Robert Fludd

"But absolutely nothing remains of that one and only medicament of which Hippocrates makes mention in several places, and still less are its operations understood, inasmuch as no one now searches with …"

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

"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."

"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?"

"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. Ac…"

"But, good God, what is this when compared with that deep and true music of the wise, whereby the proportions of natural things are investigated, the harmonical concord and the qualities of the whole w…"