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This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.

Paracelsus

Everything is a drug; it depends on the dose.
PARACELSUS

Dosage Drugs
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.
PARACELSUS

Herself Light Nature Understand Visible
This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
PARACELSUS

Alchemy Magic Process
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.
PARACELSUS

Arts Beginning Determination Imagination Man Uncertain Willing
Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow.
PARACELSUS

Art Creation Flow Heaven Source
The book of Nature is that which the physician must read; and to do so he must walk over the leaves.
PARACELSUS

Leave Nature Reading Walk
Fasting is the greatest remedy– the physician within.
PARACELSUS

Cure Fast Greatness
The main reason for healing is love.
PARACELSUS

Healing Love Reason
It is said that a wise man rules over the stars, but this does not mean that he rules over the influences which come from the stars in the sky. It means that he rules over the powers which exist in his own constitution.
PARACELSUS

Constitution Existence Influence Man Rule Wisdom
Medicine rests upon four pillars – philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.
PARACELSUS

Ethics Medicine Philosophy Pillar
The art of medicine cannot be inherited, nor can it be copied from books
PARACELSUS

Art Body Copy Inheritance Medicine
Women’s regular bleeding engenders phantoms.
PARACELSUS

Blood System Woman
Let no man belong to another that can belong to himself.
PARACELSUS

Himself Man
All numbers are multiples of one, all sciences converge to a common point, all wisdom comes out of one center, and the number of wisdom is one.
PARACELSUS

Mathematics Point Science Wisdom
The most secure method, to ruin your health, is a SICK BED!
PARACELSUS

Bed Health Security Yourself
However, anyone to whom this happens should not leave his room upon awakening, should speak to no-one, but remain alone and sober until everything comes back to him, and he recalls the dream.
PARACELSUS

Alone Awakening Dreams Himself Room Talk

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