Swiss alchemist Paracelsus ( 1493 – 1541 ) uses chaos synonymously with element ( because the primeval chaos is imagined as a formless congestion of all elements ).

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.

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 ", 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.

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 ".

M. Colas considers that the lauburu is not related to the swastika but comes from Paracelsus and marks the tombs of healers of animals and healers of souls, i. e., priests.

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

In 1459 Pope Pius II endowed the University of Basel where such notables as Erasmus of Rotterdam and Paracelsus later taught.

Paracelsus ( 1493 – 1541 ), for example, rejected the 4-elemental theory, and with only a vague understanding of his chemicals and medicines formed a hybrid of alchemy and science in what was to be called iatrochemistry.

became the tri prima of the Swiss alchemist Paracelsus, who reasoned that Aristotle ’ s four element theory appeared in bodies as three principles.

Paracelsus saw these principles as fundamental, and justified them by recourse to the description of how wood burns in fire.

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.

Outside the Italian Renaissance, yet another major current of esotericism was initiated by Paracelsus, who combined alchemical and astrological themes ( among others ) into a complex body of doctrines.

A similar figure was the Swiss magician known as Paracelsus ( 1493 – 1541 ), who published Of the Supreme Mysteries of Nature in which he emphasised the distinction between good and bad magic.

The more extreme liberal movements began to challenge the role of authority in medicine, as exemplified by Paracelsus ' symbolically burning the works of Avicenna and Galen at his medical school in Basle.

Galenism's final defeat came from a combination of the negativism of Paracelsus and the constructivism of the Italian Renaissance anatomists, such as Vesalius in the 16th century.

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 word comes from Renaissance Latin gnomus, which first appears in the works of 16th Century Swiss alchemist Paracelsus.

Alternatively, the term may be an original invention of Paracelsus.

Paracelsus uses Gnomi as a synonym of Pygmæi, and classifies them as earth elementals.

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

Other books found in the Harmony Society's library in Economy, include those by the following authors: Christoph Schütz, Gottfried Arnold, Justinus Kerner, Thomas Bromley, Jane Leade, Johann Scheible ( Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses ), Paracelsus, and Georg von Welling, among others.

In 1567, Swiss physician Paracelsus suggested unidentified substance in mined ore ( identified as radon gas in modern times ) caused a wasting disease in miners, and in England, in 1761, John Hill made the first direct link of cancer to chemical substances by noting that excessive use of snuff may cause nasal cancer.

The origins of the movement can be found in Medieval astrology and alchemy, such as the writings of Paracelsus, in Renaissance interests in Hermeticism, in 18th century mysticism, such as that of Emanuel Swedenborg, and in beliefs in animal magnetism espoused by Franz Mesmer.

The use of Paracelsus ' laudanum was introduced to Western medicine in 1527, when Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, better known by the name Paracelsus, returned from his wanderings in Arabia with a famous sword, within the pommel of which he kept " Stones of Immortality " compounded from opium thebaicum, citrus juice, and " quintessence of gold.

" The name " Paracelsus " was a pseudonym signifying him the equal or better of Aulus Cornelius Celsus, whose text, which described the use of opium or a similar preparation, had recently been translated and reintroduced to medieval Europe.

The Canon of Medicine, the standard medical textbook that Paracelsus burned in a public bonfire three weeks after being appointed professor at the University of Basel, also described the use of opium, though many Latin translations were of poor quality.

Laudanum was originally the sixteenth-century term for a medicine associated with a particular physician that was widely well-regarded, but became standardized as " tincture of opium ," a solution of opium in ethanol, which Paracelsus has been credited with developing.

The element was probably named by the alchemist Paracelsus after the German word Zinke.

The 16th-century Swiss alchemist Paracelsus ( Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim ) believed in the existence of alkahest, which he thought to be an undiscovered element from which all other elements ( earth, fire, water, air ) were simply derivative forms.

Paracelsus believed that this element was, in fact, the philosopher's stone.

In alchemy in particular they were regarded as elementals, such as gnomes and sylphs, as described by Paracelsus.

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.

While originally hostile to Paracelsus, in his later career he took an interest in Paracelsian medical theory for which he experienced some hostility.

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

This is a parody of Paracelsus, inasmuch as Pope imitates the pseudo-science of alchemy to explain the seriousness with which vain women approach the dressing room.

Paracelsus ' work is known to have inspired Michael Faraday to prepare the first pure sample of colloidal gold, which he called ' activated gold ', in 1857.

The city had hosted the Council of Basel from 1431 to 1447, and, in 1460, a university was founded, which eventually would attract many notable thinkers, such as Erasmus or Paracelsus.

Frater Albertus Spagyricus ( Dr. Albert Richard Riedel ) ( 1911 – 1984 ); founder of the Paracelsus Research Society in Salt Lake City, which later evolved into the Paracelsus College.

Ehret was a proponent of the emerging back-to-nature renaissance in Germany and Switzerland during the latter part of the 19th century, which was inspired by writers such as Meister Eckhart, Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland, Nietzche, Goethe, Herman Hesse, Ernst Haeckel and Eduard Baltzer as well as the healing traditions of Roman and Greek philosophers such as Paracelsus, Empedocles, Seneca, Plutarch, Porphyry, Galen, Hippocrates, Socrates, Pythagoras, Plato and Aristotle.

In 2010, the Spanish publishing house M. Moleiro Editor brought out the first and only facsimile edition of Splendor Solis, a deluxe edition limited to 987 copies with a companion volume featuring the study in which Jörg Völlnagel demonstrates for the first time that the attribution of the text to Salomon Trismosin, the master of Paracelsus, is incorrect.