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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

The art of medicine cannot be inherited, nor can it be copied from books
PARACELSUS

Art Body Copy Inheritance Medicine
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.
PARACELSUS

Country Different Earth Growth Thrive
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.
PARACELSUS

Ourselves Prayer Preparation Skill
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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Constitution Existence Influence Man Rule Wisdom
Man is ill because he is never still.
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Calm Man Sick
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.
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Book Himself Knowledge Patient Rich Writing
But is not He who created it for the sake of the sick body more than the remedy? And is not He who cures the soul, which is more than the body, greater?
PARACELSUS

Body Creation Greatness Sick Soul
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.
PARACELSUS

Mathematics Point Science Wisdom
Whether wine is a nourishment, medicine or poison is a matter of dosage.
PARACELSUS

Dosage Medicine Nourishment Poison Wine
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
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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Design Measurement Mystery Time Wind
Fasting is the greatest remedy– the physician within.
PARACELSUS

Cure Fast Greatness
Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow.
PARACELSUS

Art Creation Flow Heaven Source
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.
PARACELSUS

Fools Ourselves Reality Regard Time
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.
PARACELSUS

Beginning Bliss Death Earth God Holy Kingdom Life
This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
PARACELSUS

Alchemy Magic Process

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