Paracelsus - Alchemy Quotes

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Alchemy is the art that separates what is useful from what is not by transforming it into its ultimate matter and essence.

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Although Alchemy has now fallen into contempt, and is even considered a thing of the past, the physicain should not be influenced by such judgements.

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Medicine rests upon four pillars - philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.

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This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.

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The great virtues that lie hidden in nature would never have been revealed if alchemy had not uncovered them and made them visible. Take a tree, for example; a man sees it in the winter, but he does not know what it is, he does not know what it conceals within itself, until summer comes and discloses the buds, the flowers, the fruit [...] Similarly the virtues in things remain concealed to man, unless the alchemist disclose them, as the summer reveals the nature of the tree.

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