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.
PARACELSUSWomen’s regular bleeding engenders phantoms.
More Paracelsus Quotes
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Could we but rightly comprehend the mind of man, nothing would be impossible to us upon the earth.
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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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Fasting is the greatest remedy– the physician within.
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Medicine is not merely a science but an art. The character of the physician may act more powerfully upon the patient than the drugs employed.
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The most secure method, to ruin your health, is a SICK BED!
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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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If we want to make a statement about a man’s nature on the basis of his physiognomy, we must take everything into account; it is in his distress that a man is tested, for then his nature is revealed.
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All things are poisons. It is simply the dose that distinguishes between a poison and a remedy.
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When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him… For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth.
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Whether wine is a nourishment, medicine or poison is a matter of dosage.
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The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.
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Dreams are not without meaning wherever they may come from — from fantasy, from the elements, or from another inspiration.
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Be not another, if you can be yourself.
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This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
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Medicine rests upon four pillars – philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.
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