The life and the doctrines of Philippus Theophrastus Bombast of Hohenheim : known by the name of Paracelsus / extracted and translated from his rare and extensive works and from some unpublished manuscripts by Franz Hartmann.

  • Hartmann, Franz, 1838-1912.
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©1932, 1945
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Credit: The life and the doctrines of Philippus Theophrastus Bombast of Hohenheim : known by the name of Paracelsus / extracted and translated from his rare and extensive works and from some unpublished manuscripts by Franz Hartmann. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tes and Aristotle, because he may have learned some modem opinions in regard to a few superficial things, or some modern inventions, with which the philoso¬ phers of old may not have been acquainted; but if our modem scientists know more about steam-engines and telegraphs than the ancients did, the latter knew more about the powers that move the world, and about the communication of thought at a distance without the employment of visible means. If the anatomist of to-day knows more about the details of the anatomy of the physical body than the ancients, the ancients knew more about the attributes and the constitution of that power that organizes the physical body, and of which the latter is nothing more than the objective and visible representative. Modem science may be successful in producing external ap¬ pearances or manifestations with which the ancients were not acquainted; the initiates into ancient sci¬ ences could create internal causes of which modern science knows nothing whatever, and which the latter will have to learn if it desires to progress much far¬ ther. There is no resting-place in the evolution of the world. There is only progression and retrogres¬ sion, rising or falling. If we falter at the door to the realm of the invisible, and dare not enter the temple where the mysterious workshop of Nature exists, we will sink still more into the mire of illu-