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1.0 out of 5 stars
It belongs in the time in which it was written, January 1, 2006
This review is from: Hermetic and Alchemical Writings of Paracelsus, Part 2 (Paperback)
Got them (both parts), glanced through and threw them both in the trash right there and then. The man wrote a treatise on the long life and yet he couldn't preserve his own to an old ripe age... Paracelsus is the name he assumed later in life - meaning superior Celsus (a Roman physician). That alone, in my eyes, warrants the treatment of his works in the way he treated the works of others before him. I have to give him - he was a prolific writer and some stuff he got right. But if you string words together randomly, after much writing you'll get something right.... for some this might be a very entertaining read but not for me. I can't stand mixing religion with science and his audacity in selling his thoughts/beliefs for facts knows no bounds.
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