Paracelsus (1493 – 1541)
Alchemist, physician, astrologer, and general occultist.
In us there is the Light of Nature, and that Light is God.
The physician should look for the force and nature of illness at its source.
Practice humility at first with man and only then before God. He who despises man, has also no respect for God.
God has given to all things their course and decided how high and how far they may go, not higher, not lower.
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.
If you have been given a talent, exercise it freely and happily like the sun: give everyone from your splendour.
He who wants to govern must have insight into the hearts of men and act accordingly.
As you talk, so is your heart.
The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.
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.
We should become angels and not devils, that’s why we have been created and born into the world. Therefore be and stick to what God has chosen you for.
Thoughts give birth to a creative force that is neither elemental nor sidereal. Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow. When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him. ... For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth.
Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.
He who conquers his enemy with meekness, wins fame.
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.
What else is the help of medicine than love?
The art of medicine has its roots in the heart. If your heart is false, then also the doctor in you is false. If it is fair, then also the doctor is fair.
We have Divine Wisdom in the mortal body.Whatever does harm to the body, ruins the House of the Eternal.
God, our Father, has given us the life and the art of healing to protect and maintain it.
God did not create the planets and stars with the intention that they should dominate man, but that they, like other creatures, should obey and serve him.