Paracelsus
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Sep 17, 2026
Sajah PophamHOST
Uh, many people don't realize that Isaac Newton was an alchemist, and many of his discoveries heavily influenced-- probably wouldn't have happened if he had not-- did not have, uh, a knowledge and an understanding of the alchemical tradition.
Sajah PophamHOST
Of course, Paracelsus being a very key figure here in regards to alchemy and the reclamation of alchemy as a system of medicine.
Sajah PophamHOST
Uh, this is not just a way to manufacture gold.
Sajah PophamHOST
This is not just about the occult or the esoteric.
Sajah PophamHOST
This is about healing.
Sajah PophamHOST
And through that, he revolutionized medicine, right? Brought to the forefront co-- uh, different types of medicines using mineral elements, metallic elements, concentrated plant, uh, forms of plant extracts.
Sajah PophamHOST
The concept of chemical medicine really came from Paracelsus, which of course, you know, now we could say, okay, mixed blessing and curse there.
Sajah PophamHOST
Um- Sterile surgery techniques, Paracelsus, many progressions in medicine, including some important attributes in regards to what we would think of today as like the ethics of a physician, of how a physician really should cultivate virtue and that inevitably there is a spiritual undertone to the path of the physician, to the healer, the spirit of the physician themselves, but also the spirit of the people that they're healing and that that's important to recognize and honor as well.
JonathanHOST
In the centuries that have gone by since the Rosicrucian order was first formed, they have worked quietly and secretly.
JonathanHOST
aiming to mold the thought of Western Europe through the works of Paracelsus, Bohm, Bacon, Shakespeare, Flude, and others.
JonathanHOST
Each night at midnight, when the physical activities of the day are at their lowest ebb and the spiritual impulse at its highest flood tide, they have sent out from their temple soul-stirring vibrations to counteract materialism and to further the development of soul powers."
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EliseHOST
So all of these stories are of elementals.
EliseHOST
They're being told way before it was written down until a man named Paracelsus came along.
EliseHOST
He has a much longer name, but I am going to only call him Paracelsus because I can't.
HeidiHOST
well the nurse and me can only hear peristalsis which is when your
EliseHOST
body
HeidiHOST
your intestines but you know it's moving it's great let's just move on we don't need to hear his name again
EliseHOST
Okay.
EliseHOST
Paracelsus, Heidi.
speaker_2NARRATOR
The true pupil of any mystery school is far too modest to advertise the fact, he will scorn all titles or honors from men, he will have no regard for riches save the riches of love given to him by those whom it becomes his privilege to help and teach.
speaker_2NARRATOR
In the centuries that have gone by since the Rosicrucian order was first formed they have worked quietly and secretly, aiming to mold the thought of Western Europe through the works of Paracelsus, Bohm, Bacon, Shakespeare, Flood and others.
speaker_2NARRATOR
Each night at midnight when the physical activities of the day are at their lowest ebb, and the spiritual impulse at its highest flood tide, they have sent out from their temples soul-stirring vibrations to counteract materialism and to further the development of soul powers.
speaker_2NARRATOR
To their activities we owe the gradual spiritualization of our once so materialistic science.
Frank ShallenbergerGUEST
Something's wrong somewhere.
Frank ShallenbergerGUEST
So I went over to Germany and I subsequently learned what Paracelsus taught us like about 500 years ago was that the same molecule that causes one thing in a lower dose causes an entirely different thing.
Frank ShallenbergerGUEST
And Paracelsus was the first person to point out that it's the dose that determines the effect of a substance much more than the actual characteristics of the substance.
Frank ShallenbergerGUEST
In Germany, I learned that it's true.
Frank ShallenbergerGUEST
You can have a patient in oxidant stress and give them an oxidative molecule.
JulesPANELIST
And let's see, we have the Edict Mythologies, Adepts in the Western Esoteric Traditions, The Wisdom of the Knowing Ones, which is a Gnostic book, I think.
JulesPANELIST
Prophecies of Paracelsus, the Nag Hammadi, Balsanga Saga, Epic of Gilgamesh, Pista Sophia, the Aurelinda, Poetic Edda, the Eye of God.
JulesPANELIST
It's a whole treatise.
JulesPANELIST
The Witch's Hammer.
Thomas CopelandNARRATOR
But the cursory glance my father had taken of my volume by no means assured me that he was acquainted with its contents, and I continued to read with the greatest avidity.
Thomas CopelandNARRATOR
When I returned home, my first care was to procure the whole works of this author, and afterwards of Paracelsus and Albertus Magnus.
Thomas CopelandNARRATOR
I read and studied the wild fancies of these writers with delight.
Thomas CopelandNARRATOR
They appeared to me treasures known to few besides myself.
Thomas CopelandNARRATOR
Before this, I was not unacquainted with the more obvious laws of electricity.
Thomas CopelandNARRATOR
On this occasion, a man of great research in natural philosophy was with us, and excited by this catastrophe, he entered on the explanation of a theory which he had formed on the subject of electricity and galvanism, which was at once new and astonishing to me.
Thomas CopelandNARRATOR
All that he said threw greatly into the shade Cornelius Agrippa, Albertus Magnus, and Paracelsus, the lords of my imagination.
Thomas CopelandNARRATOR
But by some fatality, the overthrow of these men disinclined me to pursue my accustomed studies.
Eliza SwannGUEST
And the thought was that everything on earth sort of exhibits these behaviors just in different proportions, in that if you want to heal somebody or you want to affect a change in the laboratory, you'd sort of yank the proportions of the elements around.
Eliza SwannGUEST
So for example, if you're an alchemical doctor like Paracelsus and someone comes in who's shivering and has a runny nose, they're cold and wet.
Eliza SwannGUEST
So they're having a lot of water element and they're having a lot of earth element.
Eliza SwannGUEST
And so you would give them a concoction that was dry and hot.
Ben TuckerNARRATOR
He studied chemistry, mineralogy, entomology, botany, and medicine.
Ben TuckerNARRATOR
He doctored patients gratis with herbs and metallic powders of his own invention after the method of Paracelsus.
Ben TuckerNARRATOR
These same powders were the means of his bringing to the grave his pretty young, too-delicate wife, whom he passionately loved, and by whom he had an only son.
Ben TuckerNARRATOR
With the same powders he fairly ruined his son's health, too, in the hope and intention of strengthening it, as he detected anemia and a tendency to consumption in his constitution, inherited from his mother.
Sally HelmHOST
Another doctor had actually written this idea down a couple hundred years earlier.
Sally HelmHOST
Paracelsus, the father of toxicology.
Sally HelmHOST
He wrote this famous line that kind of sounds like a riddle.
Sally HelmHOST
What is there that is not poison? All things are poisonous, and nothing is without poison.
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