
, botanist
, alchemist
, astrologer
, and general occult
ist.
"Paracelsus", meaning "equal to or greater than Celsus", refers to the Roman encyclopedist Aulus Cornelius Celsus
from the 1st century, known for his tract on medicine
. He is also credited for giving zinc
its name, calling it zincum, and is regarded as the first systematic botanist.
Paracelsus was born and raised in the village of Einsiedeln
in Switzerland
.
All is interrelated. Heaven and earth, air and water. All are but one thing; not four, not two and not three, but one. Where they are not together, there is only an incomplete piece.
As you talk, so is your heart.
Belief and work, knowledge and action are one and the same thing.
Consider that we shouldn’t call our brother a fool, since we don’t know ourselves what we are.
God has given to all things their course and decided how high and how far they may go, not higher, not lower.
God, our Father, has given us the life and the art of healing to protect and maintain it.
He who conquers his enemy with meekness, wins fame.
He who wants to govern must have insight into the hearts of men and act accordingly.
If you have been given a talent, exercise it freely and happily like the sun: give everyone from your splendour.
In us there is the Light of Nature, and that Light is God.