That which lives on reason lives against the spirit.
PARACELSUSWhen 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.
More Paracelsus Quotes
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Let no man belong to another that can belong to himself.
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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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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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Dreams are not without meaning wherever they may come from — from fantasy, from the elements, or from another inspiration.
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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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He who knows nothing, loves nothing. He who can do nothing understands nothing. He who understands nothing is worthless.
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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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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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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.
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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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Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.
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What we should be after death, we have to attain in life, i.e. holiness and bliss. Here on earth the Kingdom of God begins.
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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?
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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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All that man needs for health and healing has been provided by God in nature, the Challenge of science is to find it.
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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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The most secure method, to ruin your health, is a SICK BED!
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As you talk, so is your heart.
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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.
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It should be forbidden and severely punished to remove cancer by cutting, burning, cautery, and other fiendish tortures. It is from nature that the disease comes, and from nature comes the cure, not from physicians.
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The human body is vapor materialized by sunshine mixed with the life of the stars.
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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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However, anyone to whom this happens should not leave his room upon awakening, should speak to no-one, but remain alone and sober until everything comes back to him, and he recalls the dream.
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Every body consists of three ingredients. The names of these are Sulphur, Mercury, and Salt.
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Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.
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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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