Women’s regular bleeding engenders phantoms.
PARACELSUSWhat we should be after death, we have to attain in life, i.e. holiness and bliss. Here on earth the Kingdom of God begins.
More Paracelsus Quotes
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The book of Nature is that which the physician must read; and to do so he must walk over the leaves.
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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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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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Dreams are not without meaning wherever they may come from — from fantasy, from the elements, or from another inspiration.
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Know that the philosopher has power over the stars, and not the stars over him.
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The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.
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Nothing is hidden so much that it wouldn’t be revealed through its fruit.
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This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.
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A mortal lives not through that breath that flows in and that flows out. The source of his life is another and this causes the breath to flow.
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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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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.
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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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Everything is a drug; it depends on the dose.
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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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He who knows nothing, loves nothing. He who can do nothing understands nothing. He who understands nothing is worthless.
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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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Let no one who can be his own belong to another.
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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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A little bit of beer is divine medicine.
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The human body is vapor materialized by sunshine mixed with the life of the stars.
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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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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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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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Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
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Be not another, if you can be yourself.
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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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