Paracelsus

Selected Writings

Paracelsus, Jolande Jacobi, Norbert Guterman

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Year: 2021
• eBook ISBN:
  9780691238227
• Print ISBN:
  9780691018768
  9780691098104

The enigmatic sixteenth-century Swiss physician and natural philosopher Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, called Paracelsus, is known for the almost superhuman energy with which he produced his innumerable writings, for his remarkable achievements in the development of science, and for his reputation as a visionary (not to mention sorcerer) and alchemist. Little is known of his biography beyond his legendary achievements, and the details of his life have been filled in over the centuries by his admirers. This richly illustrated anthology presents in modernized language a selection of the moral thought of a man who was not only a self-willed genius charged with the dynamism of an impetuous and turbulent age but also in many ways a humble seeker after truth, who deeply influenced C. G. Jung and his followers.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Foreword to the English Edition
• Preface
• Note on the Section Ornaments
• Paracelsus: His Life and His Work
• Paracelsus: Selected Writings
• Credo
• Key to Sources
• Glossary
• Bibliography
• Indexes
• General Index