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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.

Paracelsus

The right dose differentiates a poison from a remedy.
PARACELSUS

Poison Remedy Right
What sense would it make or what would it benfit a physician if he discovered the origin of the diseases but could not cure or alleviate them?
PARACELSUS

Benefit Cure Discover Remedy
Let no man belong to another that can belong to himself.
PARACELSUS

Himself Man
Whether wine is a nourishment, medicine or poison is a matter of dosage.
PARACELSUS

Dosage Medicine Nourishment Poison Wine
Since nothing is so secret or hidden that it cannot be revealed, everything depends on the discovery of those things that manifest the hidden.
PARACELSUS

Hide Manifestation Reveal Secret
All drugs are poisons the benefit depends on the dosage.
PARACELSUS

Benefit Dosage Drugs
The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.
PARACELSUS

Live Patient Type Weird
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.
PARACELSUS

Arts Beginning Determination Imagination Man Uncertain Willing
For it is we who must pray for our daily bread, and if He grants it to us, it is only through our labour, our skill and preparation.
PARACELSUS

Ourselves Prayer Preparation Skill
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.
PARACELSUS

Art Desire Reveal Time
Could we but rightly comprehend the mind of man, nothing would be impossible to us upon the earth.
PARACELSUS

Earth Impossible Mindset Right
I am different. Let this not upset you.
PARACELSUS

Different Myself Upset Yourself
A little bit of beer is divine medicine.
PARACELSUS

Alcohol Divine Medicine
Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
PARACELSUS

Gold Man Nature
This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
PARACELSUS

Alchemy Magic Process
Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.
PARACELSUS

Acceptance Dreams Greatness True

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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