The name of Paracelsus is shrouded in a thousand mysteries and riddles. A man who was several centuries ahead of his time, and who actually founded medicine as a science in the modern sense of the word, was never accepted by the society of his time.His texts were understood only centuries after the death of the great doctor. The book that you are holding in your hands is the first fundamental edition in Russian of the main works of the great philosopher-mystic, occultist, naturalist and physician Philipp von Hohenheim, known throughout Europe under the name Paracelsus.This collection includes the most significant works on alchemy and practical magic: "Magic Archidox", "Chemical Psalter", "Secrets of Alchemy, discovered in the nature of the planets", etc.