Paracelsus Quotes on God
Paracelsus, the Swiss-German physician and natural philosopher, understood God through the unity and sacredness of the created world, and the quotes gathered here express that vision. For Paracelsus all things form a single interconnected whole, since heaven and earth, air and water are all but one thing, ordered by a God who has given to all things their course. This conviction shaped his medicine as much as his theology: the human body houses Divine Wisdom, so that whatever does harm to the body ruins the House of the Eternal. Paracelsus also taught of an inner illumination, a Light of Nature within the human being which he identified with God. Drawn from his medical and philosophical writings, these passages present God as the source and bond of a living, interrelated nature, knowable through the study of the world and of the self.
Quotes
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“All is interrelated. Heaven and earth, air and water. All are but one thing; not four, not two and not three, but one. Where they are not together, there is only an incomplete piece.”
Paracelsus - Collected Writings Vol. I (1926) edited by Bernhard Aschner, p. 110 -
“God has given to all things their course and decided how high and how far they may go, not higher, not lower.”
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“God, our Father, has given us the life and the art of healing to protect and maintain it.”
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“We have Divine Wisdom in the mortal body.Whatever does harm to the body, ruins the House of the Eternal.”
Paracelsus - Doctor of our Time(1992) -
“Practice humility at first with man and only then before God. He who despises man, has also no respect for God.”
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“We should become angels and not devils, that’s why we have been created and born into the world. Therefore be and stick to what God has chosen you for.”
Paracelsus - Doctor of our Time(1992) -
“In us there is the Light of Nature, and that Light is God.”
Paracelsus - Doctor of our Time(1992)