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

Quote by Paracelsus

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Selected Writings

This compilation brings together a diverse range of written works, showcasing the author's expertise and thoughtfulness across different subjects and styles. more

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Paracelsus, born Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, was a Swiss physician, alchemist, and astrologer. He is considered one of the pioneers of modern medicine and chemistry, having a profound impact on later generations. more

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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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“The interpretation of dreams is a great art.”

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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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Book:Paracelsus: Selected Writings

Source: Paracelsus: Selected Writings

“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.”

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“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.”

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Author:Paracelsus

“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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Book:The Hermetic and Alchemical Writings of Aureolus Philippus Theophrastus Bombast, of Hohenheim, Called Paracelsus the Great: Hermetic medicine and hermetic philosophy

Source: The Hermetic and Alchemical Writings of Aureolus Philippus Theophrastus Bombast, of Hohenheim, Called Paracelsus the Great: Hermetic medicine and hermetic philosophy

“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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Source: Four Treatises Together with Selected Writings