Paracelsus on Sympathetic Remedies and Cures

Paracelsus, Franz Hartmann, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky · Buddhas and Initiates Series · 14 pages

Medical science may be acquired by learning, but medical wisdom is given only by Nature: the file is built around that distinction and set out in three numbered parts. The first is the Archaeus, the inner man, whose magnetic nature attracts or repels other sympathetic and antipathetic forces on the same plane; from which follows the observation that diseases of unknown aetiology far outnumber those of mechanical cause, and that physicians know no cure for them because, not knowing the causes, they cannot remove them — medicine being much more an art than a science, and the best physician the one who does least harm.

The second part treats the Mumia as the vehicle of the Archaeus and the Elixir of Life, on the principle that the remedy for injuries to the visible form dwells in the invisible body which infuses life into it, and that cures worked by its power are effective and safe though not understood by the vulgar. The third is sympathetic cure proper, the transplantation of a disease from a person to a healthy animal or plant — with the converse, that a disease cured in one may appear in another, since there is only one universal principle of life by which all beings are sympathetically connected. A short case follows, a letter to The Theosophist from a correspondent whose warts played hide-and-seek, with Blavatsky's editorial reply.

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