Парацельс

Paracelsus AKA Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim AKA Theophrastus "Paracelsus", means "equal to or greater than Celsus", refers to the Roman encyclopedist Aulus Cornelius Celsus from the 1st century, known for his tract on medicine. AKA The German Trismegistus AKA Theophrastia Valentiniana ; Philippus Aureolus Paracelsus AKA Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim AKA the German Hermes

German-Swiss 1493 – 1541 or 1547 Teachers: Johannes Trithemius; Marsilio Ficino; Giovanni Pico della Mirandola; Dr. Isaac of Holland AKA Isaac Hollandus, not sure if it was Father or Son; Salomon Trismosin, author of Splendor Solis, may be a corruption of Hermes Trismegistus and Solomon; embellished Aristotle ; Abbot Trithemius of Sponheim; Sir George Ripley; Artephius AKA Aesculapius; Alphonso, King of Castile; William de Loris ; Jean de Meung; Arnoldus de Villa Nova; Pietro d'Abano AKA Peter d'Apona; Albertus Magnus; St. Thomas Aquinas; Raymond Lull; John Cremer, Abbot of Westminster; Nicolas Flamel; Fulcanelli; Michael Maier; Sigismund Fugger;

Students: Comte de Saint-Germain; Henry Cornelius Agrippa;Franz Hartmann; Josephus Quercetanus; Philipp Homagius; Georg Zimmerman; Heinrich Nollius, mathmatician and leader of The Keepers of the Celestial Wheel; Jan Symonsz van der Beck; René Descartes; Johann Faulhaber, mathematician; Johannes Valentinus Andreae AKA Christian Rozenkrantz; Lorenz Lutz of Meran, last assistant; Alexander von Suchten; Abraham von Franckenberg; Jakob Bohme; Karl Widemann; Gottfried Arnold; A.E. Waite; Jolande Jacobi; Manly P. Hall; Jean Baptista van Helmont AKA Jan Baptist van Helmont; W P Swainson ; Denys Zachare; Friends: Albrecht Laski (1536-1603), Patron; Sigismund Fugger; Erasmus ; Ecolampidus; Enemies: Thomas Eratus; Galen; Author: The Hermetic and Alchemical Writings of Aureolus Philippus Theophrastus Bombast of Hohenheim, Called Paracelsus the Great, trans. by A.E. Waite, 2 vol. (1894, reprinted 1976), Franz Hartmann, The Life of Philippus Theophrastus Bombast of Hohenheim, Known by the Name of Paracelsus, and the Substance of His Teachings (1887, reprinted in The Prophecies of Paracelsus, 1973), several books on Surgery; Coelum Philosophorum (see http://www.alchemylab.com/coelum_philosophorum.htm); The Book of the Revelations of Hermes Concerning the Supreme Secret of the World (see http://www.alchemylab.com/concerning_the_supreme_secret_of.htm); Great Philosophies AKA Philosophia Magnea , 1567; De secretis secretorum theologiae aka On the Religious Speculation of the Most Secret of Secrets, 1531; Liber Mineralibus, written 1540, published 1588; The Treasure Of Treasures For Alchemists ; The Coelum Philosophorum Or Book Of Vexations ; The Book Concerning The Tincture Of The Philosophers ; Alchemical Medicine; Alchemy - The Third Column of Medicine; The Aurora of the Philosophers; The Book of the Revelation of Hermes; Concerning the Spirit of the Planets; Hermetic Astronomy; Paracelsus' Alchemical Catechism; Archidoxis of Magic

Organizations: the Teutonic Order; Comments: Sympathetic magick ;motto was "Alterius non sit qui suus esse potest" which means "Let no man belong to another that can belong to himself." Freemason; Magician ; Medical doctor; Alchemy; Everything in Nature was created for some Good (so he studied fungi, urine, etc}; Nature contains "signatures", so some medicinal leaves are shaped like the organs of the body they strengthen or heal; Resources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paracelsus; Writings- http://books.google.com/books?id=_Q0MAAAAIAAJ; http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/442424/Paracelsus; http://www.angelfire.com/ga2/splitskull2/index.html; The Invisible History of the Rosicrucians: the world's most mysterious secret society by Tobias Churton, 2009 ;http://darkbooks.org/collection/Paracelsus.html ; http://www.levity.com/alchemy/sendi.html; read some here - http://www.esotericarchives.com/solomon/archidox.htm ;