Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes.
PARACELSUSAnyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes.
PARACELSUSDetermined 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.
PARACELSUSThe book of Nature is that which the physician must read; and to do so he must walk over the leaves.
PARACELSUSWhen 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.
PARACELSUSNothing is hidden so much that it wouldn’t be revealed through its fruit.
PARACELSUSIf 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.
PARACELSUSEvery physician must be rich in knowledge, and not only of that which is written in books; his patients should be his book, they will never mislead him.
PARACELSUSOnce 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.
PARACELSUSThe dose makes the poison.
PARACELSUSThe ultimate cause of human disease is the consequence of our transgression of the universal laws of life.
PARACELSUSThis process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
PARACELSUSA little bit of beer is divine medicine.
PARACELSUSMany 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.
PARACELSUSMagic 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.
PARACELSUSAll arts lie in man, though not all are apparent. Awakening brings them out. To be taught is nothing; everything is in man waiting to be awakened.
PARACELSUSThen 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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