The first dated writings of Paracelsus were written in Salzburg, namely treatises on the role of the Virgin Mary and the Holy Trinity against the background of the discussions of the spreading Reformation. Here Paracelsus defended the absolute divinity of Mary and thus followed a rather traditional line. There is some evidence that the treatise De genealogia Christi, which inter alia also deals with Mary, was completed as early as 1524 and not after 1530, as had been assumed until now.

A complete turn to the Reformation only took place with the writing On the seven points of Christian idolatry, in which the conventional form of worship was sharply criticized. The intention expressed in the letter to the Wittenberg reformers to reinterpret large parts of the Bible corresponded to the Reformation's "sola scriptura" principle (based only on the Bible) and was exemplified with a partial commentary on the Gospel of Matthew.

A. The Writings on the Virgin Mary

A1. De dignitate sanctae Mariae [Latin-German]
A2. Super Salve regina explicatio [Latin-German]
A3a. Explicatio in verba Ave Maria [Latin-German]
A3b. Auslegung über das Ave Maria (long version) [early German]
A4a. In canticum Mariae [Latin-German]
A4b. Auslegung des Magnificat (long version) [early German]
A5. Alia explicatio cantici Mariae [Latin-German]
A6. Alia explicatio uberior in Magnificat [Latin-German]
A7a. Auslegung über das Nunc dimittis (short version) [early German]
A7b. Auslegung über das Nunc dimittis (long version) [early German]
A8. Auslegung der Marienhymnen [early German]
A9a. De invocatione beatae virginis [Latin-German]
A9b. De invocatione beatae Mariae virginis [early German]
A10. Das Buch von Maria der Jungfrauen (15 Aug. 1524, The book of Mary the Virgin) [early German]
A11a. Liber de virgine ex qua deus natus est [Latin-German]
A11b. Libellus de virgine sancta theotoca [early German]

B. Liber de sancta trinitate (8 Sept. 1524)

C. De genealogia Christi and fragments

C1. De genealogia Christi
C2. Erklerung von der geburt Mariae und Christi
C3a. De Ecclesiastici 24 [Latin-German]
C3b. De Ecclesiastici 24 [early German]

D. Early Sermons

D1. Sermo de sancta trinitate
D2. Sermo de partu virginis
D3. Sermo de passione domini
D4. Sermo de purgatorio

E. De septem punctis idolatriae christianae (14 Nov. 1524)

(On the seven points of Christian idolatry)

F. The Letter to the Wittenberg Reformers with Addendum (March 1525)

F1. The Letter to Luther, Melanchthon and Bugenhagen
F2. The Commentary to the First Five Chapters of Matthew

In preparation. The final version may differ slightly due to further findings.