The Revolutionary Break in Philosophy, Astrology, Medicine & Magic | Introduction to Paracelsus pt I
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- Paracelsus was a true visionary, single-handedly leading a revolution in medicine, alchemy, philosophy and magical practice. Yet, despite his decisive importance and celebrated status in Scientific and Occult history his mountain of literary works go virtually unread outside a small cadre of specialists. In the first of a multi-part series we are going to dive into the authentic works of Paracelsus to uncover what led to his break with past theory and practice, his theoretical and practical philosophy of alchemy, medicine and magic and the power of his influence through the centuries. In this first episode we provide some important background and explore his decisive early text the Paragranum. In that text Paracelsus will reject previous theory and practice to re-establish medicine on four new pillars: Philosophy as Nature, Astronomy as Arcane Power, Alchemy as Perfecting Reality and Virtue as Christ-like Redemption of the human being.
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Recommended Readings:
Aureoli Philippi Theophrasti Bombasts von Hohenheim Paracelsi ... Opera Bücher vnd Schrifften - archive.org/details/aureoliph...
Weeks (trans) - Paracelsus (Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, 1493-1541): Essential Theoretical Writings - 978-9004157569
Anything by Andrew Weeks
Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke - Paracelsus: Essential Readings - 978-1556433160
Moran - Paracelsus: An Alchemical Life - 978-1789141443
Pagel - Paracelsus: An Introduction to Philosophical Medicine in the Era of the Renaissance - 978-3805535182
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Theological anarchism? Oh man!
I have been watching your pod cast since the beginning its interesting watch the evolution your thoughts of the esoteric and exoteric in the beginning you didn't seem to believe now i can see it in your eyes that you are sifting trough the bull shit and seeing the truth . Bravo !
I remain just as much a materialistic as ever. This stuff is interesting but not in any way veridical.
Thank you for the education. I had only heard fragments of this person, but your extended video really put things together. 💖
“I like big books and I cannot lie” my intellectual mind in a millisecond flipped to utter hilarity mode and I almost choked on my drink🤣🤣🤣
Your channel is amazing.
I’ll be rendering a monetary token of appreciation very soon…It won’t be big bucks because I’m old, ill, and poor but it’ll buy you a coffee or a beer and will be proffered to you with love and respect.
Sledgemeister Magnificento🙏❤️🔥🙏
I can’t imagine Justin dropping the f bomb properly can you? If I saw it I’d have to suspect it was an A👁 simulation 😉😆 Gawd bless him 🥰@@sandygrungerson1177
Absolutely wild that such a prolific man is hardly remembered, let alone accurately. Really looking forward to this series!
It really is a pity - he's pretty amazing
The poop curses make him more memorable now! 😂💩
@@RhoArtMagic Despite the centuries that separate us from him, we can always connect on the eternal humor of poo.
More like purposely buried in history. Smh
Mr. Bombastic, tell me fantastic! Maybe check out Einsiedeln n its abbey w „Black Madonna“ n also go for a hike there if u ever go to Switzerland.
As someone who spent a lot of time studying Thomas Müntzer and the peasant revolt 'When your strategy is "God will save us" stay home' made me laugh way harder than is appropriate.
I'm team Muntzer as the day is long, but....yeah
me too
The apparent star of this episode isn't Paracelsus...it's the poop jokes.
Well, where's the fun in these topics were they NOT speckled such creative potty~mouthed name calling!?!🤔 😅🤙💜🖤💫
I just find it funny that saying someone is full of it goes so far back. 😂
"I am like a ripe sh*t, and the world is a gigantic assh**e. We will both probably let go of each other soon." -- Martin Luther
Way back in the late 1970s, here in Australia, we had a very tough tv quiz show called 'Mastermind'. The presenter would first ask each contestant (very difficult) general knowledge questions then they went through a 'special subject' round. I remember one contestant's special subject was the life and work of Paracelsus. After watching this, as a rebellious 14 year old, I was hooked. Paracelsus became a personal hero of mine. I spent years hunting down books about him or even articles, all of which in the pre-internet era, were well nigh impossible to find. In English class in 1975 I wrote a creative writing story about homunculi and even named my cat Azoth... btw '' Kakophrastus' in Greek, (scatological allusion aside) literally means 'bad language' or 'bad speech'. Great video Dr Sledge.
