Lux Esoterica (Nifiluz)

The Scholar of the Spagyric Defense In the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, as the medical schools of Europe were locked in a bitter dispute between the traditional Galenists and the revolutionary followers of Paracelsus, a brilliant French physician and alchemist dedicated his career to the defense of the new chemical medicine. Gerhard Penot (also known as Georgius Anathasius Penotus) was born in Port-sur-Saône, France, but spent much of his professional life wandering through Switzerland, Germany, and Bohemia. While his Galenic opponents dismissed him as a dangerous innovator who poisoned his patients with mineral preparations, the Hermetic philosophers recognized Penot as a master of the laboratory who sought to establish a comprehensive science of healing based on the laws of nature. Penot's historical significance lies in his systematic defense of Paracelsian medicine and his original contributions to the practice of the Spagyric Art . Operating in Basel and...