That which lives on reason lives against the spirit.
PARACELSUSThis process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
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He who knows nothing, loves nothing. He who can do nothing understands nothing. He who understands nothing is worthless.
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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.
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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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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.
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Know that the philosopher has power over the stars, and not the stars over him.
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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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All that man needs for health and healing has been provided by God in nature, the Challenge of science is to find it.
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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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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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Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new… but who can understand and measure its sharp breath, its mystery and its design?
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The ultimate cause of human disease is the consequence of our transgression of the universal laws of life.
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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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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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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.
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The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.
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