Thank you for your time, effort, and dry enthusiasm! I honestly can’t believe this content is available freely to us mortals. I’m looking forward to what is coming next!
Alchemy is fun
How ironic. I just got back from Basel and visited the Pharmacy Museum, which is in the home Paracelsus shared with Erasmus. There is a nice bust of him there too. It is interesting he was at the pinnacle of his power when Pluto entered Aquarius; which is where we are about to do again.
Well, it actually already did (by the tropical zodiac, anyways). Due to it moving so slowly, it will enter and retrograde back into Capricorn several times before it stays in fixed air.
@@nevisysbryd7450 Yes, we are witnessing just the appetizer.
The Buddhists say consciousness is a sense organ for thoughts, which is consistent with my experience. Here we have imagination as a sense organ for so-called arcane forces, also consistent with my experience with my understanding of arcane. Next, here we have self-recognition as the restorative power of the divine.. well I don’t do any “divine” but I do think self-recognition is restorative because my life experience led to loss of self… and regaining that sense was restorative. It is just wonderful to have articulated what I might have managed to,articulate in about ten years or so. What a brilliant set of remarks that dr sledge pulls from the muddy paracelsian exposition. Really impressive. Thank you!!!
Wake up bro, new Esoterica dropped 😊
I was in tears as I read Parapvnk scrolling up the screen when it finally hit me what it said.
After watching this video, I went back to reading Moby Dick, and Ishmael starting talking about Paracelsus. Weird coincidence? Thanks, as always, for the informative and amazing videos, Justin!
What if I told you I'm actually reading Moby Dick for the first time myself?!
Holy book-moly! 😱😱😱😱 That Vol. 1 1616 edition is AWESOME! Absolutely fantastic! And no! I cannot believe you were able to acquire such a gorgeous tome for less than the Brill edition! That is absolutely crazy! Oof...
Sometimes you get lucky at auctions
I can’t believe the way he is handling it like some common cookbook found at a yard sale 😳
I could see Paracelsus on an informercial at 3 am hocking books about WHAT THE MEDICAL ESTABLISHMENT WON'T TELL YOU
But wait, there's more !
@@TheEsotericaChannel that might actually be: "But Waite, there's more ..." because as we all know by now, Waite wasn't keen on his name! If I'm hesitant on commenting on esoteric topics beyond my pay grade (opposite problem actually...), I just think of Waite going on ahead, that builds something that future generations can then improve on, even fix, and actually properly contextualize better!
I am so excited for the rest of this series. Paracelcus is one of those esotericists that I feel like I should know more about, but couldn't tell you a whole lot about (other than his awesome name). The other thing I know about our friend is that his name makes an appearance in the first Harry Potter book. He has his very own chocolate frog card, for those who are interested in that.
Thank you as always, Justin. I hope you enjoyed Wolves in the Throne Room and Blackbraid when they were in your neck of the woods. 🤟
Wow. I've never heard of Paracelsus but now I feel indignant that he hasn't had a full Netflix series devoted to him. Six seasons and a movie!
After a long night of drinking I always need a couple Alka-celsus, which is certainly an alchemical miracle if you have a horrible headache.
Damn, I love the "I love big books and I cannot lie", this goes straight into my mixtape
The comparison to Punk... just one more reason I love this channel!
Thanks for the lectures your making a 18 year old nerd 🤓 happy
Man standing in the middle between terrestrial and celestial spirits is a common model across native Siberian and South American traditions. I'm intrigued! Thank you for attempting to make Paracelsus accessible!
So glad you're covering Paracelsus. He was a strange narcissist but he was pretty brilliant. Some of his work seemed to include holistic medicine (understanding the whole person, what they ate, where they lived, etc.). And I think an episode on Mummy-mia would give you a quick cannibalistic ABBA vibe (All Hallow's Eve is coming_.
