Pensamiento Espiritual-Alquímico del Maestro Paracelsus

Pensamiento Espiritual-Alquímico del Maestro Paracelsus ''I'm different: don't let that bother you''=''I am different: let this not upset you'' (Paracelsus) The influences of the currents of thought of Paracelsus = ''equal of Celsus'' (Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim) in Renaissance esotericism and its corresponding Kabbalistic-Hermetic affinities are fundamental for the understanding of the formative structure of Rosicrucians, Freemasons and Gnostic-Hermetic alchemists. Master Paracelsus taught a method of life and individual vision of inner life. A ''Thought Form''. 'The Rose Cross doctrine (according to the Confessio Fraternitatis)-much medicine, some theology (little law)-is Paracelsian. That Paracelsus shared traditions with esoteric minded people of the Elizabethan era is again indicate of how it came to be that Freemasons' and Rosicrucian works would meet in private libraries.' (1) 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-theourgos = 'divine work' = ritual magic and his way of facing the divine forces of "astrum in corpore". The celestial firmament corresponds and coincides in man and his personal cosmic arcane; invisible and secret. Alchemy in man begins in his astrophysiological 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 if he has not transformed himself." (Paracelsus) However, the Tria prima (Three First Things) turn out to be active principles of creation and essential constituents of the reform of his thought. Pillars together with the knowledge of earth and water, astronomy-astrology and alchemy. Es la Cadena Áurea que procede de sólidas influencias del Neoplatonismo y doctrinas estoicas de 'ciclos cósmicos'. 'These three chymical ''principles'' provided a terrestrial, material trinity that reflected the celestial, immaterial Trinity as well as the human triune nature of body, soul, and spirit'. (2) Es la debida y lógica afirmación de tres principios o teoría de los tres niveles de la Realidad=Hypostases de procedencia Neoplatónica. Coincidencias y analogías del magno universo en cada una de las partes del cuerpo humano, ya que el cielo es homo maximus y Corpus syderium y sus influencias astrales llegan a polarizar en el cuerpo humano=materia y astro. En consecuencia, la tríada microcósmica se compone de mercurio=espíritu, azufre=alma y sal=cuerpo. Vemos por tanto, que el hombre en su constitución interna y los pulsos de mismo se nutren y alimentan de constantes pulsaciones rítmicas del universo. En todo caso, Paracelso asimila de sus maestros espirituales(Trithemius) conocimiento de astronomía-astrología estoico-platónica, donde el alma desciende a través de esferas de orden planetario, asimilando así sucesivamente 'impurezas' y densidades ocultas de los cuerpos astrales. Cabe añadir que es todo un sistema en el cual la alquimia se expresa a través de la simbología alquímica particular y sus correspondientes símbolos planetarios.(3) Estimamos probable que internamente el hombre=microcosmos contiene en sí principios activos inherentes y esenciales de las sustancias. Por consiguiente, el arcanus del hombre es toda dote, toda semilla o forma perpetua que opere en él. Es gracias al Archeus=poder de la Sustancia Ünica desde el Iliaster= (spiritus vitae o spiritus mercurialis) encontrándose en todas las cosas como dispensador-compositor de Todas las Cosas incluyendo la naturaleza humana. Por lo demás el Iliaster y sus tres formas resultan ser el primer caos de la materia en todas las cosas. Dentro de la estructura formal del pensamiento espiritual paracélsico encontramos la concepción de Pansophia cósmica y ''astronomía magna'' realizable en el microcosmos. ''Una gran energía sólo surge de la correspondiente tensión de grandes oposiciones.''(4) Puede observarse con toda claridad que el Corpus Paracelsicum es arte curativo de múltiples niveles y visión espiritual de tradiciones y corrientes de Ciencia Talismánica-Pentacular; es el ''recorrido del Camino de la Arcana''. Amuletos y Sellos son programados con la energía teúrgica del magus-theourgus. Y es interesante observar que Dios como Gran Médico del macrocosmos instruye al Médico del microcosmos en los poder ocultos de cuadrados y sellos planatarios y en la posibilidades de recepción del curso histórico del cielo. Más importante todavía nos encontramos de forma recurrente en un gran acontecimiento cósmico. Debe entonces ''el cielo''tomar presencia y entrada en nosotros para así estar preparados para que el ''cielo tome corporalmente forma en nosotros. Paracelso considera el ternario como gran misterio de Dios emanando de la fuente de luz astral, A.Z.O.T.H.= (del árabe=al-zauq=mercurio). 