Oswald Croll

Oswald Croll or Crollius (c. 1563 – December 1609) was an alchemist, and professor of medicine at the University of Marburg in Hesse, Germany. A strong proponent of alchemy and using chemistry in medicine, he was heavily involved in writing books and influencing thinkers of his day towards viewing chemistry and alchemy as two separate fields. Quotes For our heart is not at Rest till we have cast behind us the most beautifull Nothing (that is, the shadow and region of Darknesse and Death) and returned to the BEING of BEINGS (from whom we are wandred) as to the prefixed scope of all our desires and will, towards whom every Creature panteth and breatheth. ... Thus many holy men by vertue of the Deifick Spirit have tasted the First fruits of the Resurrection in this life, and have had a fore-taste of the Celestiall Country. I mean that spirituall Death of the Saints (which the Jewes call the kisse of Death) which is precious in the sight of God, if the fulnesse of Life may be called death; We must die to the World, Flesh, Blood, and the whole Animall Man, who would faine have got into those Inmost secrets, and entred into Paradise by the excesse or going out of the MIND: the Man that liveth in nothing but the Mind, is as an Angel, & (as I may so say) conceiveth and apprehendeth God after a sort in his whole breast. Philosophy Reformed and Improved in Four Profound Tractates, translated by H. Pinnell (London: M. S. for Lodowick Lloyd, 1657), ch. 6, pp. 214-15 External links