ISIS UNVEILED..contd., [[Vol. 1, Page]] 169 PARACELSUS THE DISCOVERER OF HYDROGEN. We must bear in mind, moreover, that Paracelsus was the discoverer of hydrogen, and knew well all its properties and composition long before any of the orthodox academicians ever thought of it; that he had studied astrology and astronomy, as all the fire-philosophers did; and that, if he did assert that man is in a direct affinity with the stars, he knew well what he asserted. The next point for the physiologists to verify is his proposition that the nourishment of the body comes not merely through the stomach, but also imperceptibly through the magnetic force, which resides in all nature and by which every individual member draws its specific nourishment to itself. Man, he further says, draws not only health from the elements when in equilibrium, but also disease when they are disturbed. Living bodies are subject to the laws of attraction and chemical affinity, as science admits; the most remarkable physical property of organic tissues, according to physiologists, is the property of imbibition. What more natural, then, than this theory of Paracelsus, that this absorbent, attractive, and chemical body of ours gathers into itself the astral or sidereal influences? The sun and the stars attract from us to themselves, and we again from them to us. What objection can science offer to this? What it is that we give off, is shown in Baron Reichenbachs discovery of the odic emanations of man, which are identical with flames from magnets, crystals, and in fact from all vegetable organisms.
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