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"Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow."

"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."

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

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"If we want to make a statement about a man's nature on the basis of his physiognomy, we must take everything into account; it is in his distress that a man is tested, for then his nature is revealed."
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