Ens Seminis of Paracelsus

 

Ens Seminis of Paracelsus

(Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim)

Victor. Arturo. Cabello. Reyes.

''Paracelsus developed a chemical- or rather, alchemical-vision of the world that encompassed the theory and practice of medicine and astrology.'' (1)

For the master Paracelsus= (Lutherus medicorum), everything comes from a universal germ or chaos sulphureosale maercurialis that is a representation of a creative solar force.

Man's spiritual and creative essence comes from the highest emanation of God.

Paracelsus believes that sickness and health are only possible if we control the astral forces restored by the Arcana=remedies containing virtues.

Of course, those astral forces, which in turn are the soul-essence of man, are formed by means of astral and ethereal influences coming from the 'soul of planets, stars, and especially from the 'astral body' of the planet.

Undoubtedly, it is evident that alchemy = 'pillar of medicine' and astrological wisdom in the practical and experimental preparation of medicines, oils and compounds = (iatrochemistry-chemiatria) have in the master Paracelsus one of their best exponents.

We can affirm, Paracelsus embodies the magus-theurge's = 'divine work' = ritual magic and his way of facing the divine forces of "astrum in corpore".

Consequently, the celestial firmament corresponds and coincides in man and his personal cosmic arcane, invisible and secret.

Alchemy in man begins in his Astro physiological and digestive process = ''Alchymia microcosmi''.

Since man is astrological microcosm and firmament in his body = Astrum-Sydus.

Simplifying the facts, for the master the essence of secret remedies = Arcana is the true secret of alchemy and its purpose, the manufacture of Arcana to be properly directed to achieve attack diseases.

"No one can transmute any matter unless he has transformed himself."

(Paracelsus)

In many respects Man is quintessence of all elements and miniature of the conglomerate of energies emanating from the sun.

The philosophical occulta of the master is the correct knowledge and application of occult forces, analogies and celestial virtues, of theurgic nature, present in the natural order.

In addition, there are other worlds parallel to it, populated by forces and entities = planetary spirits and angels – coming from "otherness."

It is worth emphasizing: The Curse of Eden is "the signature of God" expressed in the "Tintura" of the disease of Eden.

For the Paracelsian each plant has a sympathetic relationship between the macrocosm-microcosm, the particular constellation and the organism.

That happens in every plant and earth star.

Curiously, the soul intuitively perceives powers-virtues of the "Signature" thanks to being part of the "medicinal astronomy" found in internal parts of the human body.

The universe = macrocosm is reflected in the constitution of man = microcosm, thanks to the foundations or pillars of his medical-speculative system = Philosophy-astronomy-alchemy. (2)

As we have seen, Paracelsian philosophy rests on the ternary of faith-prayer-imagination, whose primary objective is to make man=''to be a real Man.''

The Ens seminis is like a ladder whose rungs go from the most vulgar = first step to the 7th = refined and purified-carried by alchemy to its extreme sublimation-, by "terrestrial astronomy."

Moreover, all astral influence is part of a complex system of alchemical procedures of nature and its arcana.

Let us remember that the ''monarcha medicorum''=Paracelsus dictated his teachings -like Ramon Llull- and his books and manuscripts were published at the end of the sixteenth century.

The man between analogies and correspondences is intimately linked to the interrelation and astral emanation of generative forces of the macrocosm-microcosm deposited in the Tria-prima and the book of Nature = Librum Naturae.

They are forces of solar emanation since the firmament exists in man = Astrum in corpore.

''The Paracelsians seem to have agreed that the font of life was the heavenly spirit, which was found in the sun.''

(Allen G. Debus)

There is a heavenly firmament dwelling in man himself with his planets, conjunctions, oppositions, and exaltations that we must constantly be vigilant about; it is the solid influence of the ASTRA on him.

We can say, there is deposited in man a great "Arcane", cosmic, secret and invisible that is only possible to access through the art of "microcosmic alchemy" and its speculative analogies within a highly practical science of transformation; Immersed within the Astro physiological structure of the visible human corpus.

