The dose makes the poison.
PARACELSUSLet no man belong to another that can belong to himself.
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Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.
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The 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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Fasting is the greatest remedy– the physician within.
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Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.
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What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.
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Women’s regular bleeding engenders phantoms.
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Medicine is not merely a science but an art. The character of the physician may act more powerfully upon the patient than the drugs employed.
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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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The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.
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Nothing is hidden so much that it wouldn’t be revealed through its fruit.
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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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Men who are devoid of the power of spiritual perception are unable to recognize anything that cannot be seen externally.
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The most secure method, to ruin your health, is a SICK BED!
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What sense would it make or what would it benfit a physician if he discovered the origin of the diseases but could not cure or alleviate them?
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The art of medicine has its roots in the heart.
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And it is true, best is nothing concealed which shall not be discovered; for which cause a marvellous being shall come after me, who as yet lives not, and who shall reveal many things.
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All things are poisons. It is simply the dose that distinguishes between a poison and a remedy.
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Magic has power to experience and fathom things which are inaccessible to human reason. For magic is a great secret wisdom, just as reason is a great public folly.
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Every body consists of three ingredients. The names of these are Sulphur, Mercury, and Salt.
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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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When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him… For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth.
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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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Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes.
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From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.
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Determined will is the beginning of all magical operations. It is because men do not perfectly imagine and believe the result, that the (occult) arts are so uncertain, while they might be perfectly certain.
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Man is ill because he is never still.
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