The art of medicine has its roots in the heart.
PARACELSUSWomen’s regular bleeding engenders phantoms.
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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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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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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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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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The human body is vapor materialized by sunshine mixed with the life of the stars.
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He who knows nothing, loves nothing. He who can do nothing understands nothing. He who understands nothing is worthless.
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Magic has power to experience and fathom things which are inaccessible to human reason. For magic is a great secret wisdom, just as reason is a great public folly.
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The art of medicine cannot be inherited, nor can it be copied from books
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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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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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Whether wine is a nourishment, medicine or poison is a matter of dosage.
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Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new.
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That which lives on reason lives against the spirit.
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Then God sends us such a messenger who appears to us in spirit, warns us, consoles us, teaches us, and brings us His good tidings.
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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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