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Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.

Paracelsus

Consider that we shouldn’t call our brother a fool, since we don’t know ourselves what we are.
PARACELSUS

Brother Call Fools Ourselves
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 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.
PARACELSUS

Breathe Flow Himself Live Source
Everything is a drug; it depends on the dose.
PARACELSUS

Dosage Drugs
All numbers are multiples of one, all sciences converge to a common point, all wisdom comes out of one center, and the number of wisdom is one.
PARACELSUS

Mathematics Point Science Wisdom
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.
PARACELSUS

Appearance Dreams God Greatness Natural Predicament Reveal Send
Every body consists of three ingredients. The names of these are Sulphur, Mercury, and Salt.
PARACELSUS

Body Ingredient Name Science
Dreams are not without meaning wherever they may come from — from fantasy, from the elements, or from another inspiration.
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Dreams Element Fantasy Meaning
Let no man belong to another that can belong to himself.
PARACELSUS

Himself Man
The beginning of wisdom is the beginning of supernatural power.
PARACELSUS

Beginning Power Wisdom
This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.
PARACELSUS

Alchemy Chemist Doctor Medicine Office
The human body is vapor materialized by sunshine mixed with the life of the stars.
PARACELSUS

Body Human Life Material Stars Sunshine
Medicine is not merely a science but an art. The character of the physician may act more powerfully upon the patient than the drugs employed.
PARACELSUS

Art Employment Medicine Patient Power Science
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.
PARACELSUS

Experience Greatness Human Magic Power Reason
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.
PARACELSUS

Born Creation Element Establishment Heaven Himself Man Thinking
All things are poisons. It is simply the dose that distinguishes between a poison and a remedy.
PARACELSUS

Distinguish Poison Remedy Simplicity

Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.

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