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He who knows nothing, loves nothing. He who can do nothing understands nothing. He who understands nothing is worthless.

Paracelsus

Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.
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Gold Lying Medicine Power Virtue
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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Appearance Dreams God Greatness Natural Predicament Reveal Send
This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
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Alchemy Magic Process
All drugs are poisons the benefit depends on the dosage.
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Benefit Dosage Drugs
Medicine rests upon four pillars – philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.
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Ethics Medicine Philosophy Pillar
The highest degree of a medicine is Love.
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Degree Love Medicine One Liner
A little bit of beer is divine medicine.
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Alcohol Divine Medicine
The dose makes the poison.
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Dosage One Liner Poison
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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Breathe Flow Himself Live Source
Thoughts give birth to a creative force that is neither elemental nor sidereal. Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow. When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven.
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Born Creation Element Establishment Heaven Himself Man Thinking
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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Challenge Finding God Healing Health Man Nature Need Science
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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Alone Awakening Dreams Himself Room Talk
Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow.
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Art Creation Flow Heaven Source
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
The art of medicine has its roots in the heart.
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Art Health Medicine Root
Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
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Amount Cure Poison Portion Remedy

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