An author of book - German doctor is calls to personality of Парацельса, doctor, philosopher, alchemist, mystic. In the epoch of Reformation, when religion, literature, science appeared the constrained chains of dogmatism, sanctimony and hypocrisy, Парацельс accomplished revolution in spiritual life of western civilization.He not simply agitated society, destroyed him from medieval hibernation by the speeches, studies, all way of life. Very great and him literary heritage. Philosophy, medicine, пневматология (studies about spirits), cosmology, anthropology, alchemy, astrology, magic - here far not complete list that his labours.An author quotes Парацельса much, and that is why voice of this surprizing man as though sounds from the pages of book, gives her vitality and authenticity.