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BOLLING EN SERIES XXVIII ~.AJ.r £lUVS NON SlT.QYl Svv.s LSSE. POT.EST. AY. PH. THo pAJ,ACBUf. NATt AN. ' •••• MOIlTVL AM. 14sio Ar. SV.5 +7. Ut. PARACELSUS SELECTED WRITINGS EDITED WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JOLANDE JACOBI TRANSLATED BY NORBERT GUTERMAN BOLLINGEN SERIES XXVIII PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS Published by Princeton University Press, 41 William Street, Princeton, New Jersey 08540 In the United Kingdom: Princeton University Press, Chichester, West Sussex Copyright@ 1951 by Bollingen Foundation Inc., New York, N.Y. Copyright @ renewed by Princeton University Press, 1979 All Rights Reserved ISBN 0-691-09810-7 (cloth) ISBN 0-691-01876-6 (pbk.) First PrincetoniBollingen Paperback printing, 1988 This volume is the twenty-eighth in a series of books sponsored by the Bollingen Foundation Originally published in German as Theophrastus ParaceJsus: Lebendiges Erbe, by Rascher Verlag. Zurich, 1942. Princeton University Press books are printed on acid-free paper and meet the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources Printed in the United States of America by Princeton Academic Press Fourth paperback printing, and first printing in the Mythos series, 1995 798 CONTENTS List of Illustrations Ix Foreword to the English Edition, by C. G. Jung xxi Preface uv Note on the Section Ornaments xxxv Paracelsus: His Life and His Work xxxvii PARACELSUS: SELECTED WRITINGS 3 I. MAN AND THE CREATED WORLD 11 Creation of the World 15 . Creation of Man 17 Man and His Body 19 Creation of Woman 2S Woman: Tree of Life 27 Seed and Fruit SS Man and Woman S5 Man in the Cosmos 39 Dignity of Man 45 II. MAN AND HIS BODY 47 Art of Medicine 51 Mission of Medicine 57 Sickness and Health 63 v CONTENTS The Merciful Physician ffT Nature of Disease 75 The Physician's Remedies 83 Rules for the Healthy 87 Diet and Dosage 89 Preparation of Remedies 93 Eternal Medicine 97 III. MAN AND WORD 99 Toil, a Divine Commandment 100 School of Nature 109 Inner and Outer Worlds 121 Arts, a Gift of God 127 Interpretation of Dreams 135 Saints and Magicians 137 Alchemy, Art of Transformation 141 Wisdom and the Stars 151 IV. MAN AND ETmCS 157 Knowledge and Faith 161 Truth and Falsehood 1ffT Love, the Supreme Good 171 Humility and Repentance 173 On Our Sins 175 Wealth and Poverty 177 V. MAN AND SPIRIT 179 Two Lights of Man 183 On True Government 187 Man and Devil 189 Power of Faith 193 VI. MAN AND FATE 201 Good and Bad Fortune 205 Man and Death 211 Last Judgment 217 vi CONTENTS VII. GoD, THE ETERNAL LICHT Key to Sources 235 Glossary 245 Bibliography 267 lndeus 281 vii LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Paracelsus (aet. 45). Engraving by Augustin Hirschvogel, 1538. (Graphic Collection, Central Library, Zurich.) - Frontispiece 1. A Tribute to Paracelsus-Apparently a Kind of Broadside. German woodcut on a single page, by an unknown artist, six teenth century. The likeness is from an engraving by Au gustin Hirschvogel. (Graphic Collection, Central Library, Zurich. ) - xxiii 2. Paracelsus. Detail from title-page of Crollius, Basilica chy- mica (op. cit. for fig. 6). - xxxvii 3. Einsiedeln in 1577. Contemporary woodcut, anonymous. The house with the weathervane on the roof, to the right of Devil's Bridge, is supposedly the birthplace of Paracelsus. (Graphic Collection, Central Library, Zurich.) - xli 4. First page of Der grossen Wundartzney ... , Augsburg: Heynrich Steyner, 1536. This volume is an earlier edition of Steyner's 1537 volume listed in the bibliography. The 1536 volume is in the New York Academy of Medicine Library. According to a bibliographical notation pasted in the volume, it is a second edition, with author's corrections, the first having been printed by Varnier at Ulm in the same year. - xlix 5. Signature and impression of the signet ring of Paracelsus. Facsimile of the original in a letter to Amerbach in Basel. (From Archbishop Raimund Netzhammer, Theophrastus Paracelsus, Einsiedeln, 1901.) - 9 6. A Group of Great Alchemists and Physicians: (reading down, left) Hermes Trismegistus, Morienus Romanus, and Raimundus Lullus; (right) Geber OAbir), Roger Bacon, and Paracelsus. Title-page of Basilica chymica, by Oswald Crollius (d. 1609), physician and alchemist. Frankfurt, 1629. (Graphic Collection, Central Library, Zurich.) -10 ix
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