Paracelsus
Paracelsus
Paracelsus, born Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, was a Swiss German philosopher, physician, botanist, astrologer, and general occultist. He is credited as the founder of toxicology. He is also a famous revolutionary for utilizing observations of nature, rather than referring to ancient texts, something of radical defiance during his time. He is credited for giving zinc its name, calling it zincum. Modern psychology often also credits him for being the first to note that some diseases are rooted in...
NationalitySwiss
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth11 November 1493
CountrySwitzerland
The interpretation of dreams is a great art.
Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow.
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.
The art of medicine has its roots in the heart.
Medicine is not merely a science but an art. The character of the physician may act more powerfully upon the patient than the drugs employed.
Determined will is the beginning of all magical operations. It is because men do not perfectly imagine and believe the result, that the (occult) arts are so uncertain, while they might be perfectly certain.
The art of medicine cannot be inherited, nor can it be copied from books
All arts lie in man, though not all are apparent. Awakening brings them out. To be taught is nothing; everything is in man waiting to be awakened.
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.
The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.
That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it.... 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. - The Dream Game
Then their imagination could work wonders upon wonders and invoke the shades of the philosophers, who would instruct them in their art.
Often the remedy is deemed the highest good because it helps so many.
This means that each country, in addition to the general properties common to the whole world, also has its own specific properties.