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?
PARACELSUSMen who are devoid of the power of spiritual perception are unable to recognize anything that cannot be seen externally.
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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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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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Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.
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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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As you talk, so is your heart.
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What we should be after death, we have to attain in life, i.e. holiness and bliss. Here on earth the Kingdom of God begins.
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Know that the philosopher has power over the stars, and not the stars over him.
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Medicine rests upon four pillars – philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.
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Men who are devoid of the power of spiritual perception are unable to recognize anything that cannot be seen externally.
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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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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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Once 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.
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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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The most secure method, to ruin your health, is a SICK BED!
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The highest degree of a medicine is Love.
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