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But absolutely nothing remains of that one and only medicament of which Hippocrates makes mention (darkly and mystically, I admit) in several places, and still less are its operations understood, inasmuch as no one now searches with lynx-like eyes into the profound depths of true natural philosophy, to gain an accurate knowledge of its composition and its virtues.

— Robert Fludd

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According to Waite: "In Medicine he laments the loss of that universal panacea referred to by Hippocrates."

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Geomancy was a natural art, drawing on the inborn powers of the human soul to glean information from the larger soul of the world.

Which of us has, at this day, the ability to discover those true and vivific numbers whereby the elements are united and bound to one another?

The art, also, of alchemy or chemistry is surrounded with such insoluble enigmas that we can scarcely gain anything but ignorance therefrom, and ignotum per ignotius.

Particulars are frequently fallible, but universals never. Occult philosophy lays bare Nature in her complete nakedness, and alone contemplates the wisdom of universals by the eyes of intelligence. Accustomed to partake of the rivers which flow from the Fountain of Life, it is unacquainted with grossness and with clouded waters.

Arthur Edward Waite (1887)

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