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consumed / and brought to nothing. As far then as the soul
is concerned / since it is from God and is eternal / it does not die /
but travels to its place / before the death of Christ, those
who hoped for the Messiah original: "Messiam" and died in faith had their
preservation / just as the unbelievers had theirs. Now, after
the death of Christ / those who die in the Lord travel into Paradise /
to Christ and his own / as he said to the thief: Refers to the "Good Thief" crucified alongside Jesus. Today you shall be with me in Paradise. But those
who die in Satan / they travel into his keep /
until the Day of Judgment / when the damned will receive
their reward / and the believers their eternal joy /
which Isaiah in the 64th chapter and Paul in the 2nd
Epistle to the Corinthians, chapter 2, describe thus / that no eye has ever seen / no ear has ever heard / and it has never entered into the heart of any man / what God has prepared for those
who love him. This joy Theophrastus Paracelsus. calls a
gentle, quiet being / and an extract of all heavenly
joys / like a small pearl / where there shall be no earth / no fire /
no wind / but alone Eden / that is /
a garden of joys / in Christ / which shall be Paradise.
This I have / as far as was possible in haste /
briefly extracted from the first and other books of this Philosophy /
concerning the Natural and Heavenly Man / now I will
show the argument of the four Astronomies Astronomy: In Paracelsian thought, "Astronomy" is not just the study of stars, but the study of the entire relationship between the heavens (macrocosm) and the human being (microcosm)..
The first / which Theophrastus completed at Mährisch-Kromau original: "Märischen Cronau." A town in the modern-day Czech Republic where Paracelsus wrote his "Astronomia Magna." / in the year 1537 / on the 22nd of June / is the Natural Astronomy / what its nature /
work / power / and strength is / what it has to do with the Elements /
and all those things that come from them / what power it holds
over man and