''The course of heaven teaches the course and regime of Fire in the Athanor.'' =Alchemical furnace. (3)

In the macrocosm there is a "spermatic solar fluid" that potentially inhabits the microcosm = Man, similar to the liquor of life = Liquor vitae comparable to the ethereal fluids inherent in the hidden psycho-somatic nature of man.

However, that seminal liquor is something beyond the vulgar semen or fluid sperma of man.

Theophrastica Sancta!

It is a universal sperm or solar seed of the cosmos =aura seminalis contained in the 'liquid of vulgar semen'; But it's more than that. (4)

It is Light of nature and flow of spiritual vital energy, fifth essentia that is extracted by means of 4 Elements and that dwells in the depths of the heart and its powerful Lumen naturae.

The aura seminalis is the product of the emanation of that cosmic power or Liquor Vitae.

It is visible and elemental = vulgar and invisible semen and super elemental = astral.

This is fundamental so as not to confuse the vulgar semen or seed of man, with the principle of Universal Tincture.

''The sperma merely serves as a vehicle, in the same sense as the body of man is a vehicle for the manifestation of his interior spirit.'' (5)

Ens seminis is in a certain way a formative and potential power inherent in matter as a manifestation of a dual essence; in the language of Adam the Original Androgyne.

The whole organism its powers and systems contribute in stages to the production of Ens seminis and its essences are contained by means of the Liquor of Life seminal germ of All.

The Macrocosm produces through solarization a First Fluid that similar to the Spirit of God of Genesis moves in the primordial waters; vivifying and nurturing All.

So that this universal fluid is necessary to achieve distillation-sublimate-subtle thanks to the Archasius or Archeus = fire-heat interior vulcan possibly located in the lower belly and alchemist stomach.

But: the alchemist has the obligation to know how to read the book of Nature = Textus libri Naturae.

(Naturphilosophiae)

''This semen, however, is not the sperma or the visible seminal fluid of man, but rather a semi-material principle contained in the sperma, or the aura seminalis, to which the sperma serves as a vehicle.'' (6)

The Astro-interior is invisible sacred fire and in that same sense it should be said that it facilitates the alchemical process of transformation and spiritual ascension. Archeus=inner vulcani= Secret Fire and mysterium magnum.

Otherwise, it is: Lower astronomy=''God hath put his Tabernacle in the Sun.''

(Psalm: 18:5)

For the scholar Walter Pagel the first Paracelsian matter merges with the power of the Verb-Logos-Hermetic = The Kabbalist Word and its various tendencies and expressive modalities. (7)

Therefore, the world for the Paracelsian masters is like an egg: "... heaven is like a shell that separates earth from heaven, where God dwells, just like the eggshell."

"The yolk corresponds to the lower sphere, the clear to the upper; the yolk is the earth and the water; the white, the air and the fire.''

(#8)

However, the Great Arcanum is Solar = Essential fire that is worked on the AZOTH stone with the force of Mercury through the Son of the Macrocosm = Lapis in a practical-experimental science of spagyric iatrochemistry within a complex botanical and biochemical pharmacopoeia Paracelsian.

For this reason, thanks to distilled oils and diluted ingredients-metals-, assimilated in adequate and controlled dosages between correspondences of the human body and celestial signatures.

However, the alchemical experience of the contradictory is a dialectical confrontation fundamental to reach the Totality; germ of the Unity of the All.

Thus, the higher and spiritual are demonstrable correlations of Ens seminis of the Universe.

Ens Seminis of Paracelsus

Victor. Arturo. Cabello. Reyes.

Bibliography:

1. Antoine Faivre, Renaissance Hermeticism and Western Esoterism.

2. Volume medicinae paramirum, 1520c.

3. Paracelsus, Paragranum.

4. Archidoxia medicinae, Basel, 1570.

5. Paracelsus, by Generatio Hominis.

6. Franz Hartmann, The Life and Doctrines of Paracelsus, p.75.

7. Walter Pagel, Paracelsus, An Introduction to Philosophical Medicine in the Era of the Renaissance.

8. Paracelsus, Paragranum, 1530.