English Translation

often Paracelsus, full of suffering and hope, has sought in the stars the answer to his question. In them, who, far from all human beings, in great loneliness, draw their paths, God's greatness and eternity is revealed most clearly. With the stars, he feels his destiny. For man as a microcosm, the fate of the world also becomes human destiny. The laws of the universe become laws of me. The new position on nature and the cosmos also requires his commitment to religion and to God. Life is an abundance of wonders of the spirit. Everything is in flux, everything is eternal change, because everything is life. Life, however, is God's creative activity. Thus, the world is the great presence of God, and thus this earth is also inspired by God. In the beauty and glory of nature, he worships his Creator. In knowledge of nature he performs worship in the best and deepest sense. Thus nature and with it man is sanctified. For Paracelsus, nature is the ultimately valid and heart-deep bond. He has also laid down the law that God has put into nature in man, and he who lives according to these laws of nature lives morally. Thus, faithfulness to his own being becomes the most sacred duty and demand of this day. "He who remains faithful to himself does not fall. "This is the great moral law that gave us Paracelsus. He had the instinctive certainty that the voice of the heart is God's voice. He felt secure in space, in God, felt one with nature. Basically, Paracelsus experiences his worldview as a heroic and affirmative departure of God's reality in him, in nature, even in the whole world. God is not only the creator of the world, he is also the inner-world figure, the power of life and order. "All things are set in order." With this the world is good, just as man is good and "we come clean and chaste from the womb." But because all things are divine works, therefore the earth is nothing worth despised. Thus it stands in stark contrast to Christianity of its time. With Paracelsus confessing to the laws of life, he also professes to fight as the expression of the selfishness of life that we encounter everywhere. What is opposed to life must fall. What must fall, however, must be completely pushed. Thus it runs storm against all the weak and decadents. He was the first to oppose the body contempt of Christianity's front, which already pointed to the danger of the hereditary sick and demanded their destruction. But what is the meaning of life for Paracelsus, and what is man's surrender? "No one is free from work, no one is blamed by idleness." "The hands are created for work, not for blessing." He thus rejects the priests and monks. "They preach for money, they fast for money." "Bethaus is in the heart." He demands productive work in the service of the people and the state. In work, Paracelsus sees the meaning of life and in a socialism of action and not of the empty word. 29