Paracelsus

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

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?

From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.

Although Alchemy has now fallen into contempt, and is even considered a thing of the past, the physicain should not be influenced by such judgements.

When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him... For such is the immensity of man that he is greater...

But 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?

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.

The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.

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.

This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.