The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.
PARACELSUSTime is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new… but who can understand and measure its sharp breath, its mystery and its design?
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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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Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new… but who can understand and measure its sharp breath, its mystery and its design?
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Every body consists of three ingredients. The names of these are Sulphur, Mercury, and Salt.
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As you talk, so is your heart.
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Men who are devoid of the power of spiritual perception are unable to recognize anything that cannot be seen externally.
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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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From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.
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All that man needs for health and healing has been provided by God in nature, the Challenge of science is to find it.
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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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This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.
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The human body is vapor materialized by sunshine mixed with the life of the stars.
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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.
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Nature is a light, and by looking at Nature in her own light we will understand her. Visible Nature may be seen in her visible light; invisible Nature may become visible if we acquire the power to perceive her invisible light.
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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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The beginning of wisdom is the beginning of supernatural power.
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