About This Item
Title
Three preachers and a thief
Subject
Clergy
Theft
Criminals
Occultism
Symbolism
Description
Artist unknown.
Paracelsus' 23rd prophecy. Three preachers standing at pulpits speak to each other while a thief carrying a sack passes by.
Title taken from English translation: Prophecies of Paracelsus (London : William Rider & Son, 1915).
Creator
Paracelsus, 1493-1541
Source
Original image in: Paracelsus, 1493-1541. Prognosticatio eximii doctoris Theophrasti Paracelsi (S.l. : s.n., between 1560 and 1580). 1f 257 (Historical Medical Library of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia)
Prognosticatio eximii doctoris Theophrasti Paracelsi reveals the prophecies of Theophrastus von Hohenheim, known as Paracelsus. Paracelsus was a revolutionary chemical physician also known for his occultist philosophy. This edition contains 32 prophesies and accompanying illustrations and may have been printed in France between 1560 and 1580.
Publisher
Digitized by the Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Date
between 1560 and 1580
Language
lat
Type
StillImage
Identifier
1f_257.pl23a
1f_257.pl23b
Original Format
1 print : etching
Physical Dimensions
10 x 8 cm
Citation
Paracelsus, 1493-1541, “Three preachers and a thief,” The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Digital Library, accessed October 31, 2025, https://cppdigitallibrary.org/items/show/2147.