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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.

Paracelsus

Consider that we shouldn’t call our brother a fool, since we don’t know ourselves what we are.
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Brother Call Fools Ourselves
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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Art Guide Medicine Pills Science Understand
All things are poisons, for there is nothing without poisonous qualities. It is only the dose which makes a thing poison.
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Amount Dosage Poison Quality
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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Creation Earth Establishment Heaven Man Work
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
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
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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Appearance God Goodness Himself
It would be an error to try to build the Kingdom of Heaven upon envy. For nothing that is founded on envy can thrive; it must have another root.
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Build Error Heaven Thrive
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
Women’s regular bleeding engenders phantoms.
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Blood System Woman
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
Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
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Gold Man Nature
I am different. Let this not upset you.
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Different Myself Upset Yourself
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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Fools Ourselves Reality Regard Time
That which lives on reason lives against the spirit.
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Live Reason Spirit
Dreams are not without meaning wherever they may come from — from fantasy, from the elements, or from another inspiration.
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Dreams Element Fantasy Meaning

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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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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