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However, anyone to whom this happens should not leave his room upon awakening, should speak to no-on...

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

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The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start fro...

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

Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of th...

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Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plas...

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There is in each person, in every animal, bird and plant a star which mirrors, matches or is in some...

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The interpretation of dreams is a great art.

There is an earthly sun, which is the cause of all heat, and all who are able to see may see the sun...

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The dreams which reveal the supernatural are promises and messages that God sends us directly: they ...

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For God, who is in heaven, is in man. Where else can heaven be, if not in man? As we need it, it mus...

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Paracelsus: Essential Readings

Medicine rests upon four pillars—philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics. The first pillar is the...

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Paracelsus: Selected Writings

Death is the midwife of very great things.... It brings about the birth and rebirth of forms a thous...

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The Devil's Doctor: Paracelsus and the World of Renaissance Magic and Science

All things are poison and nothing is without poison, only the dose permits something not to be poiso...

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Be not another, if you can be yourself.

Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but a...

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From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, s...

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Paracelsus

Physician

Born: 1493-12-17

Died: 1541-09-24

Paracelsus (11 November or 17 December 1493 - 24 September 1541) was an alchemist, physician, astrologer, and general occultist. Born Phillip von Hohenheim, he later took up the name Philippus Theophrastus Aureolus Bombastus von Hohenheim, and still later used the name Paracelsus.More