The prophecies of Paracelsus by Rider - 1974: Magic figures and prognostications made by Theophrastus Paracelsus about four hundred years ago.
by Rider
The prophecies of Paracelsus: Magic figures and prognostications made by Theophrastus Paracelsus about four hundred years ago.
by Rider
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Theophrastus Paracelsus, doctor, chemist, and mystic was born in Switzerland in 1493.
He is celebrated as the man who, on his appointment as town physician and lecturer in the University of Basle in 1526, preceeded his lectures by a solemn burning of the books of his predecessors Galen and Avicenna.
The prophecies comprise 32 allegorical pictures each accompanied by a prognostication, a preface and an elucidation. Paracelsus' images are usually obscure. It was as if he saw the future as a series of moving pictures on a film but was only able to describe them out of chronological sequence. Like other occult works of the period, the course of future events is never explicitly stated. It is up to the reader to use his insight and imagination to draw his own conclusions from the subtle hints that Paracelsus gives.
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- Edition Second
- Binding Paperback
- Publisher Rider and Company
- Place of Publication London
- Date Published 1974
- Keywords Prophecies Paracelsus Rider doctor chemist mystic