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Be not another, if you can be yourself.

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.

In every human being there is a special heaven, whole and unbroken.

This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.

The dose makes the poison...

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.

Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new ... but who can understand and measure its sharp breath, its mystery and its design?

The art of medicine cannot be inherited, nor can it be copied from books

Anyone who thinks that all fruits ripen at the same time as strawberries, knows nothing of grapes.

All things are poisons, for there is nothing without poisonous qualities. It is only the dose which makes a thing poison.

Fasting is the greatest remedy
the physician within.

Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.

Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.

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

The most secure method, to ruin your health, is a SICK BED!

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.

Alterius non sit qui suus esse potest. (Let no man belong to another that can belong to himself.)

Nothing is hidden so much that it wouldn't be revealed through its fruit.

Know that the philosopher has power over the stars, and not the stars over him.

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.

Often the remedy is deemed the highest good because it helps so many.

Could we but rightly comprehend the mind of man, nothing would be impossible to us upon the earth.

Every body consists of three ingredients. The names of these are Sulphur, Mercury, and Salt.

Let no one who can be his own belong to another.

Everything is a poison, nothing is a poison.
It is the dose that makes the poison

The beginning of wisdom is the beginning of supernatural power.

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.

That which lives on reason lives against the spirit.

Men who are devoid of the power of spiritual perception are unable to recognize anything that cannot be seen externally.

Man is ill because he is never still.

Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.

The interpretation of dreams is a great art.

I am different. Let this not upset you

All things are poisons. It is simply the dose that distinguishes between a poison and a remedy.

The art of medicine has its roots in the heart.

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.

Consider that we shouldn't call our brother a fool, since we don't know ourselves what we are.

As you talk, so is your heart.

All that man needs for health and healing has been provided by God in nature, the Challenge of science is to find it.

The main reason for healing is love.

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.

The right dose differentiates a poison from a remedy

Since nothing is so secret or hidden that it cannot be revealed, everything depends on the discovery of those things that manifest the hidden.

All drugs are poisons the benefit depends on the dosage.

Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.

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.

All arts lie in man, though not all are apparent. Awakening brings them out. To be taught is nothing; everything is in man waiting to be awakened.

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?

The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.

The highest degree of a medicine is Love.

Whether wine is a nourishment, medicine or poison is a matter of dosage

There is in each person, in every animal, bird and plant a star which mirrors, matches or is in some sense the same as a star in the heavens.

What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.

Women's regular bleeding engenders phantoms.

He who knows nothing, loves nothing.
He who can do nothing understands nothing.
He who understands nothing is worthless.

Everything is a drug; it depends on the dose.

A little bit of beer is divine medicine.

The book of Nature is that which the physician must read; and to do so he must walk over the leaves.

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.

This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.

The ultimate cause of human disease is the consequence of our transgression of the universal laws of life.

The human body is vapor materialized by sunshine mixed with the life of the stars.