Paracelsus is the owner of the greatest full name of all time
Verily
You know shit about to be real when yah boy uploads a part 1 😆
Omg! Just burst out laughing in the middle of my neighborhood listening to this.
"Devil's poop"
Some of us never grow up...
If I translated that stuff literally this video would get demonetized - silly paracelsus
@@TheEsotericaChannel love it so much! Thanks for always making these guys human!
Of course, otherwise it's just all so sanctimonious and boring
@@TheEsotericaChannel exactly! That's a huge reason why I've learned so much from your channel. Thanks for keeping it real! 😄
Dr. Sledge making me rethink my major so I can do the research that will help him create accessible, scholarly content here on CZcams…for free.
You should pick your major with your future in mind otherwise you'll end up making weird videos for CZcams ;)
@@TheEsotericaChannel On my way to bring you literature about the influence religious beliefs and esoteric knowledge has had on urban planning throughout history 🫡.
@@TheEsotericaChanneldon’t threaten me with a good time, dear doctor
We still talk about Paracelsus in toxicology, but really just for 'All things are poison, and nothing is without poison; the dosage alone makes it so a thing is not a poison.' It's an important concept and pretty much holds up.
I first heard of Paracelsus in Thomas Moore’s Care of the Soul. Looking forward to learning more about this fascinating figure.Thanks Dr J!
Justin: There's a reliable English edition, good news and bad news.
Me, instantly: It's published by Brill, isn't it?
Yep... it was Brill.
Yes. That's basically always bad news.
My first thought was it was going to be published by Brille
I think there is one series many could thank for let them know about Paracelsus: Full Metal Alchemist (Hagane no Renkinjutsushi 鋼の錬金術師) by Hiromu Arakawa 荒川 弘.
@ 09:20, “one of the most comprehensive works […] is finally available… Good news and bad news there…“ oh man, I’ve watched this channel long enough to know exactly what’s coming in for a landing on Runway Brill. 😫
#1: THE most exciting episode to date, I am so looking forward to more!
#2: In your bio you indicate you grew up in Mississippi, where I also spent the first part of my childhood, and yet this is the first time I have heard any trace of Southern accent in your speech. Just a bit, when you were talking about learned men describing the origins of the poop that they were. I am just a little bit delighted that your Southern shows up when you discuss philosophers throwing shade.
#3 I am completely delighted that you describe Paracelsianism as ‘punk’. So looking forward to the continuation of this series!
I'm deeply grateful for your work and super happy that you will publish more about Paracelsus. I'm a truth seeker and support the approach of holistic healing as a shaman and cosmic healer. I actually live in Nuremberg and can tell you, that there is now a Paracelsus University existing, a private medical school 😊
Welcome - now that he's safely dead we can all celebrate him! ;)
TY I found his expulsion from nuremburg quite distressing and it warms me to hear what you told us about his school of medicine nowadays.
That book! OMG! It's beautiful! That first page! That illumination! That font! It is FANTASTIC!
(I admit to collecting books on alchemy just for the awesome artwork. It's really fabulous. And weird - but that's what makes it fabulous!)
Great timing again. I'm writing about Philip K Dick's idiosyncratic reading of Paracelsus this month.
Thanks for what you do and for your honesty.
How did I find myself just learning about Paracelsus and also across your page as you begin a series about him… lots of things are falling in line
Medieval big Farma, that is new.
Just started my formal education back up and currently taking a class on the Philosophy of Science, been thinking about researching Alchemy as protoscience and thought about digging through your channel for inspo. Crazy timing!
“Devil’s Poop” 💩💩 had my rolling laughing doc 😂🤣😅😭 great video sir 🫡🫡
Thanks for your work!
I am absolutely thrilled he is covering Paracelsus!!
Great video. That opening section about Thomas Muntzer was intruigung.
I'm reading through the works of the English writer Thomas Nashe, and in his The Unfortunate Traveller, I think he depicts the quelling of that rebellion.
