English Translation

12a "All things are set in order" Paracelsus Daraclesus was one of the most passionate and demonic leaders II of the German people, and therefore he touches us so deeply humanly. Through ups and downs, through joy and suffering, through reproach, slander and misery, but also through power and glory, his way leads him. But he has always remained a lonely one. He could not find a home anywhere. Early on, his hiking begins, which becomes his destiny. Unsettled, he travels through the world, through almost all of Europe, searching for the last secrets of nature. He listens to the simple people; he listens from the forest farmers, coals and old women to their knowledge. He sits with the shepherds and quacks and learns from them. In storms and weather strikes he develops his ideas. In rain and snow he, a restless wanderer, wandered through the German countryside, only accompanied by his art, the medical profession. But that was his destiny and mission at the same time. Only in death did he find his rest, as he once called himself. In 1541 he died in Salz-burg, 48 years old and far too early. The simple people did not want to see that this great physician was no longer alive, that he could no longer come to him to get help with him in distress and sickness. But his thoughts and ideas have survived the centuries and have been more alive than ever before in our presence. The knowledge that Paracelsus, this Swabian physician and seeker of God, has gained is manifold. His principle is that only nature can give a living answer to the many questions that the human heart fills. He despises the scholastic skewer citizens and "polster doctors" who take their wisdom from books on which the dust of the centuries lies. "The creatures are the letters, and whoever wants to explore nature must kick his books with his feet. Scripture is explored by the letters but nature from country to country." His clear and bright eyes are his strongest weapon. Paracelsus broke with the old methods of science. His way of knowledge of nature was completely new and he tmalic. Had God been the starting point of all creation, then it becomes nature and with it man. He is filled with the awe of nature, which is the bearing power of all life. In it he saw everywhere measure, order and law, and he found that the same divine power lives and works everywhere in the stone at the stream as well as in the stars in the sky, in the plant on the meadow as in man. But man is nothing other than the world in a small, microcosm. In this way, however, he is also subject to the same divine and eternal laws as they are alive in nature. The same laws, according to which the stars draw their paths, the plants grow and the animals fight for their lives, also apply to man. Thus, every human being is subject to unrelenting connections and laws of life. Human laws and laws of nature are identical. But whoever comes out of these eternal orders of life- 28