'This Stone, says the Masters in Alchemy, is the true Salt of the Philosophers, which enters as one-third into the composition of Azoth. But Azoth is, as we know, the name of the grand hermetic Agent, and the true philosophical Agent: wherefore they represent their Salt under the form of a cubical stone'. (5) Most notably, Master Dr. John Dee receives this intellectual and current line of tradition from the magus-theourgos Abbot Trithemius. 'The ideas of Paracelsus and other alchemical thinkers of antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the early modern period were well known to Dee. Alchemy was one of Dee's lifelong passions''. (6) In his Mortlake library, Dee had 157 copies in 92 editions of Paracelsus' work. '... the lavish provision of 157 copies of ninety-two editions of Paracelsus' various works'. (7) Paracelsus prescribes medicines of herbal components and mixtures of herbs and essential oils. (the metal is reduced by fire-vulcanis obtaining the Quintessence) It is the search for the origin of the essential causes of lumen naturae, where life is destined to be complete and full. "We are among the things like the sound of bells in a forest at night, and if their cause remains unknown to us it is because we do not walk in Light". (Paracelsus) To approach a compression of his thought, we must understand that we see things only as their "receptacle" since the true element is found in the spirit of life that grows in Everything similar to the soul in the body of man. There is a seed-womb of all things which is mother-womb-womb and grave. Similia similibus curantur = like is cured with like. (Paracelsus) Through the practical alchemical work of the Arcana it is possible to restore the celestial harmony that must exist between the internal "astrum" and its corresponding affinity in the celestial external star. (Paracelsus, Opus Paramirum and De Matrice) In all probability they are alchemical processes for the optimal elaboration of therapeutic substances or arcane of "secret remedies". Let us remember the theurgical importance that Paracelsus attributes to the Saint John's wort plant, being considered an arcane of universal medicine of great effectiveness. The most remarkable thing is how the plant is used for effective combat the ''phantasmata'' = diseases that have no body or substance. In all probability the use of the 'Haselwurn' (half snake and half human) to combat other diseases and psychosomatic ailments. ''Paracelsus was said to have eaten such a snake, and ''that is why when he went out into the fields the herbs spoke to him which evils and illnesses they were effective for''. (8) Likewise, Paracelsus gathers in his written thought a 'bombastic' mixture of words of his own origin, some in German and others in Latin (Latin dog according to E.J. Holmyard). The existence of a oneness pattern of the heaven-earth cosmos is centralized in a cyclical-astrological adjustment of solid solar influences, the planet-stars and the life inherent in the Alkahest; Universal solvent in which substances are reduced to their elemental form and nature. ''Paracelsus believed that sickness and health are controlled by astral influences, and that sickness can be driven out and health restored by 'arcana' or secret remedies''. (9) El Arcanum es un secreto incorporal e inmortal de las cosas y solo es posible conocerlo por experiencia y práctica. Es una terminología de naturaleza secreta recibida del tutelaje de Trithemius entre formas criptográficas y hermético-alquímica , numerológicas de expresión iniciática no vulgar. (10) Podemos decir que arcanum es la virtud interior de cualquier sustancia que puede ser transformada y asimilar sus virtudes intrínsecas curativas. (11) Las enfermedades son producidas en el ''astro interior'', ''estrella inferior'' o ''firmamento interior'' es su origen y curso. Pensamiento Espiritual-Alquímico del Maestro Paracelsus Víctor. Arturo. Cabello. Reyes. Bibliografía: 1. Tobias Churton, Freemasonry the Reality, p.225. 2. Lawrence M. Principe, The Secrets of Alchemy, p.128. 3. R. T. Wallis, Neoplatonism, p.p.16,21,32-38. 4. La Archidoxia medicinae (Basel,1570) and C.G. Jung, Paracelsica, p.46. 5. Albert Pike, Morals and Dogmas, p.775. 6. Deborah Harkness, John Dee's Conversations with Angels, p.199. 7. William Sherman, John Dee, p.43. 8. Claudia Múller-Ebeling, Christian Ratsch and Wolf-Dieter, Witchcraft Medicine, p.6. 9. E. J. Holmyard, Alchemy, p.171. 10. Paracelsus: Mikrocosmos und Makrokosmos: Occult Schriften; Edited by: Helmut Werner, 1989 and Noel L. Brann, Trithemius and Magical Theology, p.p.181-185;175-183. 11. Martin Rulandus, The Alchemy Collection: A Lexicon of Alchemy, p.36.