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The interpretation of dreams is a great art.

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

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A mortal lives not through that breath that flows in and that flows out. The source of his life is another and this causes the breath to flow.

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Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.

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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 than heaven and earth.

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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.

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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.

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Medicine rests upon four pillars - philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.

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Often the remedy is deemed the highest good because it helps so many.

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

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Biography

Nationality: Swiss

Type: Scientist

Born: November 11th, 1493

Died: September 24th, 1541

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