light of nature

Paracelsus (Theophrastus Phillipus Aureolus Bombastus von Hohenheim c.1493–1541) was a Swiss physician. He developed a new approach to medicine and philosophy based on observation and experience. He wrote:

“There are, therefore, two kinds of knowledge in this world: an eternal and a temporal. The eternal springs directly from the light of the Holy Spirit, but the other directly from the Light of Nature.”[1]

C.G. Jung:
“This light [scintilla = sparks] is the lumen naturae which illuminates consciousness..”[2]

“… lumen naturae is the light of the darkness itself…”[3]

“Since consciousness has always been described in terms derived from the behavior of light, it is in my view not too much to assume that these multiple luminosities correspond to tiny conscious phenomena.”[4]

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[1] Theophrastus Paracelsus, Bücher und Schriften, Edited by Johannes Huser, Basel, 1589-91, (reprinted by Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim, New York, 1971). This quote is from Huser vol. X (Olms, vol. 4): Vored zu Philosophiam Sagacium,  p. 5.

[2] C. G. Jung, On the nature of the psyche, Collected Works vol. 8 (Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1967), p. 192.

[3] C. G. Jung, Paracelsus as a spiritual phenomena, Collected Works vol. 13 (Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1967), p. 160.

[4] C. G. Jung, op. cit On the Nature, p. 199.

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