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.
ParacelsusBut is not He who created it for the sake of the sick body more than the remedy? And is not He who cures the soul, which is more than the body, greater?
ParacelsusDetermined 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.
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