Paracelsus was not only a reformer of medicine with a preference for medical alchemy, but also emerged as a radical church reformer. However, he only rarely used the imagery of alchemy as a parable for theological salvation. Fire as the driving force for every alchemical process was also suitable as an image for the purification of souls. A central idea of alchemy, to transfer a substance from its still impure original state into the purified final state, was very much in line with Paracelsus’s doctrine of the Last Supper, according to which the mortal human who had descended from Adam is to be brought to a new birth through baptism with the Holy Spirit. As an alchemist, Paracelsus was keenly interested in the transfiguration of Christ, which he first explained alchemically, but later magically, probably according to the model of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola.

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十字架与坩埚：帕拉塞尔苏斯神学中的炼金术

帕拉塞尔苏斯不仅是一位偏爱医学炼金术的医学改革者，而且还是一位激进的教会改革者。然而，他很少使用炼金术的意象作为神学救赎的比喻。火作为每一个炼金过程的动力，也适合作为净化灵魂的形象。炼金术的一个中心思想是将物质从其仍然不纯的原始状态转变为纯净的最终状态，这与帕拉塞尔苏斯的最后的晚餐学说非常一致，根据该学说，亚当的后代将被带到凡人身上。通过圣灵的洗礼重生。作为一名炼金术士，帕拉塞尔苏斯对基督的变容非常感兴趣，他首先用炼金术解释了这一点，后来又用魔法解释了这一点，