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NPE 1: Liber de vita beata - Paracelsus on Beatific Life

The notions of "Vita Beata" (beatific life) and "Seligkeit" (beatitude) play a key role in Paracelsus's religious thinking. They express the idea that by way of devotion and right moral behaviour the human being will be able to experience glimpses of eternal life even when still living on earth. Moreover, Vita Beata on earth is actually a prerequisite for the beatific life after death. Essentially, the realization of Vita Beata is nothing else than to pursue a true Christian life.

A. Liber de vita beata

A1. Prologus totus operis christianae vitae
A2. Liber prologi in vitam beatam
A3. De summo et aeterno bono
A4. Liber de felici liberalitate
A5. Liber de honestis utrisque divitiis
A6. Liber de virtute humana
A7. Liber de officiis, beneficiis et stipendiis
A8. Liber de ordine doni
A9. Ex libro de tempore laboris et requiei
A10. Liber de nupta, de alienis rebus non concupiscendis
A11. Ex libro de magnificis et superbis
A12. Liber de religione perpetua
A13. De ecclesiis veteris et novi testamenti
A14. Liber de re templi ecclesiastica
A15. Liber de potentia et potentia gratiae Dei
A16. Liber de martyrio Christi
A17. Liber de remissione peccatorum
A18. Liber de venerandis sanctis
A19. Liber de resurrectione et corporum glorificatione
A20. Liber de sursum corda

B. Fünf Traktate zur Seligkeit (Five Tracts of Beatitude)

B1.Liber de poenitentiis
B2. Libellus de baptismate christiano
B3. Liber de sacramento corporis Christi
B4. Liber de iustitia
B5. Liber de imaginibus idolatriae

C. Weiteres zur Heiligenverehrung (Furthur Points on the Veneration of Saints)

C1. Auslegung des 149. Psalms
C2. Auslegung des 150. Psalms
C3. De sanctis

NPE 1: Vita Beata

Paracelsus: NPE 1 Vita Beata In Print Preview

Liber de sursum corda

Liber de sursum corda

Heidelberg University Library
Cod. Pal. Germ. 26, 2°, f. 18r