Thoughts give birth to a creative force that is neither elemental nor sidereal. Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow. When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven.

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

In every human being there is a special heaven, whole and unbroken.

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

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

All numbers are multiples of one, all sciences converge to a common point, all wisdom comes out of one center, and the number of wisdom is one.

Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.