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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.

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The beginning of wisdom is the beginning of supernatural power.
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Beginning Power Wisdom
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
Women’s regular bleeding engenders phantoms.
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Blood System Woman
Medicine rests upon four pillars – philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.
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Ethics Medicine Philosophy Pillar
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
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
Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.
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Art Guide Medicine Pills Science Understand
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
Whether wine is a nourishment, medicine or poison is a matter of dosage.
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Dosage Medicine Nourishment Poison Wine
Let no man belong to another that can belong to himself.
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Himself Man
All arts lie in man, though not all are apparent. Awakening brings them out. To be taught is nothing; everything is in man waiting to be awakened.
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Art Awakening Lying Man
Man is ill because he is never still.
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Calm Man Sick
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
Fasting is the greatest remedy– the physician within.
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Cure Fast Greatness
The main reason for healing is love.
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Healing Love Reason
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

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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