Source Book in Ancient Philosophy (1907), The Golden Sayings of Democritus
“We have Divine Wisdom in the mortal body. Whatever does harm to the body, ruins the House of the Eternal.”
Paracelsus - Doctor of our Time (1992)
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Swiss physician and alchemist 1493–1541Related quotes
“We are being sucked into the body of eternity.”
Terrence McKenna's "2012 Eternity" video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkSxKGkNs6M
“Nature is all the body of God we mortals will ever see.”
As quoted in The Duality of Vision : Genius and Versatility in the Arts (1970) by Walter Sorrell, p. 28
Source: Emir's Education In The Proper Use of Magical Powers (1979), p. 96-97
XX. On Transmigration of Souls, and how Souls are said to migrate into brute beasts.
On the Gods and the Cosmos
Context: It is the natural duty of souls to do their work in the body; are we to suppose that when once they leave the body they spend all eternity in idleness? Again, if the souls did not again enter into bodies, they must either be infinite in number or God must constantly be making new ones. But there is nothing infinite in the world; for in a finite whole there cannot be an infinite part. Neither can others be made; for everything in which something new goes on being created, must be imperfect. And the world, being made by a perfect author, ought naturally to be perfect.
Small Catechism http://www.ccel.org/ccel/luther/smallcat.text.i.5.html|The, The Fifth Commandment, (1529)