Nashe also mentions Paracelsus in that novella (something about the hilt of Paracelsus's sword containing spirits) as well as mentioning Luther, Agrippa, Erasmus and other figure of the time. Nashe even makes Agrippa a character in the story, riding along with the protagonists and summoning images of people for them.
Anyways thanks for your work on Paracelsus, it's helping with my understanding of Elizabethan literature.
Nashe's relation to western esotericism is interesting to me: he's constantly quoting from Agrippa's De Incertitudine, and seems to make a defence of John Dee in the early 1590s.
I knew Paracelsus's bibliography was large and sprawling, but didn't realize that it was second only to Luther for the 16th century. Crazy.
Yeah, I don't know what this fact isn't more well known. It's absolutely bonkers.
Thanks! And WOW..! Just Wow!!!😶🖖🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾🤗
This is nothing short of thrilling.
Your humor was on point in this episode and you flipping through that compendium was probably the best sound ever!
The timing of this topic is fantastic! I'm actually giving a lecture next week at the Festival of Science in Genova on the topic of Paracelsus, his vitalistic alchemy, and his influence on the development of early modern chemistry, medicine, and farmacology. So imagine how delighted I was to see this video posted on your site and I'm really looking forward to the rest of this series devoted to Paracelsus. Thank you so much!! 🙂
Thanks for all you do with ESOTERICA!
It's priceless!
I love how entertaining the good Dr. Makes history... specific history but still history
Wow!! This information is so wild, yet resound with me. As within, so without... you are what you eat, etc. Looking forward to this series very much! 🎉
Dr Sledge you read my mind ! Thank you thank you, this is exactly what I craved 💟💟💟 thank you for everything you do sweet Dr Sledge!!!
"When your strategy is 'God will save us', stay home." Brilliant!
This first episode was super intriguing and I can’t wait for the rest of the series! I was surprised just how similar Paracelsus was to Aristotle (I mean it make sense, they were both mega fan-boys of Hippocrates and his Humor Theory🤷🏻♀️🤭)
What I never knew from watching this video, was the relationship between the Arcana and Paracelsus. I actually didn’t even know the real meaning behind the word “Arcana;” the only thing that I thought that word came from was from Tarot; how there are 22 Major Arcana cards in the Tarot divination. Maybe you could do a video on the history of tarot, like near Halloween? I seriously cannot wait for your Halloween videos (I don’t really like Halloween, so I like to distract myself with vids like yours that go into the history, philosophy and sociology of Halloween and witchcraft) ☺️
I have always loved paracelsus and am glad you chose to share your understanding of him on this platform. Not enough people know about this absolute titan and field polyfather.
- Oh *yay*, the 16th century's answer to Claude Levi-Strauss.
- Not the first time Waite's botched a translation, at least this time it doesn't sound like it was out of spite.
But Waite, there's more...
Facinating video. I asked Bard about Aureoli Philippi Paracelsi's influence on Theosophy and Madame Blavasky : "I'm not able to help with that, as I'm only a language model." So yes, lots of room for research, there.
Thank you Doctor
I really hope Arun Shei Films is already storyboarding that film idea of yours.
;)
“Thank Paracelsus” - Newt Scamander
I want to live in the musical intro sequence.
The historical use of mercury to treat syphilis suddenly makes a lot more sense...
Brill also published Weeks' new translations of Jacob Boehme. Also the cost of a mortgage payment.
yep...damn brill
Thanks!
l love your big book. You must be thrilled to have it.
I can't deny
Great episode and love the greater movement of reform during that period and his idea of looking at life as the macro to the micro. Had no idea Martin Luthor was such a prolific writer.
Paracelsus aka Mr. Boombastic
💯
Mr. Fantastic
I loved the "beard gap" and laughed so hard that the "i like big books and i cannot lie".
So glad you made this video! I have been wanting to learn more about Paracelsus but as a 9 to 5 sort I haven't had the opportunity to dig into the morass. EDIT: After the initial ecstatic comment...and having finished the video...this was super well done. I am going to have to watch this again to absorb everything. Fantastic once again Esoterica! Looking forward to the future vids!
