212 PARACELSUS 



*' Good or evil influence comes down from the sun, 

 the moon, or the stars ; the action of the macrocosmic 

 influences stimulates the corresponding elements (the 

 Corjpora Microcosmi Astralia) existing in man into action. 

 The same element which produces Mars, Venus, or 

 Jupiter in the sky exists also in the body of man ; 

 because the latter is the son of the astral body of the 

 Macrocosm in the same sense as the physical body of man 

 is a son of the earth. To be a physician, it is not suffi- 

 cient to know the anatomy of the physical body ; you 

 should also know that of the astral body; you should 

 know not merely a part, but the whole constitution of 

 the Macrocosm and the Microcosm of man. Adam is not 

 the father of man, nor is Eve his mother ; they were both 

 human beings themselves. The first man was a product 

 of creation, and all created things constitute together the 

 Zimbus (Nature). Man is born from the Zimbus, and 

 still remains in it; the two, i.e., Man and Nature, are 

 one, and he who knows the anatomy of Nature knows 

 also the constitution of man. If a man gets sick, it is 

 not the eternal part in him which suffers, but it is his 

 Zimbus, which is composed of many hundreds of difierent 

 elements, which are all related to their corresponding 

 elements in the great Zimbus of Nature." 



" Nature (Heaven) is Man, and Man is Nature ; all 

 men are one universal Heaven, and Heaven is only one 

 universal Man. Individual man is the individualised 

 universal Man, and has his own individual heaven, which 

 is a part of the universal Heaven. If all children were 

 born at once and upon one point, they would all be con- 

 stituted alike, and be sick or well at the same time ; but 

 at the time of conception a differentiation takes place, 

 and each child receives his own individual nature, which, 

 however, still remains an integral part of the universal 

 nature of mankind. Thus, there are many points in a 

 circle, and each point constitutes a circle of its own, and 

 yet they all belong to the great circle, and as each little 



