Theophrastus paracelsus biography of martin

PARACELSUS:  ESSENTIAL READINGS

Selected and translated by

NICHOLAS GOODRICK-CLARKE

DAS BUCH PARAGRANUM ()

They reproach me that my writings are not like theirs; that is the fault of their understanding, not my fault, for my writings are well rooted in experiment and evidence and will send forth their young shoots when the right May-time comes.  They have good cause to complain of my writings, for no one cries out unless he is hurt; no one is hurt unless he is sensitive, unless he is transient and impermanent.  They cry out because their art is fragile and mortal; what is not mortal does not cry out, thus they are mortal and they cry out against me.  The art of medicine does not cry out against me, for it is immortal and set upon such an eternal foundation that heaven and earth shall be shattered before medicine perishes.  So long as I am at peace with medicine, why should the ou