For Paracelsus and Johannes Baptista von Helmont this was the seat of the archaeus or " life spirit ," and it assumed a crucial importance in the practice of German mesmerism as well.

As a young man, Frankenstein is interested in the works in alchemists such as Cornelius Agrippa, Paracelsus, and Albertus Magnus, and he longs to discover the fabled elixir of life.

Largely retiring from public life, Hargrave resurfaced when he was commissioned to write the entry on Paracelsus for the Encyclopædia Britannica ( Hargrave had published The Life and Soul of Paracelsus in 1951 ).

Albertus is also mentioned, along with Agrippa and Paracelsus, in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, in which his writings influence a young Victor Frankenstein.

The archangel of fire is Michael, the angel is Aral, the ruler is Seraph, the king is Djin, and the fire elementals ( following Paracelsus ) are called salamanders.

The archangel of air is Raphael, the angel is Chassan, the ruler is Aral, the king is Paralda, and the air elementals ( following Paracelsus ) are called sylphs.

The archangel of earth is Uriel, the angel is Phorlakh, the ruler is Kerub, the king is Ghob, and the earth elementals ( following Paracelsus ) are called gnomes.

A gnome is a diminutive spirit in Renaissance magic and alchemy, first introduced by Paracelsus and later adopted by more recent authors including those of modern fantasy literature.

The result is a sweeter spirit, and one that may have possessed additional analgesic / intoxicating effects-see Paracelsus.

Theophrastus Phillipus Auroleus Bombastus von Hohenheim ( 1493 – 1541 ) ( also referred to as Paracelsus, from his belief that his studies were above or beyond the work of Celsus-a Roman physician from the first century ) is also considered " the father " of toxicology.

* March – Paracelsus is appointed as town physician of Basle.

Paracelsus is credited as the first to make mention of an unconscious aspect of cognition in his work Von den Krankheiten ( translates as " About illnesses ", 1567 ), and his clinical methodology created a cogent system that is regarded by some as the beginning of modern scientific psychology.

Paracelsus, the father of toxicology, once wrote: " Everything is poison, there is poison in everything.

The word " silphid " or " sylph ", first seen in the sixteenth century in Paracelsus ' works, refers to any race of spirits inhabiting the air and is described as mortal, but lacking soul.

Paracelsus believed in the Greek concept of the four elements, but he also introduced the idea that, on another level, the cosmos is fashioned from three spiritual substances: the tria prima of mercury, sulfur, and salt.

The origin of the Paracelsian invented word spagyrici from the Greek: Spao, to tear open, + ageiro, to collect, is a neologism coined by Paracelsus to define his spagyric type of medical-orientated alchemy ; the origins of iatrochemistry no less, being first advanced by the Swiss physician.

" 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.

Swiss alchemist, astrologer, and physician Paracelsus ( 1493 – 1541 ), on the other hand, rejected the idea that abnormal behaviors were caused by witches, demons, and spirits and suggested that people's mind and behaviors were influenced by the movements of the moon and stars.

Opodeldoc is a name given by the physician Paracelsus to a sort of liniment which he invented, or at least bestowed this name on.

The name is believed to have been invented by Paracelsus from Switzerland, who modelled it on similar words taken from Arabic, such as ‘ alkali ’.

Paracelsus ' own recipe was based on caustic lime, alcohol, and carbonate of potash.

When on a rescue mission with Vincent to save Catherine from Paracelsus, Winslow is killed by Paracelsus ' minion Erlik.

Paracelsus, who was called the " Luther of Medicine ", describes these mystics sages as " persons who have been exalted ( verzueckt ) to God, and who have remained in that state of exaltation, and have not died (...) nobody knew what became of them, and yet they remained on the earth ".

Victor Frankenstein, eldest son of Alphonse and Caroline Beaufort Frankenstein, builds the creature in his laboratory through methods of science ( he was a chemistry student at University of Ingolstadt ) and alchemy ( largely based on the writings of Paracelsus, Albertus Magnus, and Cornelius Agrippa ) which are not clearly described.

Jay's other non-animation roles included Paracelsus on the 1987 CBS series Beauty and the Beast ; Minister Campio on Star Trek: The Next Generation ; and Lex Luthor's villainous aide-de-camp Nigel St. John in Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman.

* Publication of the Chirurgia Magna of Paracelsus, a translation into Latin of his work on surgery, Die grosse Wundartzney ( 1536 ), in Basel, allowing its wider dissemination throughout Europe.

The treatise purports to quote Paracelsus on the point that " The light of the soul, by the will of the Triune God, made all earthly things appear from the primal Chaos.

He published several pieces bearing on medicine, astrology and alchemy, and attacking the system of Paracelsus.

His Kleine Schriften contains valuable criticisms on Paracelsus and Giordano Bruno.

From 1942 to 1944, he taught psychology and clinical psychology, also managing the Paracelsus Institute, where Bender originally planned to make research on the subject of astrology.

The 16th century alchemist Paracelsus was said to have achieved the Azoth, and in portraits of him carrying his sword, the inscription " Azoth " can be seen on the pommel or handle.

Partly inspired by Mary Shelley's friend John Polidori and largely based on Renaissance physician and botanist Paracelsus, it became Thesiger's most famous role.

Paracelsus is an impact crater on the Moon's far side.

By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to Paracelsus.

His works include several books on esoteric studies and biographies of Jakob Böhme and Paracelsus.

In 1535, Paracelsus, the great practitioner of nature cures, spent some time in St. Moritz.

Paracelsus viewed the universe as one coherent organism pervaded by a uniting lifegiving spirit, and this in its entirety, Man included, was ' God '.

Paracelsus, born Phillippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim ( 1493-1541 ) in Salzburg, Austria, a 16th-century Swiss-German alchemist, discovered that the alkaloids in opium are far more soluble in alcohol than water.

In his dying breath, Paracelsus quotes " At last, you are my son.

Erasmus, Paracelsus, Daniel Bernoulli, Jacob Burckhardt, Leonhard Euler, Friedrich Nietzsche, Eugen Huber, Carl Jung, Karl Barth, Hermann Peter, and Hans Urs von Balthasar are among those associated with the university.

Such ideas greatly influenced mediaeval religious thought and are visible in the Renaissance medicine of Paracelsus and Servetus.

According to Paracelsus, the Three Primes or Tria Prima are

Undines ( — a wave ), also called ondines, are elementals, enumerated as the water elementals in works of alchemy by Paracelsus.