The book of Nature is that which the physician must read; and to do so he must walk over the leaves.
PARACELSUSThe most secure method, to ruin your health, is a SICK BED!
More Paracelsus Quotes
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And it is true, best is nothing concealed which shall not be discovered; for which cause a marvellous being shall come after me, who as yet lives not, and who shall reveal many things.
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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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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.
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It would be an error to try to build the Kingdom of Heaven upon envy. For nothing that is founded on envy can thrive; it must have another root.
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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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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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What sense would it make or what would it benfit a physician if he discovered the origin of the diseases but could not cure or alleviate them?
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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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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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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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Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.
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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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The art of medicine has its roots in the heart.
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Everything is a drug; it depends on the dose.
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Medicine rests upon four pillars – philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.
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