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The Devil’s Doctor. They called him that because he separated the elements from the glory of God, and declared science (magick) a wholly sundered form, made available to the worst kinds of people, Doctor MDs, snake oil salesmen who follow protocols from personages like Bill Gates, and corporate organizations like CDC, the FDA, and believe it to be doctrine from god, that god being Satan and his terrible demons.
Paracelsus was a raging (drunk) stream of consciousness writer, making very little sense, providing a kind of running inner commentary on what it’s like to be possessed by a devil.
The impetus of the Rosicrucian order and formulas that provide power to the fallen people in their secret, jelly-jar, councils.
It is true: I can distill the essence of things with fire, and bloodletting amounts to a tonsillectomy.
Paracelsus operated along side, and in concert with, the great church reformation of Luther. A system of Ordo ab Chao (order from chaos), Hegelian dialectic put into motion by the terrible Synagogue of Satan. The worm infested fruit of which is THE LAND OF CONFUSION, The tower of Babel, THE DAUGHTER of BABYLON, The United States, and all of the ignorant citizens that insist stale, bunk, air, from under a face mask is going to save your life.
Science of magick. See NASA religion and Occult secret agent ELON MUSK.
I am not a Paracelsian, and think it prudent to watch your step around Satanic magicians that insist their concoctions are saving your life, when in reality, they are killing you. COVID-19 CORPORATE.gov BIO WEAPON, fake medicine, fake food, and poisoned water.
I AM A HUMANIST.
THE ENGINEERED DEGRADATION OF OUR “ACADEMICS” is CLEAR EVIDENCE OF A HIGHER ANCIENT CIVILIZATION.
The DESTRUCTION is HERE.
Thank you, Father.
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Chapter 2: INTRODUCTION – Fool’s Quest
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It is only rather recently that science has begun to make peace with its magical roots.
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Chapter 2: INTRODUCTION – Fool’s Quest
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Chapter 2: INTRODUCTION – Fool’s Quest
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Chapter 2: INTRODUCTION – Fool’s Quest
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Chapter 2: INTRODUCTION – Fool’s Quest
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Chapter 8: THE SILVER EMPIRE
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Chapter 10: CHAPTER THREE – The Universal Scholar
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Chapter 11: SCHOLAR’S PROGRESS
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Chapter 13: FURTHER INSTRUCTION
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Chapter 14: CHAPTER FOUR – The Staff and the Snake
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Chapter 14: CHAPTER FOUR – The Staff and the Snake
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Notes: Fake food, dirty water and wearing a face mask.
Chapter 14: CHAPTER FOUR – The Staff and the Snake
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Chapter 14: CHAPTER FOUR – The Staff and the Snake
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Highlight: The unjust physicians are known by their transgressions against the commandment; for they reap, although they have not sown, and they are like ravening wolves; they reap because they want to reap, in order to increase their profit, and they are heedless of the commandment of love.
Notes: Covid 19 mask enforcers.
Chapter 15: ANCIENT CURES
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Chapter 16: THE DOCTOR AT LARGE
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Chapter 16: THE DOCTOR AT LARGE
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Highlight: If the world knew the villainy and knavery (beside ignorance) of the physicians and apothecaries,” the English essayist John Aubrey wrote in the seventeenth century, “the people would throw stones at ’em as they walked in the streets.
Chapter 17: ITALY IN ECLIPSE
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Chapter 18: OPENING UP THE BODY
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Chapter 20: PHYSIC IN THE FIELD
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Chapter 20: PHYSIC IN THE FIELD
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Chapter 21: CHAPTER FIVE – Intellectual Vagabonds
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Chapter 22: THE PEOPLE’S MAGIC
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Chapter 22: THE PEOPLE’S MAGIC
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Chapter 23: THE NECROMANCERS
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Chapter 23: THE NECROMANCERS
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Chapter 23: THE NECROMANCERS
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Chapter 23: THE NECROMANCERS
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Chapter 23: THE NECROMANCERS
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Chapter 25: FROM ICE TO DESERT
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Notes: Bill Gates
Chapter 25: FROM ICE TO DESERT
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Chapter 27: UNREST IN CHRISTENDOM
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Chapter 27: UNREST IN CHRISTENDOM
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Chapter 27: UNREST IN CHRISTENDOM
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Chapter 28: BY FAITH ALONE
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Chapter 31: CHAPTER SEVEN – Revolution Under the Sign of the Shoe
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Chapter 31: CHAPTER SEVEN – Revolution Under the Sign of the Shoe
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Chapter 31: CHAPTER SEVEN – Revolution Under the Sign of the Shoe
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Chapter 31: CHAPTER SEVEN – Revolution Under the Sign of the Shoe
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Chapter 31: CHAPTER SEVEN – Revolution Under the Sign of the Shoe
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Chapter 32: THE RADICAL REFORMATION
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Chapter 33: THE POT BOILS
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Chapter 33: THE POT BOILS
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Chapter 34: A PREACHER IN SALZBURG
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Notes: The Fugger’s. Look it up.
Chapter 34: A PREACHER IN SALZBURG
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Notes: Fauci and Gates
Chapter 36: THE CHEMICAL PHILOSOPHY
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Chapter 36: THE CHEMICAL PHILOSOPHY
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Chapter 36: THE CHEMICAL PHILOSOPHY
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Chapter 37: DUPES AND DECEIVERS
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Chapter 37: DUPES AND DECEIVERS
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Chapter 38: HERMETICA RESURRECTED
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Chapter 39: THE THEORY OF GOLD MAKING
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Chapter 39: THE THEORY OF GOLD MAKING
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Chapter 40: ALCHEMY SEES REASON
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Chapter 40: ALCHEMY SEES REASON
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Chapter 43: CHAPTER NINE – Elixir and Quintessence
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Notes: Vaccine and covid protocol.
