Gantenbein Urs Leo
University of Zurich, Switzerland.
Ambix. 2020 Feb;67(1):88-99. doi: 10.1080/00026980.2020.1723944. Epub 2020 Feb 24.
Paracelsus was not only a reformer of medicine with a preference for medical alchemy, but also emerged as a radical church reformer. However, he only rarely used the imagery of alchemy as a parable for theological salvation. Fire as the driving force for every alchemical process was also suitable as an image for the purification of souls. A central idea of alchemy, to transfer a substance from its still impure original state into the purified final state, was very much in line with Paracelsus's doctrine of the Last Supper, according to which the mortal human who had descended from Adam is to be brought to a new birth through baptism with the Holy Spirit. As an alchemist, Paracelsus was keenly interested in the transfiguration of Christ, which he first explained alchemically, but later magically, probably according to the model of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola.
帕拉塞尔苏斯不仅是一位偏爱医学炼金术的医学改革家，还成为了一位激进的教会改革家。然而，他很少将炼金术的意象用作神学救赎的比喻。火作为每个炼金术过程的驱动力，也适合作为灵魂净化的意象。炼金术的一个核心思想，即将一种物质从其仍不纯的原始状态转变为纯净的最终状态，与帕拉塞尔苏斯的最后晚餐教义非常契合，根据该教义，从亚当后裔而来的凡人要通过圣灵的洗礼获得新生。作为一名炼金术士，帕拉塞尔苏斯对基督的变形非常感兴趣，他最初用炼金术来解释，但后来可能根据乔瓦尼·皮科·德拉·米兰多拉的模式用魔法来解释。
