The Sixth Part of the Books and Writings of the Noble and Highly Learned Philosopher and Physician Paracelsus

Catalog of Books

Previously, only summaries were available; now all that exists is presented.

137

From the autograph of Theophrastus.

1 On Witches and their Works, nine treatises 137
From the manuscript of another.

2 On the Demoniacal and the Obsessed 148
3 On Dreams and those who walk in their sleep 155
4 On Blood beyond death 158
5 On the Souls of men appearing after death 165
From the autograph.

6 On the Imaginative Virtue 168
Previously not printed.

7 On Characters 137
8 On Homunculi tiny human-like figures created through alchemy and Monsters 173. Item another small book: On Animals born from Sodomy 181

Know, reader, that the book On Sense and Instruments, as well as On the Time of Labor and Rest, printed in the previous edition alongside these, do not belong in this Philosophical Volume, but in another, which is named by Theophrastus: On the Blessed Life.

From the manuscript of D. Io. Montanus.

III. Occult Philosophy 185 In which it is treated: 1. On Consecrations 186. 2. On Conjurations 187. 3. On Characters 188. 4. On Spiritual Visions and Apparitions in sleep 190. 5. On the Earthly Spirits under the earth 193. 6. On the Powers of Imagination 196. 7. On Hidden Treasures in the earth 198. 8. How a person is possessed by the Devil 200. 9. How one should drive out devils 201. 10. On Magical Storms 203. 11. On the Abuse of the Magical Art 204

IV. On Images, that is, on all kinds of statues and figures 208

From the manuscript of another.

V. The Philosophy of Theophrastus, five other treatises: 1. On the Distinction of Time 222. 2. On the Generation and Preservation of the four Elemental Bodies 223. 3. On Flesh and Mummy an alchemical substance prepared from bodies 224. 4. On the Distinction of Bodies and Spirits 227. 5. On the Sleep and Waking of Bodies and Spirits 228.

VI. On the Foundation and Origin of Wisdom and the Arts, three treatises. 232.

Previously not printed.

From the manuscript of D. Io. Montanus.

VII. 1. On the Foundation of Wisdom and the Sciences 251.
2. One on those who walk in their sleep, etc. 257.
3. Two others on the Generation of Fools, ibid.

Catalog of the Writings of Theophrastus, contained in the Tenth Volume.

From the manuscript of D. Io. Montanus and others.

I. Sagacious Philosophy, or Great Astronomy, is divided according to the number of four kinds of Astronomies into four books: In the first book, the entire Natural Astronomy is described theoretically, that is, all works and arts that are accomplished in a natural way through the power and capacity of the Firmament, which God the Father placed therein after the first and ancient creation. Theophrastus divides these natural effects into two kinds. The first is that of those which man may practice and accomplish by his own art, skill, and knowledge, through the power, influence, and medium of the Firmament. Theophrastus describes nine of these works or arts, which he calls Membra Astronomiæ Limbs of Astronomy, or Scientias Astronomicas Astronomical Sciences, each of which again has its certain...