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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.

Paracelsus

All numbers are multiples of one, all sciences converge to a common point, all wisdom comes out of one center, and the number of wisdom is one.
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Mathematics Point Science Wisdom
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
This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
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Alchemy Magic Process
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
A little bit of beer is divine medicine.
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Alcohol Divine Medicine
Men who are devoid of the power of spiritual perception are unable to recognize anything that cannot be seen externally.
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Man Perception Power See Spiritual
Could we but rightly comprehend the mind of man, nothing would be impossible to us upon the earth.
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Earth Impossible Mindset Right
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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Earth Element Man Planet Stars World
All drugs are poisons the benefit depends on the dosage.
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Benefit Dosage Drugs
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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Attack Body Fight Health Himself Nature Sick
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
It is said that a wise man rules over the stars, but this does not mean that he rules over the influences which come from the stars in the sky. It means that he rules over the powers which exist in his own constitution.
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Constitution Existence Influence Man Rule Wisdom
Nothing is hidden so much that it wouldn’t be revealed through its fruit.
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Hide Result Reveal
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
This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.
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Alchemy Chemist Doctor Medicine Office
Some children are born from heaven and others are born from hell, because each human being has his inherent tendencies, and these tendencies belong to his spirit, and indicate the state in which he existed before he was born.
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Born Children Existence Heaven Hell Human State

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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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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