134 PARACELSUS 



"As far as the patient is concerned, there are three 

 things required of him to effect a cure : his disease 

 should be a natural one/ he should have a certain 

 amount of will, and a certain amount of vital energy. 

 If these conditions are not present, no cure can be 

 effected; for even Christ could not benefit those who 

 were not receptive of His power. This power is Faith, 

 and it should be present in the patient as well as in the 

 physician. Christ did not say to the sick, ' I cured thee,* 

 but He said, ' Thy faith made thee whole.' It is not the 

 physician who heals the sick, but it is God who heals 

 him through Nature, and the physician is merely the 

 instrument through which God acts upon the nature of 

 the patient. The patient should therefore have faith in 

 God and confidence in his physician. God acts accord- 

 ing to universal law, and makes no exceptions in special 

 cases ; but all power comes from God, and may be guided 

 properly or its action impeded by the physician. God 

 kills no one ; it is Nature which causes people to die. 

 God is Life, and the physician in whom the power of 

 God is manifest will be a fountain of life and health to 

 the sick. To God belongs the praise, and to man the 

 blame. Those who attempt to cure diseases by their 

 own power, without recognising the eternal source of all 

 power, will never know the deeper mysteries of Nature. 

 They deal with lies, and do not perform the will of God ; 

 and if they murder their patients, it is they themselves 

 who are responsible for it." 



" Those who attempt to cure the sick by means of what 

 they learn in books, and without using their own judg- 

 ment, are like the foolish virgins mentioned in the Bible, 

 who wasted the oil from their lamps, and tried to borrow 

 light from others. Those whose minds are open for the 

 reception of the truth, who are charitable to all, who love 

 their art for its own sake, and seek to do the will of God, 

 without any thought of self, they belong to my school, 



^ Not due to unexhausted Karma. 



