The prophecies of Paracelsus : magic figures and prognostications made by Theophrastus Paracelsus about four hundred years ago

1st pub. 1915.

Proem. Introductory. 1 Concerning Paracelsus. 2 On the prophecies of Paracelsus. 3 Preface of Eliphas Levi to the prognostications of Paracelsus. 4 Preface to the prognostications. 5 The predictions

'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, preceded his lectures by a solemn burning of the books of his illustrious predecessors Galen and Avicenna...[His] prophesies were first published in German in 1530 and enjoyed considerable popularity for about a century. Thereafter they fell into oblivion until rescued in the nineteenth century by the Kabbalist and Magician Eliphas Levi...The prophecies comprise 32 allegorical pictures each accompanied by a prognostication, a preface and an elucidation.'

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