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VENUS, the planet of mother love and the guiding star of happy lovers, enters into the great work with the zest of a real artist, painting her substance with heaven's own robe of blue and then dipping it in a roseate hue that promises eternal bliss to her devotees.

She it is that exalts the vision of the poet and the mind of the seer above the external, bringing out the romance of even the most commonplace experiences, pointing out to the staid student of physics the glory of the inner and divine spark that ever eludes the searching eyes of the unbeliever, and lifting her mystical veil only to the faithful neophyte who searches with childlike fervor for truth, and travels the middle path of the Christ in the midst.

And as she journeys through the twelve houses she builds the mystical body of attraction, the divine woman behind the masculine first principle. Thus she becomes a mother of men, or the form that houses the god within, for Venus as a planetary power represents and thus symbolizes the spirit of the Second Logos, the Word, whose holy vibrations eventually incarnate in the corporeal body, working through the mystical third person and the fifth essence in the creative drama wherein this entire planetary system unites in the mystical initiatory labor of individualizing gods into men and men into gods, by the law of the cross and the crown.

— She: The Woman-Man (1935) by Aleta B. Bake

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Born Theophrastus von Hohenheim, he adopted the name "Paracelsus," meaning roughly "greater than Celsus," a reference to the ancient Roman medical writer Aulus Cornelius Celsus.

Paracelsus challenged the medical orthodoxy of his day, rejecting many teachings that had been accepted since ancient Greece. Instead of relying solely on classical texts, he argued that physicians should learn from direct observation, experience, and experimentation. He traveled extensively across Europe, studying folk remedies, mining diseases, and local healing practices.

He is often called the father of toxicology because of his famous principle: "The dose makes the poison." His insight was that any substance can be harmful in large enough quantities, while even dangerous substances can be beneficial in the right dose. This idea remains a cornerstone of modern pharmacology and toxicology.

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