What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.
PARACELSUSThe dreams which reveal the supernatural are promises and messages that God sends us directly: they are nothing but His angels, His ministering spirits , who usually appear to us when we are in a great predicament.
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It would be an error to try to build the Kingdom of Heaven upon envy. For nothing that is founded on envy can thrive; it must have another root.
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Whether wine is a nourishment, medicine or poison is a matter of dosage.
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That which lives on reason lives against the spirit.
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The main reason for healing is love.
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All things are poisons, for there is nothing without poisonous qualities. It is only the dose which makes a thing poison.
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We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.
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Then God sends us such a messenger who appears to us in spirit, warns us, consoles us, teaches us, and brings us His good tidings.
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The beginning of wisdom is the beginning of supernatural power.
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What we should be after death, we have to attain in life, i.e. holiness and bliss. Here on earth the Kingdom of God begins.
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This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.
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Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.
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Nature is a light, and by looking at Nature in her own light we will understand her. Visible Nature may be seen in her visible light; invisible Nature may become visible if we acquire the power to perceive her invisible light.
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Every physician must be rich in knowledge, and not only of that which is written in books; his patients should be his book, they will never mislead him.
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It should be forbidden and severely punished to remove cancer by cutting, burning, cautery, and other fiendish tortures. It is from nature that the disease comes, and from nature comes the cure, not from physicians.
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Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new.
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