Know that the philosopher has power over the stars, and not the stars over him.
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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The human body is vapor materialized by sunshine mixed with the life of the stars.
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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.
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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.
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A little bit of beer is divine medicine.
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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.
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All things are poisons. It is simply the dose that distinguishes between a poison and a remedy.
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Be not another, if you can be yourself.
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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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The highest degree of a medicine is Love.
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The dreams which reveal the supernatural are promises and messages that God sends us directly: they are nothing but His angels, His ministering spirits , who usually appear to us when we are in a great predicament.
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The beginning of wisdom is the beginning of supernatural power.
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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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The book of Nature is that which the physician must read; and to do so he must walk over the leaves.
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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.
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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.
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