Paracelsus 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 nameParacelsus.
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Quotes Destruction perfects that which is good; for the good cannot appear on account of that which conceals it. The good is least good whilst it is thus concealed. The concealment must be removed so that the good may be able freely to appear in its own brightness. For example, the mountain, the sand, the earth, or the stone in which a metal has grown is such a concealment. Each one of the visible metals is a concealment of the other six metals.
Practice humility at first with man and only then before God. He who despises man, has also no respect for God.
Hermetic and Alchemical Writings(1894), edited by Arthur Edward Waite; Coelum Philosophorumor Book of Vexations, originally 1543 All is interrelated. Heaven and earth, air and water . All are but one thing; not four, not two and not three, but one. Where they are not together, there is only an incomplete piece. Paracelsus - Collected WritingsVol. I (1926) edited by Bernhard Aschner, p. 110
Paracelsus - Doctor of our Time (1992) Paracelsus - Arzt unserer Zeit(1992) by Frank Geerk As you talk, so is your heart. All substances are poisons; there is none which is not a poison. The right dose dif ferentiates a poison and a remedy. [Die dritte Defension wegen des Schreibens der neuen Rezepte. In: Septem Defensiones 1538. Werke Bd. 2, Darmstadt 1965, S. 510. zeno.org] Belief and work, knowledge and action are one and the same thing. Consider that we shouldn’t call our brother a fool, since we don’t know ourselves what we are. God has given to all things their course and decided how high and how far they may go, not higher , not lower. God, our Father, has given us the life and theart of healing to protect and maintain it. He who conquers his enemy with meekness, wins fame. He who wants to govern must have insight into the hearts of men and act accordingly .