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This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.

Paracelsus

Dreams are not without meaning wherever they may come from — from fantasy, from the elements, or from another inspiration.
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Dreams Element Fantasy Meaning
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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Herself Light Nature Understand Visible
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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Arts Beginning Determination Imagination Man Uncertain Willing
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
The highest degree of a medicine is Love.
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Degree Love Medicine One Liner
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
Man is ill because he is never still.
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Calm Man Sick
The main reason for healing is love.
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Healing Love Reason
The art of medicine has its roots in the heart.
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Art Health Medicine Root
But is not He who created it for the sake of the sick body more than the remedy? And is not He who cures the soul, which is more than the body, greater?
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Body Creation Greatness Sick Soul
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 human body is vapor materialized by sunshine mixed with the life of the stars.
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Body Human Life Material Stars Sunshine
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
Be not another, if you can be yourself.
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Be Yourself Original
The art of medicine cannot be inherited, nor can it be copied from books
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Art Body Copy Inheritance Medicine
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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Fools Ourselves Reality Regard Time

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