” He even makes it into Harry Potter.
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OMG what a cool dude! wouldve loved to go see HIM at the Mind Body Spirit festival! how does he make it to harry potter? is he one of those amazing chocolate cards? lol
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Where are all the cool dudes today…………… a journeyman miner, I want to meet one of them!
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Leo ex has been playing a whole heap of vid conferences getting on the topic of Issac Newton and then ancient alchemists. This man came up.
Mystic, Have you heard about the 20th nov perfumist who’s linked notes in scent to music notes and who’s father was a south american anarchist? he wrote a book I only got half way through and could never find his name again.
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my fave Paracelcus quote ” according to your system of belief, you are right “
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So was “You are what you think” derived from that? Interesting…
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Paracelsus a doctor primarily (I have the impression he was..)
A healer above all… traveling around, like a doctor would-
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Excellent, I love that quotation
I really like all your posts about fellow mystics through the ages! -
This dude is an Uber-Alchemist…the Rosicrucians link back to him in much of their writings.
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