The book of Nature is that which the physician must read; and to do so he must walk over the leaves.
This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
As you talk, so is your heart.
Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow.
For one country is different from another; its earth is different, as are its stones, wines, bread, meat, and everything that grows and thrives in a specific region.
For it is we who must pray for our daily bread, and if He grants it to us, it is only through our labour, our skill and preparation.
All drugs are poisons; the benefit depends on the dosage.
The interpretation of dreams is a great art.
The dreams which reveal the supernatural are promises and messages that God sends us directly: they are nothing but His angels, His ministering spirits, who usually appear to us when we are in a great predicament.
Consider that we shouldn’t call our brother a fool, since we don’t know ourselves what we are.
If we want to make a statement about a man’s nature on the basis of his physiognomy, we must take everything into account; it is in his distress that a man is tested, for then his nature is revealed.
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.
There is in each person, in every animal, bird and plant a star which mirrors, matches or is in some sense the same as a star in the heavens.
There is an earthly sun, which is the cause of all heat, and all who are able to see may see the sun; and those who are blind and cannot see him may feel his heat. There is an Eternal Sun, which is the source of all wisdom, and those whose spiritual senses have awakened to life will see that sun and be conscious of His existence; but those who have not attained spiritual consciousness may yet feel His power by an inner faculty which is called Intuition.
One who lives within reason lives without the spirit.
Death is the midwife of very great things... It brings about the birth and rebirth of forms a thousand times improved. This is the highest mystery of God.
All things are poison, and nothing is without poison.
He who knows nothing, loves nothing. He who can do nothing understands nothing. He who understands nothing is worthless. But he who understands also loves, notices, sees... The more knowledge is inherent in a thing, the greater the love... Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes.
Sorcery has been called Magic: but Magic is Wisdom, and there is no wisdom in Sorcery.
To understand correctly the meaning of the words Alchemy and Astrology, it is necessary to understand and to realize the intimate relationship and identity of the Microcosm and Macrocosm, and their mutual interaction.
Magic is natural, for nature itself is magic.