Sunday Quote

Here's a line from the noted Renaissance alchemist and physician Paracelsus (1493-1541). It is from his work The Archidoxes of Magic, though its implications go well beyond that topic:

"But we men discover all that is hidden in the mountains by signs and outward correspondences; and it is thus that we find out all the pro­perties of herbs and all that is in stones. There is nothing in the depths of the seas, nothing in the heights of the firmament that man is not capable of discovering. There is no mountain so vast that it can hide from the gaze of man what is within it; it is revealed to him by cor­responding signs."