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Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim – referred to as Paracelsus, 1493 - 1541. In his era the man from Hohenheim stood as an erratic rock in the sea, on which common medicine, theology and alchemy surged and broke upon. Born in central Switzerland he lived his early years in Carinthia, by the side of his father – “who never left me” – and studied medicine in Ferrara. He was introduced to the nature of substance during his 11 years of working in the copper mines of Schwaz/Austria, where he gained knowledge of minerals and metals and an art of healing that soon became known all over Europe. His successes in healing were based on his studies and utilisations, perceptions and adaptions of the unseeable elementary powers in man, the earth and cosmos. He abominated conceit as much as superstitiousness; he despised knowledge from books as deeply, as he developed a seven-staged way of schooling for therapists and alchemists with abandon. He never had a permanent home and was proud to have been born at the feet of a Black Maria in Einsiedeln/Switzerland, and he defined himself as a disciple/son of the Queen of Sheba; meaning the old Phoenician Mysteries. Dozens of writings were left as his heritage; his last belongings were left in a wooden chest, while until today his Marian, Pauline and Christological writings of meditations still await revival. Not appropriated by any party, but much courted by all, as much combatted as admired, Paracelsus died aged 47 under unsolved circumstances as foreseen by himself; as a genius who assigned his entire life to the guiding star of total independence and thus reached immortality: ALTERIUS NON SIT QUI SUUS ESSE POTEST (Let no man be another's who can be his own).
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