English Translation

He was not a spectator of his time; he was a co-worker and co-creator, and he was Deutşcher. Here, too, he was quite straight. He was the first teacher to read German at a university in 1525. He confessed proudly: "I am a philosopher of the German kind." But not only German was his confession, German was also the Faustic urge for truth, the deep thirst for the knowledge of the world, the longing and the urge for the infinite and eternal and the passion with which he advanced to the depths of being. German was his life and his work, German was the advancing spirit that wandered everywhere to gather new experiences, German his militant attitude was. He was one of those who always sailed in the storm and who were not comfortable if they did not wrestle. The dominant forces of his fruitful work were the awe of the eternal laws of life, the love of nature and man. If Paracelsus has long since been forgotten, the problem that this lonely "preacher of existence" has fought for a rich and yearning-full life will remain; the call to faithfulness to one's own being and the knowledge of the truthfulness of nature will remain. But this realization is most clearly expressed in his words: "All things are set in order." Friedrich Oesterle WORDS OF PARACELSUS Mas eats happiness differently, than keep order with the mischief of nature? Alas is the misfortune, than against the order an entrance into nature? I have our order in nature. Hippocrates cites two examples by which all disharmony can be understood, namely: to be too full and too much empty, that is, to be full of nature, to-morrow empty of nature. That is no good. For one should keep a measure in number and weight, that the void has a balance with fullness. But one thing surpasses the other, that is against nature, nature does not tolerate it. For if we consider nature as it is in its mesen, then all things must be in order, in number, in weight, in measure, in circle, etc., and nothing beyond, neither over nor over. Mo which is considered nit, there is everything surrounded. Blessed is he that walketh to the right measure, and needeth not the help of man, but walk in the Meg which God hath given. 31