Paracelsus College

This index is reproduced from a booklet in the Paracelsus College library. It is presumed to have been constructed soon after the completion of Parachemy Volume V in 1977. The identity of Brother Cohobaticus is unknown"... 

Paracelsus College. Institute of Parachemistry. [Web site], fhttp //homepages.ihug.com.au/ panopus/ index.html. 

Information on courses as well as articles and an archive of magazines. "Paracelsus College is an educational system dedicated to the living oral and experiential tradition of Alchemy applied in the service of Conscious Evolution. The Paracelsus College was founded by Frater Albertus Spagyricus (Dr. Albert Richard Riedel 1911 - 1984) in the U.S. in 1980 and Australia 1982. Prior to this it was known as the Paracelsus Research Society. The work of the College in the U.S. ceased after Frater Albert s passing but has continued in Australia"... 

The following is an interview with Greg Sneddon, a former administrator and teacher at Paracelsus College, on the 29th of April 1988 in Melbourne, Australia"... 

In 1974 I began an intensive study of alchemy at the, Paracelsus Research Society (PRS)—later called Paracelsus College and located in Salt Lake City, Utah. The classes were taught by Dr. Albert Reidel, who preferred to be known as Frater Albertus. 

In the early 1940s, one student of these classes was Albert Reidel. Frater Albertus went on to teach these classes himself and then later split off on his own to establish the Paracelsus Research Society in 1960, which became accredited as Paracelsus College in the early 80s. 

Essentia Journal of Evolutionary Thought in Action. Salt Lake City, Utah Quarterly publication of Paracelsus College, 1980. 

Ferguson, John. Paracelsus. New College Glasgow Univ Album (1874) 261-291. 

Ricketts, R. "Paracelsus and his surgery." MA thesis, Augustinian College of Villanova, c. 1933-1934. 

Paracelsus - Genius or Charlatan Sixth Annual Lecture Series in the Pharmaceutical Sciences, 1962-63. University of Texas, College of Pharmacy, Austin, 1963, pp. 4-12. Reprinted in Texas J. Pharmacy, 5 (1964). Reprinted in AJI, The Physical Universe, 2nd edn., 1964, pp. 33-38, and subsequent editions. 

The Rosicmcian influence then revived once more with Dr John Dee, Shakespearean literature, the cautious writings of Paracelsus and the mystical works of Fludd and Maier in the seventeenth century. This tiny trickle received some impetus with the Invisible College and Royal Society. It became a gentle stream when the English chemists and physicists Robert Boyle, William Cooper, Eireneus Philalethes and Sir Isaac Newton began to bring bona fide chemical and alchemical investigations some respectability. 

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