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For one country is different from another; its earth is different, as are its stones, wines, bread, meat, and everything that grows and thrives in a specific region.

Paracelsus

The beginning of wisdom is the beginning of supernatural power.
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Beginning Power Wisdom
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
The dose makes the poison.
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Dosage One Liner Poison
Fasting is the greatest remedy– the physician within.
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Cure Fast Greatness
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
What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.
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Cure Eyes Nature See Tree
The art of medicine has its roots in the heart.
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Art Health Medicine Root
It should be forbidden and severely punished to remove cancer by cutting, burning, cautery, and other fiendish tortures. It is from nature that the disease comes, and from nature comes the cure, not from physicians.
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Burn Punishment Removal
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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Art Awakening Lying Man
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
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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Best Discover Live Reveal True
The art of medicine cannot be inherited, nor can it be copied from books
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Art Body Copy Inheritance Medicine
The ultimate cause of human disease is the consequence of our transgression of the universal laws of life.
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Consequence Human Law Reason Ultimate Universe
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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Art Desire Reveal Time
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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Benefit Cure Discover Remedy
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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Design Measurement Mystery Time Wind

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