Paracelsus (1493 – 1541)
Alchemist, physician, astrologer, and general occultist.
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.
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.
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.
The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.
As you talk, so is your heart.
He who wants to govern must have insight into the hearts of men and act accordingly.
If you have been given a talent, exercise it freely and happily like the sun: give everyone from your splendour.
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.
God has given to all things their course and decided how high and how far they may go, not higher, not lower.
Practice humility at first with man and only then before God. He who despises man, has also no respect for God.
The physician should look for the force and nature of illness at its source.