78 PARACELSUS 



to stop him, and for the true heaven which he lost offer 

 him a terrestrial paradise, illuminated by the light of her 

 love, whose origin is in heaven. 



The Lord is the same in woman as He is in man; 

 but males and females are not equals. They are con- 

 stituted very differently from each other, not only 

 according to their mental characteristics, but also in 

 regard to the whole of their bodily substance. Male 

 and female animals are made out of the same stuff; 

 but woman was not originally created; she was formed 

 out of a "rib" (a spiritual substance) of man, and is 

 therefore of a nobler and more refined kind of matter, 

 such as he possessed before the woman was formed from 

 him. Woman is made of the best and substantial part 

 of man, and is therefore the crown of creation. 



" A common boor thinks that the blood of a woman 

 is the same as that of a man ; but a physician, unless 

 he has been baptized with the blood of a boor, will see 

 the difference between the two " (Be Morh. Matric). 



Man represents the dark, fiery will, woman the light 

 love-will ; man the fire, woman the water. It is not 

 the divine man who is attracted by any woman, but 

 the tincture (nature) in him. The fiery element in man 

 seeks for the watery element in woman, and carries the 

 man along. Thus it is neither man nor woman who 

 longs for sexual intercourse, but nature in them. 



There is, perhaps, no doctrine which has done more 

 mischief than the misconstrued teaching about affini- 

 ties and soul-marriages ; because such a doctrine is 

 willingly accepted by the carnal mind. God did not 

 create souls in halves, nor can Adam find his Eve again 

 unless she grows within his heart. Man will never 

 find his celestial bride unless he looks for her within 

 his internal heaven, within " the Lord." Sexual cohabi- 

 tation, whether authorised or unauthorised by Church or 

 State, is merely an animal function. There is neither 

 absolute good nor absolute evil in marriage. It relates 