Chapter 43: CHAPTER NINE – Elixir and Quintessence
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yet persist with it nonetheless because it will bring them profit.
Chapter 44: DRUGSTORES
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Chapter 44: DRUGSTORES
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Chapter 44: DRUGSTORES
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Chapter 45: THE ESSENCE OF THINGS
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Chapter 45: THE ESSENCE OF THINGS
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Chapter 45: THE ESSENCE OF THINGS
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Chapter 46: POTIONS OF LIFE
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Chapter 46: POTIONS OF LIFE
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Chapter 47: SEPARATING MEDICINE FROM POISON
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Chapter 52: ACADEMIC IMPOSTURES
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Notes: WHO syccophant.
Chapter 54: CHAPTER ELEVEN – The Battle of Basle
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Chapter 54: CHAPTER ELEVEN – The Battle of Basle
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Chapter 54: CHAPTER ELEVEN – The Battle of Basle
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Chapter 57: ON THE RUN
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Chapter 58: CHAPTER TWELVE – Against the Grain
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Chapter 58: CHAPTER TWELVE – Against the Grain
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Chapter 58: CHAPTER TWELVE – Against the Grain
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Notes: Bill Gates Anthony Fauci.
Chapter 59: FELLOW SPIRITS
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Chapter 60: BACK TO THE BENCH
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Chapter 62: WOOD OR METAL
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Notes: Worthless covid vaccine.
Chapter 62: WOOD OR METAL
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Chapter 64: A SYSTEM OF HEALING
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Notes: Great conjuction of Saturn and Venus Dec 21 2019.
Chapter 64: A SYSTEM OF HEALING
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Chapter 65: SAINTS AND SINNERS
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Chapter 65: SAINTS AND SINNERS
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Chapter 67: THE STUFF OF NATURE
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Chapter 67: THE STUFF OF NATURE
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Chapter 67: THE STUFF OF NATURE
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Chapter 68: THE ELEMENTS OF MEDICINE
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Chapter 68: THE ELEMENTS OF MEDICINE
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Chapter 68: THE ELEMENTS OF MEDICINE
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Chapter 68: THE ELEMENTS OF MEDICINE
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Notes: This is why so many people are missing. For occult medical therapy. Medicine.
Chapter 68: THE ELEMENTS OF MEDICINE
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Chapter 70: FEMALE MYSTERIES
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Chapter 71: SCIENCE OR MYSTICISM?
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Chapter 72: CHAPTER FIFTEEN – Star and Ascendant
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Chapter 73: READING THE HEAVENS
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Chapter 73: READING THE HEAVENS
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Chapter 76: THE EARTH MOVES
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Notes: Firmament education.
Chapter 76: THE EARTH MOVES
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Chapter 76: THE EARTH MOVES
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Notes: Red alert. SoS.
Chapter 76: THE EARTH MOVES
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Chapter 77: THE END OF THE ASTRAL REIGN
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Notes: Astrology.
Chapter 77: THE END OF THE ASTRAL REIGN
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Chapter 77: THE END OF THE ASTRAL REIGN
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Chapter 78: CHAPTER SIXTEEN – Demons of the Mind
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Chapter 79: ROUGH ROADS
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Chapter 79: ROUGH ROADS
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Chapter 79: ROUGH ROADS
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Notes: Decent advise.
Chapter 79: ROUGH ROADS
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Chapter 80: NATURAL SPIRITS
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Notes: Fake pandemic.
Chapter 81: WITCH-HUNTING
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Chapter 84: CHAPTER SEVENTEEN – The Little Man
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Notes: CDC treatment protocol.
Chapter 85: A LIFE’S WORK
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Chapter 85: A LIFE’S WORK
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Chapter 86: THE MAKING OF A MAN
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Chapter 86: THE MAKING OF A MAN
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Chapter 91: THE EARLY REVIVALISTS
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Chapter 92: PARACELSUS ACCUSED
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Chapter 92: PARACELSUS ACCUSED
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Chapter 92: PARACELSUS ACCUSED
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Chapter 92: PARACELSUS ACCUSED
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Highlight: blind and ignorant followers, who, he says, apply all sorts of worthless potions, charms, pills, and powders.
Notes: Modern medicine doctors from hell.
Chapter 93: THE POLITICS OF ALCHEMY
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Highlight: Tyrocinium
Chapter 93: THE POLITICS OF ALCHEMY
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Highlight: Chymicium (The Chemical Beginner). It was the first of its kind—neither a “book of secrets” nor an obscure academic treatise, but a manual for the would-be iatrochemist, or “chymist,
Chapter 94: THE ANTIMONY WARS
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Highlight: The pills, retrieved from the excrement, could be reused.
Notes: Bill Gates medicine.
Chapter 96: BROTHERHOODS OF SECRETS
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Highlight: A “scientific” utopia is described in The City of the Sun by Tommaso Campanella, written around 1602 but not published until 1623, the year before Bacon wrote New Atlantis.
Chapter 96: BROTHERHOODS OF SECRETS
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Highlight: Libavius’s Alchemia (1597
Chapter 96: BROTHERHOODS OF SECRETS
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Highlight: nightfall is not due to the setting of the sun but to the rising of the night stars, that some of the stars are shaped like cucurbits and phials containing salt, sulphur and mercury and emitting winds like man.
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