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All things are poisons, for there is nothing without poisonous qualities. It is only the dose which makes a thing poison.

Paracelsus

Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.
PARACELSUS

Acceptance Dreams Greatness True
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.
PARACELSUS

Herself Light Nature Understand Visible
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?
PARACELSUS

Design Measurement Mystery Time Wind
Every body consists of three ingredients. The names of these are Sulphur, Mercury, and Salt.
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Body Ingredient Name Science
The beginning of wisdom is the beginning of supernatural power.
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Beginning Power Wisdom
The right dose differentiates a poison from a remedy.
PARACELSUS

Poison Remedy Right
Know that the philosopher has power over the stars, and not the stars over him.
PARACELSUS

Himself Philosophy Power Stars
Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
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Gold Man Nature
It would be an error to try to build the Kingdom of Heaven upon envy. For nothing that is founded on envy can thrive; it must have another root.
PARACELSUS

Build Error Heaven Thrive
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.
PARACELSUS

Attack Body Fight Health Himself Nature Sick
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.
PARACELSUS

Breathe Flow Himself Live Source
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
That which lives on reason lives against the spirit.
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Live Reason Spirit
All that man needs for health and healing has been provided by God in nature, the Challenge of science is to find it.
PARACELSUS

Challenge Finding God Healing Health Man Nature Need Science
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
A little bit of beer is divine medicine.
PARACELSUS

Alcohol Divine Medicine

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