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.
PARACELSUSOnce 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.
More Paracelsus Quotes
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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 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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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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Every body consists of three ingredients. The names of these are Sulphur, Mercury, and Salt.
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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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Although Alchemy has now fallen into contempt, and is even considered a thing of the past, the physicain should not be influenced by such judgements.
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Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes.
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The art of medicine cannot be inherited, nor can it be copied from books
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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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That which lives on reason lives against the spirit.
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For it is we who must pray for our daily bread, and if He grants it to us, it is only through our labour, our skill and preparation.
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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.
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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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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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I am different. Let this not upset you.
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