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Paracelsus - Essential Theoretical Writings
Paracelsus - Essential Theoretical Writings
Aries Book Series
Texts and Studies in Western Esotericism
Editor
Wouter J. Hanegraaff
Editorial Board
Jean-Pierre Brach Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke
Advisory Board
Roland Edighoffer Antoine Faivre Olav Hammer Andreas Kilcher Arthur McCalla Monika Neugebauer-Wlk Marco Pasi Mark Sedgwick Jan Snoek Michael Stausberg Kocku von Stuckrad Gyrgy Sz,/onyi Garry Trompf
VOLUME 5
Paracelsus (Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, 14931541)
Essential Theoretical Writings
Edited and translated with a Commentary and Introduction by
Andrew Weeks
LEIDEN BOSTON 2008
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Heinz Schott's Unpublished Writings & Miscellanea
My paper
„‚Invisible Diseases‘ –
Imagination and Magnetism: Paracelsus and the Consequences“ .
was read at the Symposium on
„Transformation of Paracelsianism 1500 – 1800: Alchemy, Chemistry and Medicine“
organized by the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine
in Glasgow, September 17, 1993.
This paper was published:
Heinz Schott, „‚Invisible diseases’—Imagination and Magnetism: Paracelsus and (he Consequences,“ in The Man and His Reputation, His Ideas and Their Transformation, ed. Ole Peter Grell (Leiden: Brill, 1998), 309-21.
Heinz Schott, Bonn
„Invisible Diseases“ – Imagination and Magnetism:
Paracelsus and the Consequences
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Some scholars of Paracelsus‘ work showed him
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Heinz Schott's Unpublished Writings & Miscellanea
He is a Distinguished Research Professor of Religion and Ethics in the Georgetown University Theology Department and Professor Emeritus of Bioethics in the Georgetown University School of Medicine. He is the Director of the Project for the History of Care.
http://care.georgetown.edu/Who%20is%20Warren%20T_%20Reich.html
In his Article „History of the Notion of Care“ (1995) Warren T. Reich studies the gender aspect outgoing from the ancient Roman mythological figure of Cura. He investigates the legacy of this divine figure reflecting Heidegger’s and Kierkegaard’s philosophy among other positions.
http://care.georgetown.edu/Classic%20Article.html
But the most essential point he missed: Cura or care is a character of Natura or nature, which was personified traditionally as a nourishing and healing female figure: Alma mater, Goddess of health, divine mother. Nature even resembled Maria in t