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For it is we who must pray for our daily bread, and if He grants it to us, it is only through our labour, our skill and preparation.

Paracelsus

This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.
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Alchemy Chemist Doctor Medicine Office
Medicine rests upon four pillars – philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.
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Ethics Medicine Philosophy Pillar
All arts lie in man, though not all are apparent. Awakening brings them out. To be taught is nothing; everything is in man waiting to be awakened.
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Art Awakening Lying Man
In every human being there is a special heaven, whole and unbroken.
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Break Heaven Human
Let no one who can be his own belong to another.
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Be Yourself Himself
Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow.
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Art Creation Flow Heaven Source
Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.
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Earth Element Man Planet Stars World
The dose makes the poison.
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Dosage One Liner Poison
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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Book Himself Knowledge Patient Rich Writing
If we want to make a statement about a man’s nature on the basis of his physiognomy, we must take everything into account; it is in his distress that a man is tested, for then his nature is revealed.
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Man Nature Reveal Statement
Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
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Gold Man Nature
For it is we who must pray for our daily bread, and if He grants it to us, it is only through our labour, our skill and preparation.
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Ourselves Prayer Preparation Skill
Thoughts give birth to a creative force that is neither elemental nor sidereal. Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow. When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven.
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Born Creation Element Establishment Heaven Himself Man Thinking
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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Appearance God Goodness Himself
A mortal lives not through that breath that flows in and that flows out. The source of his life is another and this causes the breath to flow.
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Breathe Flow Himself Live Source
But is not He who created it for the sake of the sick body more than the remedy? And is not He who cures the soul, which is more than the body, greater?
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Body Creation Greatness Sick Soul

For it is we who must pray for our daily bread, and if He grants it to us, it is only through our labour, our skill and preparation.

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