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Paracelsus and the Three Principles
Paracelsus (1493-1541) – The father of spagyric medicine who believed in the healing power of nature’s three principles: sulfur (soul), mercury (spirit), and salt (body).
Paracelsus, born Theophrastus von Hohenheim, was a Swiss physician, alchemist, lay theologian, and philosopher of the German Renaissance. He was a pioneer in several aspects of the “medical revolution” of the Renaissance, emphasizing the value of observation in combination with received wisdom.
In the candlelit laboratory of 16th-century Basel, Paracelsus worked through the night, his hands steady as he separated the essence of healing plants. “The dose makes the poison,” he whispered, understanding that nature’s gifts required reverence and precision.This revolutionary physician discovered that every plant contains three sacred principles: Sulfur (the soul – its essential oils and active compounds), Mercury (the spirit – its volatile essences), and Salt (the body – its mineral foundation). Unlike his contemporaries who simply ground herbs into powders, Paracelsus developed the spagyric process – separating these three principles, purifying each one, then reuniting them in perfect harmony.His method created remedies far more potent than crude plant matter alone. Today, at Enchanted Earth, we honor Paracelsus’s wisdom in every bottle. Our spagyric mushroom extracts follow his ancient process, capturing the full spectrum of healing compounds through careful distillation, calcination, dissolution and cohobation – just as he taught five centuries ago. Next time we shall be introducing Maria the Prophetess (1st-3rd century) – An early female alchemist who developed distillation techniques still used today.
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