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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.

Paracelsus

The beginning of wisdom is the beginning of supernatural power.
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Beginning Power Wisdom
Medicine rests upon four pillars – philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.
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Ethics Medicine Philosophy Pillar
The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.
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Live Patient Type Weird
Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
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Gold Man Nature
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
The art of medicine cannot be inherited, nor can it be copied from books
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Art Body Copy Inheritance Medicine
The human body is vapor materialized by sunshine mixed with the life of the stars.
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Body Human Life Material Stars Sunshine
This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
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Alchemy Magic Process
All things are poisons, for there is nothing without poisonous qualities. It is only the dose which makes a thing poison.
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Amount Dosage Poison Quality
Know that the philosopher has power over the stars, and not the stars over him.
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Himself Philosophy Power Stars
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
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
All drugs are poisons the benefit depends on the dosage.
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Benefit Dosage Drugs
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
Everything is a drug; it depends on the dose.
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Dosage Drugs
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

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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