\m/ Yeah! thanks so much for this one - very excited for more as well
Always look forward to your videos ❤
22:50 Your discussion of Paracelsus’ hermetic fractal cosmic unity is brilliant. Your understanding is so rich that you are able to give this intuitive grasp of cosmic unity a clear description. And contrasting it with the chain of being model neatly settled my understanding.
But what is meant by “from the limbus to the matrix”? I don’t understand the use of limbus here.
The blurb alone is epic, Dr Justin Sledge! 🎉 📖 📚 From his rap name Bombastus P, to your awesome mention of his break, line drawn in the sand or intellectual dispute/rap battle (collab nudge) with Ibn Sina, aka Avicenna! 🎉 Only now further discovering the man in essence that began primarily through magic practitioner author Frater Acher (whose latest esoteric book review website paralibrum's subject is Arthur Green's enthralling Guide to the Zohar, which I had wanted to further ask you, with your deeply inspiring and encouraging talk on learning the Zohar, about his Seekers of the Face, and therefore revisit your episode on the I will say the celestial Body), as well as magician author and open source practice curriculum creator Josephine McCarthy, I am enthralled to dive in!
" 'Cause I Wanna be Alchemy!" - P.T. Bombastus (probably! 🎉) I will assert that: the best humour is a sense of humour! I would like to latinize that as a pseudo-Paracelsian tattoo! Macrocosm ≠ microcosm! 🌌 Arcane astronomy! As above, so below? When you know you'll hop back onto rewatch, with ✏️ 📝 ✍️ pen & paper n notes in 📓! A further philosophical underpinning for praxis! I think this moment onward 30:00 is so 🔑, with our modern view, on Alchemy. I like this guy almost as much as as I like and greatly appreciate Dr Justin Sledge, I will say the Pseudo-Paracelsus or Neo-Hermes Trismegistus! Yeah, I'm with that pushback on Luther! Thoughts abound, I wonder how this plays into epidemics and even pandemics and plagues of the time that even occurred up to the time of Alchemist Newton! I look forward to that future Esoterica episode on Paracelsian milieu that to me foresaw I'm just gonna say (SPOILER UPON SPOILER) um a Charlton Heston movie that's NOT Planet of the Apes, nor Omega Man, nor Ten Commandments, but costars an actor from the latter! Wow, that imagery is not going away anytime soon! Pretty epic culmination that only lights up the imagination and desire for learning! Waiting with bated breath, and hop onto Paracelsus episode on Sigils (with a "j")! Meanwhile, your 📚 book recommendations are a boon on top of your already epic work and video library of enthralling topics! I will must put up soon! 🍻 kudos in the meantime! ILL, archive, and your links, including invaluable treasure house sefaria, to the public go far in democratizing esoteric knowledge, I think as Paracelsus might have it! I love that frontispiece and the word! Pitchfork and torches, indeed on Brill with that note! The affront to learning! Tear down the gates! 📖 ! Thank You, Dr Justin Sledge! 🎉 🌌 📖 📚!!! (workshopping your esoteric name!) 🎉 🌟 🔭 🌳 🌲 🌴 🌌 📖 📚!!
Pardon my haste, I misattributed, and so: 🎉 Seekers of the Face (a wondrous work from its blurb alone) is written by Professor Melila Hellner-Eshed, through Stanford University Press! It was an inspired hop! And the book by Arthur Green is Seek My Face (an enthralling tome, from its topic intro), that I think, both tomes, need to be read by all beginner aspiring practitioners of hermetic Qabalah because the historic depths and spiritual edifying heights of Kabbalah are in themselves a treasure house beyond treasure! 🎉
I'm also staring into that storybook painting of the city of Nuremberg! Both pondering DnD and childhood stories... 🎉
Women's medicine being distinct is to this very day an actual insight, especially in today's too often prevalent inexcusable 20's-50's style, longstanding patriarchal dismissal of women's pain overall! A little bit of Paracelsus goes a LONG way! Just maybe not too much unfettered, unbridled polemical pepperings!
