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Every body consists of three ingredients. The names of these are Sulphur, Mercury, and Salt.

Paracelsus

Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this; and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster.
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Attack Body Fight Health Himself Nature Sick
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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Experience Greatness Human Magic Power Reason
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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Benefit Cure Discover Remedy
Medicine rests upon four pillars – philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.
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Ethics Medicine Philosophy Pillar
Could we but rightly comprehend the mind of man, nothing would be impossible to us upon the earth.
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Earth Impossible Mindset Right
Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes.
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Fools Fruit Imagination Oneself Time
Every body consists of three ingredients. The names of these are Sulphur, Mercury, and Salt.
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Body Ingredient Name Science
For one country is different from another; its earth is different, as are its stones, wines, bread, meat, and everything that grows and thrives in a specific region.
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Country Different Earth Growth Thrive
The book of Nature is that which the physician must read; and to do so he must walk over the leaves.
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Leave Nature Reading Walk
Since nothing is so secret or hidden that it cannot be revealed, everything depends on the discovery of those things that manifest the hidden.
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Hide Manifestation Reveal Secret
Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.
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Acceptance Dreams Greatness True
Consider that we shouldn’t call our brother a fool, since we don’t know ourselves what we are.
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Brother Call Fools Ourselves
This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
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Alchemy Magic Process
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
He who knows nothing, loves nothing. He who can do nothing understands nothing. He who understands nothing is worthless.
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Himself Love Understand Worth
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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Cure Eyes Nature See Tree

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