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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.

Paracelsus

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

Dosage Drugs
Let no man belong to another that can belong to himself.
PARACELSUS

Himself Man
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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Appearance Dreams God Greatness Natural Predicament Reveal Send
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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Herself Light Nature Understand Visible
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.
PARACELSUS

Art Guide Medicine Pills Science Understand
He who knows nothing, loves nothing. He who can do nothing understands nothing. He who understands nothing is worthless.
PARACELSUS

Himself Love Understand Worth
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
Women’s regular bleeding engenders phantoms.
PARACELSUS

Blood System Woman
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

Ourselves Prayer Preparation Skill
The human body is vapor materialized by sunshine mixed with the life of the stars.
PARACELSUS

Body Human Life Material Stars Sunshine
Although Alchemy has now fallen into contempt, and is even considered a thing of the past, the physicain should not be influenced by such judgements.
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Alchemy Fall Influence Judgement Past
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.
PARACELSUS

Creation Earth Establishment Heaven Man Work
The most secure method, to ruin your health, is a SICK BED!
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Bed Health Security Yourself
The beginning of wisdom is the beginning of supernatural power.
PARACELSUS

Beginning Power Wisdom
Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.
PARACELSUS

Case Doubt Feeling Guide Known Life
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.
PARACELSUS

Man Nature Reveal Statement

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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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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