All things are poisons. It is simply the dose that distinguishes between a poison and a remedy.

What sense would it make or what would it benfit a physician if he discovered the origin of the diseases but could not cure or alleviate them?

It would be an error to try to build the Kingdom of Heaven upon envy. For nothing that is founded on envy can thrive; it must have another root.

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.

Then God sends us such a messenger who appears to us in spirit, warns us, consoles us, teaches us, and brings us His good tidings.

Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.

It is said that a wise man rules over the stars, but this does not mean that he rules over the influences which come from the stars in the sky. It means that he rules over the powers which exist in his own constitution.