If we were to translate Paracelsus’s explanations on faith in the above quotes and elsewhere into a 21st-century position, we could give it as such: He defines the human capability of having faith in something as the ability to flow into one.
Read More[…] It takes Paracelsus less than two pages to establish a critical foundation for a Western type of shamanism almost entirely forgotten or overlooked today. In sparse words and with the precision of an adept in his field, he gives us the essential outline of the ecosystem of spirits within which the magus operates and orientates themselves.
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