What Paracelsus and his detractors would have done with tweets!
I have to get my hands on that book. Not now, but eventually. Wanna make my own version of Neo4j, and really cross-reference it and many other texts.
Good one! Can't wait to learn more. Hope you got some lunch. I think i heard your belly growling toward the end there.😋🤘
Ha you totally did ! On a cut and hunger pains are a struggle!
Let’s goooooo! This is going to be an amazing series
Im so in love with this video 😍. Thank you!
Personally, I would say punk is The Sex Pistols and The Clash, but that's just getting started obviously. On a philosophical level, to me punk was the beats 40 years later with more drugs. I am glad I got to listen to that in college when the music wasn't a decade old.
What an amazing lecture! Thank you Dr.Sledge
I'm so glad I subscribed to your channel. The amount of learning that I have enjoyed can not be put into words. Thank you for sharing this fantastic and fascinating information
YAY! im so glad for this episode
I like the quick disclaimer before I can write a comment. It’s probably the best disclaimer I’ve ever read :)
Of course, alchemy is not only about making elixirs out of plants to heal the body. Yes, working with the plant kingdom is one of three paths. The other two are the mineral kingdom (metals) and the animal kingdom (blood and bones). You have to master all three.
You are hilarious. I just laughed so hard I alchemizamed!!! I nominate my niece and nephew for the staring roles in your upcoming production!!!
Super excited for this series!
Hello, I love watching your channel!
At least 4 parts of material about Paracelsus, great! This is a very interesting topic.
28:01 Yes, that was exactly what I was thinking about! There's some time now that I'm thinking of Hegel simply as a less pedantic alchemist.
I'm so excited for corpse medicine! Yes! My body is ready!
Thanks for all you do!
Love that first print!
Dang dude, your content is phenomenal. You've definitely earned a subscriber from this girl. This is just the very first of your videos on the guy and I already feel like I have a much better grasp of just what his Brand of Alchemy was all about, and can see how modern scientific method and debate spawned out of his revolution. Thank you for this, its so much better than any other video Ive found about the guy. Im writing a high fantasy novel right, and wanted to get a better idea of alchemical philosophy and...yeah this has definitely given me some incredibly powerful inspiration for that story. Again, thank you! ~
love this channel, really appreciate the deep dives with the research
Excellent, thank you!
That book at the end is epic
Great content as always,
Love your videos, Justin! Thank you for making academic knowledge on this available for free.
Just saw this ep! Can't wait for pr 2!
This is hard core.
If this was a Whats Happening!? episode, it would be the one where Rerun bootlegged The Doobie Brothers. This is the Soy Bomb Bob Dylan performance. This is the Turkey Drop episode of WKRP in Cincinnati. This is the Tiki idol/Hawaii episode of The Brady Bunch.
This is Adam Weishaupt spitting mad rhymes about perfectibilism at an audience full of Methodists with Adolph Freiherr Knigge all, "The khabs is in the khu, not the khu in the khabs, I got mad frop and Slack like my name is Bob Dobbs."
This is a Roman Catholic making the 33rd degree in the York Rite, riding the goat all like, "Excommunicate me, I dare you" to the Pope. Boaz, Jachin. pass the Ma-ha-Bone!"
This is doing fat lines of alkahest with Hunter S. Thompson off of Harvey Spencer Lewis's ass.
This is giving Choronzon a noogie and crossing The Abyss *in a golf cart* while blasting Maiden's "Wasted Years" and *not* consuming anyone else's bodily fluids, eating a manna taco.
This is like the musical bits of Atalanta Fugiens played by KRAUTROCK LEGENDS: MAGMA.
This is like pulling down the 1977 edition of Advanced D&D's Monster Manual down off the shelf, only to find that *you're in it.*
This is hard core.
I look forward to more Paracelsus, because Paracelsus, is *metal.* Plants. I mean plants.
wonderful video! Thank you so much!!
Your illustrations are superb, as always.