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

Paracelsus

Whether wine is a nourishment, medicine or poison is a matter of dosage.
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Dosage Medicine Nourishment Poison Wine
This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
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Alchemy Magic Process
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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Appearance Dreams God Greatness Natural Predicament Reveal Send
All drugs are poisons the benefit depends on the dosage.
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Benefit Dosage Drugs
Let no man belong to another that can belong to himself.
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Himself Man
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.
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Build Error Heaven Thrive
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
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
That which lives on reason lives against the spirit.
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Live Reason Spirit
Since nothing is so secret or hidden that it cannot be revealed, everything depends on the discovery of those things that manifest the hidden.
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Hide Manifestation Reveal Secret
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.
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Country Different Earth Growth Thrive
Let no one who can be his own belong to another.
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Be Yourself Himself
Fasting is the greatest remedy– the physician within.
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Cure Fast Greatness
Medicine rests upon four pillars – philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.
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Ethics Medicine Philosophy Pillar
The right dose differentiates a poison from a remedy.
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Poison Remedy Right
Nothing is hidden so much that it wouldn’t be revealed through its fruit.
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Hide Result Reveal

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