2io PARACELSUS 



mixed with the life of the stars. Four elements are in 

 the world, and man consists out of four, and that which 

 exists visibly in man exists invisibly in the ether per- 

 vading the world. Where is the workman that cuts 

 out the forms of lilies and roses that grow in the field ? 

 and where is his workshop and tools ? The characters 

 of the lilies and roses exist in the astral light, and in 

 the workshop of Nature they are made into forms. A 

 blooming flower cannot be made out of mud, nor a 

 man out of material clay ; and he who denies the for- 

 mative power of Nature, and believes that ready-made 

 forms grow out of the earth, believes that something can 

 be taken out of a body in which it does not exist " {De 

 Caducii). 



The power of sight does not come from the eye, the 

 power to hear does not come from the ear, nor the 

 power to feel from the nerves; it is the spirit of man 

 that sees through the eye, and hears with the ear, and 

 feels by means of the nerves. Wisdom and reason and 

 thought are not contained in the brain, but they belong 

 to the invisible spirit which feels through the heart and 

 thinks by means of the brain. All these powers are 

 contained in the invisible universe, and become manifest 

 through material organs, and the material organs are 

 their representatives, and determine their mode of mani- 

 festation according to their material construction, because 

 a perfect manifestation of power can only take place in 

 a perfectly constructed organism, and if the organism is 

 faulty the manifestation will be imperfect, but not the 

 original power defective " (Be, Viribtos Memhrorum). 



The animal intellect differs from the human intellect 

 especially in that the animal can see only the vehicle, 

 but the human intellect discovers the principle mani- 

 fested therein. For this reason those of our would-be 

 scientists who only see external effects, and cannot see 

 the principles therein, have only an animal intellect, 

 however well trained it may be. 



