Selected writings

by Paracelsus

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Title Statements

Full title :Selected writings / Paracelsus ; edited with an introduction by Jolande Jacobi ; translated by Norbert Guterman.

Summary

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.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©1958.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Princeton University Press
Place of Publication:Princeton, N.J
Language:eng
Publication Date:©1958.

Notes

"Originally published in German as Theophrastus Paracelsus: Lebendiges Erbe, by Rascher Verlag, Zurich, 1972"--t.p. verso.

The Physical Object

Description:lxxi, 289 pages : : illustrations, facsimiles, 1 portrait ; : 23 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0691018766, 9780691018768, 0691098107, 9780691098104
oclc:on1275391222
LC Classification:B785.P23
Dewey Decimal:189.5

Foreword to the English edition, by C.G. Jung -- Preface -- Note on the Section Ornaments -- Parecelsus: his life and work -- Paracelsus: Selected Writings: -- Credo -- I. Man and the created world -- II. Man and his body -- III. Man and works -- IV. Man and ethics -- V. Man and spirit -- VI. Man and fate -- VII. God, the eternal light.