Paracelsus abraham
- Attributed to Abraham van Dipenbeeck ('s-Hertogenbosch 1596 - Antwerp 1675).
- The focus of the present argument will concern the conceptual inter-relation between the Silesian nobleman Abraham von Franckenberg (1593-1652).
- Yet this tract with its four major species and nine sub categories of occult practices expanded and codified the magical thought which Paracelsus had explored.
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The Paracelsian medicine and theosophy of Abraham von Franckenberg and Robert Fludd
The Paracelsian medicine and theosophy of Abraham von Franckenberg and Robert Fludd by Urszula Szulakowska Paper presented at conference, Universal Reformation: Intellectual Networks in Central and Western Europe, 1560-1670, St. Anne’s College, University of Oxford, 21-23 September, 2010 (Cultures of Knowledge: An Intellectual Geography of the Seventeenth-Century Republic of Letters), http://universalreformation.history.ox.ac.uk//?page_id=30) The paper is presented without footnotes which may be cross-referenced with Urszula Szulakowska, The Sacrificial Body and the Day of Doom. Alchemy and Apocalyptic Discourse in the Protestant Reformation, Brill: Leiden (2009) The focus of the present argument will concern the conceptual inter-relation between the Silesian nobleman Abraham von Franckenberg (1593-1652), the chief disciple and biographer of Jacob Boehme, and the English medical practitioner and alchemist Robert Fludd (1574-1637). Fludd seems to have been influenced by Boehme and, in turn, to hav
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Chapter 2 The Paracelsian Impetus
Paracelsianism was named after presumably the most enigmatic physician of the sixteenth century, Paracelsus (real name, Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, 1493/4–1541).1 Paracelsus was one of the best-known physicians of the century preceding the publication of the manifestos, a key figure in the transformation of medicine, and an outlandish figure announcing imminent changes in the world. He is also the sole recent historical figure mentioned in the manifestos.2 In order to appreciate the full meaning of the general reformation and Paracelsus’ influence on the manifestos, it is necessary to introduce this physician as well as the movement he engendered in some detail.
Paracelsus was the son of physician Wilhelm von Hohenheim, who introduced Paracelsus to medicine from an early age onwards. His mother is presumed to have worked in the famous Benedictine monastery of Einsiedeln, and died when Paracelsus was still a young boy.3 In 1516, Paracelsus recalled, he received the degree of doctor in Fer
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