This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
PARACELSUSMedicine 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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Everything is a drug; it depends on the dose.
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The ultimate cause of human disease is the consequence of our transgression of the universal laws of life.
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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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Consider that we shouldn’t call our brother a fool, since we don’t know ourselves what we are.
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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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Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes.
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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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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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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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Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
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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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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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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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Be not another, if you can be yourself.
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Thoughts give birth to a creative force that is neither elemental nor sidereal. Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow. When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven.
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