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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

I am different. Let this not upset you.
PARACELSUS

Different Myself Upset Yourself
All 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.
PARACELSUS

Art Awakening Lying Man
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
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

Gold Lying Medicine Power Virtue
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.
PARACELSUS

Experience Greatness Human Magic Power Reason
It should be forbidden and severely punished to remove cancer by cutting, burning, cautery, and other fiendish tortures. It is from nature that the disease comes, and from nature comes the cure, not from physicians.
PARACELSUS

Burn Punishment Removal
All drugs are poisons the benefit depends on the dosage.
PARACELSUS

Benefit Dosage Drugs
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?
PARACELSUS

Benefit Cure Discover Remedy
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
Fasting is the greatest remedy– the physician within.
PARACELSUS

Cure Fast Greatness
Medicine rests upon four pillars – philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.
PARACELSUS

Ethics Medicine Philosophy Pillar
In every human being there is a special heaven, whole and unbroken.
PARACELSUS

Break Heaven Human
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
Every 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.
PARACELSUS

Book Himself Knowledge Patient Rich Writing
The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.
PARACELSUS

Live Patient Type Weird
Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new.
PARACELSUS

Brisk Time Wind

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.

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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.

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