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That Whose Existence Is Necessary Must Necessarily Be One Essence.

The Theory Of Medicine, Therefore, Presents What Is Useful In Thought, But Does Not Indicate How It Is To Be Applied In Practice-the Mode Of Operation Of These Principles. The Theory, When Mastered, Gives Us A Certain Kind Of Knowledge. Thus We Say, For Example, There Are Three Forms Of Fevers And Nine Constitutions. The Practice Of Medicine Is Not The Work Which The Physician Carries Out, But Is That Branch Of Medical Knowledge Which, When Acquired, Enables One To Form An Opinion Upon Which To Base The Proper Plan Of Treatment.

Now It Is Established In The Sciences That No Knowledge Is Acquired Save Through The Study Of Its Causes And Beginnings, If It Has Had Causes And Beginnings; Nor Completed Except By Knowledge Of Its Accidents And Accompanying Essentials.

The More Brilliant The Lightning, The Quicker It Disappears.

God, The Supreme Being, Is Neither Circumscribed By Space, Nor Touched By Time; He Cannot Be Found In A Particular Direction, And His Essence Cannot Change. The Secret Conversation Is Thus Entirely Spiritual; It Is A Direct Encounter Between God And The Soul, Abstracted From All Material Constraints.