Editing Paracelsus (section)

===Paracelsianism and Rosicrucianism===
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Paracelsus was especially venerated by German [[Rosicrucianism|Rosicrucians]], who regarded him as a prophet, and developed a field of systematic study of his writings, which is sometimes called "[[Paracelsianism]]", or more rarely "Paracelsism". [[Francis Bacon]] warned against Paracelsus and the Rosicrucians, judging that "the ancient opinion that man was ''microcosmus''" had been "fantastically strained by Paracelsus and the alchemists".<ref>F. A. Yates, ''Rosicrucian Enlightenment'' (1972), [https://books.google.com/books?id=ZXFHAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA120 p. 120].</ref>

"Paracelsism" also produced the first complete edition of Paracelsus's works. Johannes Huser of [[Basel]] (c. 1545–1604) gathered autographs and manuscript copies, and prepared an edition in ten volumes during 1589–1591.<ref>Huser quart edition (medicinal and philosophical treatises), ten volumes, Basel, 1589–1591; Huser's edition of Paracelsus's surgical works was published posthumously in Strasbourg, 1605.</ref>

The prophecies contained in Paracelsus's works on astrology and divination began to be separately edited as ''Prognosticon Theophrasti Paracelsi'' in the early 17th century. His prediction of a "great calamity just beginning" indicating the [[Eschatology|End Times]] was later associated with the [[Thirty Years' War]], and the identification of [[Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden]] as the "Lion from the North" is based in one of Paracelsus's "prognostications" referencing [[Book of Jeremiah|Jeremiah]] 5:6.<ref>Eugen Weber, ''Apocalypses: Prophecies, Cults, and Millennial Beliefs Through the Ages'' (2000),  [https://books.google.com/books?id=nz5m0vZHYx8C&pg=PA86 p. 86].</ref>

[[Carl Gustav Jung]] studied Paracelsus. He wrote two essays on Paracelsus, one delivered in the house in which Paracelsus was born at Einsiedeln in June 1929, the other to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Paracelsus's death in 1941 at Zurich.<ref>C.W.C.G.Jung vol.15 'The Spirit of Man, Art and Literature' pub.RKP 1966</ref>