Paracelsus - His Methods of Healing

By Douglas M. Baker

Paracelsus - His Methods of Healing:

PARACELSUS was the most enigmatic writer and controversial figure in the history of Western medicine. They called him the "Prince of Physicians" and the "Luther of Medicine". 450 years ago his medical teachings and practices outraged the establishment, but they were the forerunners of Medicine today and of the Medicine to come.

Those who imagine that his medicine is a system of superstitions that we have fortunately outgrown, will, if they once come to know its principles, be surprised to find that it is based upon a superior type of knowledge that we have not yet attained, but into which we may hope to grow.

Paracelsus attempted to reform the professional code of medicine and audaciously followed this up with a supplement to the Hippocratic Oath taken by all physicians.

Dr. Baker, himself a medical doctor for many years, focuses in this writing on the healing principles Paracelsus gave us so that we may benefit from them today. This knowledge will help us in our quest to regain a more natural, holistic and less "chemical" approach to healing and health.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Baker eBooks Publishing
• Release date: Apr 18, 2022
• ISBN: 9781625690166

Douglas M. Baker

Dr. Douglas M. Baker. English born and raised in South Africa has done extensive scientific research into those hinterlands of the mind which one might call psi-semantics. He graduated in the Arts & Humanities in South Africa and qualified in medicine at Sheffield University (UK) in 1964. Having taught in the East End schools of London for 10 years, he began his tour of the Western world giving lectures and seminars in Esoteric Healing, Esoteric Anatomy, Esoteric Astrology, Esoteric Psychology, Esoteric Science and Metaphysics. He, more than any other, set in motion the trends towards alternative methods of medicine which have transformed that field in Britain today. As medical advisor to the De la Warr laboratories in Oxford, he undertook research into Biomagnetism and quantum physics their effects on the human aura and dark matter, producing the book by the same name in conjunction with George de la Warr. Through the years he has given more than 15,000 lectures and attracted people from all over the world to his Esoteric Science Festivals and International Summer Schools staged in America, Canada, England, Switzerland, Italy, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. His transformative experiences during the Second World War, when twice severely wounded, set the pattern for his life long investigations into the Powers Latent in Man. His extensive esoteric writings are said to be the largest collection in the world produced by a living author. He has written over 100 books, many of which have been translated into the 9 European languages at https://www.douglasbaker.com, and his list of downloadable MP3 audio lectures available at www.douglasbaker.org, include 500 live lectures given around the world and on a vast range of subjects. He has led the field in esoteric astrology, producing with a team, his magnum opus, a Dictionary of Astrology for the 21st Century in three volumes. This is in addition to the already existing 11 volume set of books on the same subject.

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Table of Contents

PARACELSUS - HIS METHODS OF HEALING

THE DEDICATION OF DOCTORS

Nature Does The Curing

Ethics vs. Corruption

SIGNATURES

Esoteric Significance

THE UNCERTAIN ARTS

Proof in the Science of Signature

Proof in Uncertain Arts

Holistic Concepts

Healing by Faith and Imagination

PARACELSIAN REMEDIES

Experience Is the Best Teacher

His Pioneering Insight

DISEASE AND ITS CAUSES

Karma and Disease

CONCLUSION

Footnotes

Bibliography

LECTURES

Appendix I

VISUALISATION

HEALING METHODS

1. Absent Healing

2. Microcosmic Visualisation

Appendix II

REQUIREMENTS OF A SURGEON

Appendix III

DOUBTS REPLACED BY TRUE PURPOSE

Appendix IV

PARACELSUS' MEDICAL ACHIEVEMENTS

PARACELSUS - HIS METHODS OF HEALING

by

Dr. Douglas Baker

M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., B.A., F.Z.S.

Copyright © 1986 Douglas Baker

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Introduction

Those who imagine that the medicine of Paracelsus is a system of superstitions that we have fortunately outgrown, will, if they once come to know its principles, be surprised to find that it is based upon a superior kind of knowledge that we have not yet attained, but into which we may hope to grow.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781)

PARACELSUS

"That man no other man shall own

Who to himself belongs alone."

The Motto Of Theophrastus Bombast Paracelsus

Paracelsus — Philippus Aureolis Theophrastus Bombast von Hohenheim—was the most enigmatic writer and controversial figure in the history of Western medicine. He was called the Prince of Physicians and the Luther of Medicine. Four hundred fifty years ago his medical teachings and practices outraged the establishment, but they were the forerunners of Medicine today and of the Medicine to come.

The question has often arisen as to whether Paracelsus had ever fulfilled the requirements of a medical school to entitle him to enter the ranks of physician with documented qualifications. It is doubtful. If he had, the medical school best qualified for such an honour would surely have been the one at Ferrara in northern Italy. It was here that he received his most serious instruction in the medical arts at the hands of teachers who were both famous for their skills and similar in outlook to himself. In nearby Florence were schools of Platonists, and their works were available in Ferrara. Paracelsus detested the Aristotoleans who were concentrated in Padua and who worshipped anatomy and its focus on the parts of the patient rather than on the patient as a functioning, biological whole.

Fragmented medicine with its dependence on the records of the ancient doctors was anathema to Paracelsus. Man was part of Nature, and Paracelsus put his faith in the healing forces of nature. The holistic medicine of today derives largely from his insistence that, for instance, the extraction of a tooth does not take away all the toothache. The cause of toothache lay in the whole man ... in his diet or in other circumstances. Paracelsus' own background in the teachings of the Cabala, his travels abroad, his access to numerous schools of thought and other faiths, all urged him toward seeing the patient as only a part of a much larger complex.

Paracelsus was happy at Ferrara and in the climate of thinking there. Given the chance he would have qualified there, but there is no proof of it in the medical school records which, for his year, are missing. It seems as if he was interrupted. In 1515 Francis attacked the Emperor's forces, and at Marignano, French artillery killed eight thousand Swiss troops. Northern Italy lay at Francis' feet, and Paracelsus, a Swiss-German, must have felt his position in Ferrara untenable. Paracelsus fled with others to Naples where the Emperor had allies.

This could well account for his not completing his medical studies or taking his degree at Ferrara. All is fair in love and war and, never having been in love, he may have felt cheated of his degree by the war and therefore entitled to assume the credentials.

Some say that his much revered teacher, Nicolaus Leonicenus, conferred a doctorate on Paracelsus. Certainly,