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.

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?

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.

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.

Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes.

This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.

All things are poisons, for there is nothing without poisonous qualities. It is only the dose which makes a thing poison.