The Life and Doctrines of Philippus Theophrastus, Bombast of Hohenheim; Known by the Name of Paracelsus (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 Excerpt: ...the same state. They are then really at those places, and may remember what they have seen, although they were there without their physical bodies; for their minds were active at such places, and the mind is the real person, not the body that is asleep." a If a pregnant woman forms an image in her mind 1 If we do not think that which we speak, our words will be empty talk. He who thinks many things disperses his power in many directions; he who thinks only one thing is powerful. This passage refers to the excursions of witches on the Harts Mountains and other places, often spoken of in the witch trials. Many supposed witches were burnt to death for having confessed that they bad attended at such meetings. and projects it by her desire, it will impress itself on the body of the child. "If, for instance, a woman in her imagination strongly conceives of a snail, and then puts her hand upon her knee, then will the image of the snail appear upon the knee of the child. Her will (although unconsciously) acts in this way like a master, bidding a painter to paint him a snail. Wherever the touch of the hand goes, there will be the image." (" De Virtute Imaginativa.") "If a person dies, and seriously desires that another person should die with him, his imagination may create a force that may draw a menstruum (vehicle) from the dead body to form a corpus, and it may be projected by the impulse given to it by the thought of the dying person towards that other, and that other one may die. Such may be especially the case if a woman dies of puerperal fever,1 and if such a woman wishes that the whole world should die with her, an epidemic may be the consequence of her poisoned imagination." "Fear, terror, passion, desire, joy, and env...