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

Paracelsus

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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Arts Beginning Determination Imagination Man Uncertain Willing
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.
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Burn Punishment Removal
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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Herself Light Nature Understand Visible
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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Leave Nature Reading Walk
He who knows nothing, loves nothing. He who can do nothing understands nothing. He who understands nothing is worthless.
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Himself Love Understand Worth
Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.
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Earth Element Man Planet Stars World
All that man needs for health and healing has been provided by God in nature, the Challenge of science is to find it.
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Challenge Finding God Healing Health Man Nature Need Science
The ultimate cause of human disease is the consequence of our transgression of the universal laws of life.
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Consequence Human Law Reason Ultimate Universe
In every human being there is a special heaven, whole and unbroken.
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Break Heaven Human
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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Beginning Bliss Death Earth God Holy Kingdom Life
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
Medicine rests upon four pillars – philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.
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Ethics Medicine Philosophy Pillar
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?
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Body Creation Greatness Sick Soul
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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Attack Body Fight Health Himself Nature Sick
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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Art Guide Medicine Pills Science Understand
Let no one who can be his own belong to another.
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Be Yourself Himself

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