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

Paracelsus

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
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
A little bit of beer is divine medicine.
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Alcohol Divine Medicine
Women’s regular bleeding engenders phantoms.
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Blood System Woman
Then God sends us such a messenger who appears to us in spirit, warns us, consoles us, teaches us, and brings us His good tidings.
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Appearance God Goodness Himself
As you talk, so is your heart.
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Character Heart One Liner Talk
The main reason for healing is love.
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Healing Love Reason
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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Ourselves Prayer Preparation Skill
Consider that we shouldn’t call our brother a fool, since we don’t know ourselves what we are.
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Brother Call Fools Ourselves
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.
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Fools Ourselves Reality Regard Time
Know that the philosopher has power over the stars, and not the stars over him.
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Himself Philosophy Power Stars
All things are poisons. It is simply the dose that distinguishes between a poison and a remedy.
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Distinguish Poison Remedy Simplicity
Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new.
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Brisk Time Wind
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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Benefit Cure Discover Remedy
Men who are devoid of the power of spiritual perception are unable to recognize anything that cannot be seen externally.
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Man Perception Power See Spiritual
Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.
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Gold Lying Medicine Power Virtue
Thoughts give birth to a creative force that is neither elemental nor sidereal. Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow. When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven.
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Born Creation Element Establishment Heaven Himself Man Thinking
Let no man belong to another that can belong to himself.
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Himself Man
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
Be not another, if you can be yourself.
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Be Yourself Original
This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
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Alchemy Magic Process
Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow.
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Art Creation Flow Heaven Source
Fasting is the greatest remedy– the physician within.
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Cure Fast Greatness
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
What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.
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Cure Eyes Nature See Tree
Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.
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Case Doubt Feeling Guide Known Life
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

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