"You should know that every star in the sky is nothing other than an herb grown in the spirit, which some earthly herb or other resembles....And the stars might be likened to the casting -mould, from which is the model from which the finished cast is formed....Thus every star begets through its formative power a kindred herb on the earth...And so every herb is an earthly star, and looks upwards towards the heavens, and every star is a celestial herb...And the celestial herb looks down upon the earth to the herbs which they have begotten. If you only knew the link, you would say: this star is called Stella rosmarini (the Star of Rosemary). This one is called Stella absythii (the Star of Absinth)."
-Theophrastus Paracelsus

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