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.
PARACELSUSFrom time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.
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This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.
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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.
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Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.
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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?
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The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.
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Medicine rests upon four pillars – philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.
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Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new.
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The beginning of wisdom is the beginning of supernatural power.
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The ultimate cause of human disease is the consequence of our transgression of the universal laws of life.
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He who knows nothing, loves nothing. He who can do nothing understands nothing. He who understands nothing is worthless.
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Everything is a drug; it depends on the dose.
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Every body consists of three ingredients. The names of these are Sulphur, Mercury, and Salt.
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The most secure method, to ruin your health, is a SICK BED!
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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.
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Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
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