That which lives on reason lives against the spirit.
PARACELSUSIt 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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This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.
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The main reason for healing is love.
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Medicine rests upon four pillars – philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.
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Know that the philosopher has power over the stars, and not the stars over him.
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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 also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
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However, anyone to whom this happens should not leave his room upon awakening, should speak to no-one, but remain alone and sober until everything comes back to him, and he recalls the dream.
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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.
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Women’s regular bleeding engenders phantoms.
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In every human being there is a special heaven, whole and unbroken.
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Let no man belong to another that can belong to himself.
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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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The beginning of wisdom is the beginning of supernatural power.
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Fasting is the greatest remedy– the physician within.
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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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