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- Title
The Astronomia Olympi novi and the Theologia Cabalistica: Two Pseudo-Paracelsian Works of the Philosophia Mystica (1618).
- Authors
Žemla, Martin
- Abstract
The Astronomia Olympi novi and the Theologia Cabalistica were published as part of the Philosophia Mystica (1618). This influential collection of Paracelsian and Weigelian texts was among the first to include a publication of the theologica of Paracelsus. Both of these short pseudo-Paracelsian works were written by Adam Haslmayr (1560-1630), the propagator of the "Theophrastia Sancta," a philosophical theology of Paracelsus mixed with Weigelian and alchemical influences. These works, taken in the Philosophia Mystica , are among the very few of his texts that appeared in print in his lifetime. In this paper, the content of both pseudepigrapha is analyzed and related to ideas found in both the authentic and the pseudepigraphic works of Paracelsus, as well as in relevant works of some Paracelsians (Khunrath, Figulus, Weigel, Croll, Siebmacher and Mögling). Specifically, the notions of the " Olympus novus " and the "cabalistic principles" are discussed in a wider context.
- Subjects
PHILOSOPHICAL theology; CABALA
- Publication
Early Science & Medicine, 2019, Vol 24, Issue 5/6, p527
- ISSN
1383-7427
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1163/15733823-02456P07