| SPIRIT OF THE WORLD |
| MANY VOICES / ONE TRUTH |
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THE RELIGIONS
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"The source of human consciousness, spirit, or power is considered Divine in most religious and cultural traditions, from the ancient Greek and Hindu teachings to the Chinese and Mayan. Most every culture's myths recount Divine interaction with humanity."
Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing
(Caroline Myss)
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"God is working simultaneously through every religion, and utilizing all that is good in the way of devotion and self-sacrifice in each."
The Inner Life
(Charles W. Leadbeater)
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"The common origin of the human race is proved by the universal themes of folklore [and] legend….Orientalism, the study of comparative religion, mythology, cultural anthropology, the history of civilization and art, esotericism, psychoanalysis, and symbolological research have all combined to provide us with ample material to substantiate psychological truth, and this essential oneness."
A Dictionary of Symbols
(J. E. Cirlot)
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"The living heart of all religion is experienced oneness with the Divine and its expression by means of wisely directed, loving service."
Call to the Heights, Guidance on the Pathway to Self-illumination
(Geoffrey Hodson)
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"The Maharshis and Siddhas, mighty Teachers of the past, exist inscrutably within the radiant Being. All are there, and he who worships one draws near to them all." Krishna Prem, 'The Yoga of the Bhagavad Gita'
The Cosmic Womb, An Interpretation of Man's Relationship to the Infinite
(Arthur W. Osborn)
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"On the surface, the various religions might appear to offer very different teachings about the nature of reality and the means toward achieving salvation or liberation. But once one begins to pare away cultural trappings and the additions and corrections imposed by later commentators and translators, a basic teaching begins to emerge which is common to them: we are, at our cores, united."
The Global Brain, Speculations on the Evolutionary Leap to Planetary Consciousness
(Peter Russell)
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"Every spiritual tradition contains teachings that say, essentially, God is not hiding; God is present here and now, within and without, always and ever, in every here and every now….'Wherever you turn is God's face', said the prophet Muhammad, who also said, 'Whoever knows himself knows God.' Why? Because God is in us as us."
Making Peace With God, A Practical Guide
(Harold Bloomfield, M.D. & Philip Goldberg, Ph.D.)
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"The human world, particularly as understood in the inspiring philosophy and ideals of a sacred tradition, is essentially about 'lifting up'. As all life draws up to the light, so is the human psyche attracted to the elevating principles which act as constant regenerators to the forms and beings of our world." Keith Critchlow, 'What Is Sacred in Architecture?"
Homage to Pythagoras, Rediscovering Sacred Science
(Christopher Bamford, editor)
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"The truths contained in the scriptural teachings of the different religious traditions are meant to unite us, not separate us. Literal interpretation creates separation, whereas symbolic interpretation – seeing that all of them address the identical design of our spiritual natures – brings us together."
Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing
(Caroline Myss)
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"Freedom of religion is a tenet of the law and of the Lord that allows for agreement in disagreement, whereby the children of God agree to disagree in love, in respect, and in honor for the many rays of the Son Consciousness that lead to the one path of the ineffable light."
The Human Aura
(Kuthumi and Djwal Kul)
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"Separate and unique as each religion might appear to be, it is possible to see a common theme underlying them all. Walter Stace, who was professor of philosophy at Princeton, studied at length the writings and teachings of the great religious teachers and came to the conclusion that the central core of all the major religions was the experience of oneness with creation – what Huxley called the perennial philosophy."
The Global Brain, Speculations on the Evolutionary Leap to Planetary Consciousness
(Peter Russell)
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“All the world religions, if properly understood, loved, and lived lead to the same ‘inner Temple’, to the One God and God-Experience.”
Divine Light and Fire, Experiencing Esoteric Christianity
(Peter Roche deCoppens)
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"We need the courage as well as the inclination to consult, and profit from, the wisdom traditions of mankind." E. F. Schumacher
The Quotable Spirit
(Peter Lorie and Manuela D Mascetti, editors)
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"Throughout it all the great themes of righteousness or duty, of love or devotion, of truth in word, thought, and deed, of reward and punishment or cause and effect or action and reaction, of self-sacrifice, generosity, hospitality, remain the basic seeds of all civilizations, are present in all religions and are as fundamental and vital today as ever before." Jeanine Miller, 'The Relevance of the Vedas to Modern Man'
The American Theosophist
(various)
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"My heart has become capable of every form: It is a pasture for gazelles and a monastery for Christian monks…and the pilgrim's Ka'ba, and the tablets of the Torah, and the Book of the Koran. I follow the religion of Love; whatever way love's camel takes, that is my religion, my faith." Ibn Arabi (1165-1240), Spanish Sufi philosopher
The Essential Mystics
(Andrew Harvey)
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"Religion…is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people." Ernest Renan (1823-1892), 'Les Apotres'
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 16th edition
(John Bartlett)
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"Think of the enlightened ones as having earned the equivalent of an advanced degree. Their descriptions of communion with the Infinite are so remarkably similar, despite their differences in language, culture and religious context, that they can be considered as reliable as repeated observations in science."
Making Peace With God, A Practical Guide
(Harold Bloomfield, M.D. & Philip Goldberg, Ph.D.)
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"The world outside us IS really most deeply akin to ourselves….It is this perception, this conviction of our essential unity with the whole of creation, which lay from the first at the base of all Religion."
The Origins of Pagan and Christian Beliefs
(Edward Carpenter)
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"Respecting the diversity of all religions need not obscure the underlying unity."
The Visionary Window: A Quantum Physicist's Guide to Enlightenment
(Amit Goswami, Ph.D.)
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"The Wisdom Teaching, down the ages, has come forth from God and thrown the needed light upon the ways of men. It has taken the form outwardly of the world religions, but has always presented to those whose eyes were open those esoteric truths and those clear instructions whereby man can find his own soul and his way back to the centre of life."
The Finding of the Third Eye
(Vera Stanley Alder)
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“An inner infallible sense in the psyche of humankind contains one and the same wisdom, no matter in which century or in which religious tradition it appears.”
Mary Within
(David Richo)
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"This experience of nowness can join together the vastness of primordial wisdom with both the wisdom of past traditions and the realities of contemporary life. So in that way, you begin to see how the world of sacredness can be created altogether."
Shambhala
(Chogyam Trungpa)
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"The enlightened person begins to experience a spontaneous love for every creature and every thing, whatever their qualities or attributes. The growth of such a love is a recurrent theme in most religions."
The Global Brain, Speculations on the Evolutionary Leap to Planetary Consciousness
(Peter Russell)
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“People of different societies and cultures the world over think and feel and react in similar ways. They have the same types of dreams, hopes, fears, problems….and all this is reflected partly in language, myth, and literature, partly in folklore, ritual, and religion.”
Arcana Mundi
(Georg Luck)
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"In the heart and roots of each religion, one can find God, the Source and Essence of all, acting by various means but with the same fundamental purpose – to bring about the incarnation, evolution, actualization, and redemption of human beings in this earthly life."
Divine Light and Fire, Experiencing Esoteric Christianity
(Peter Roche deCoppens)
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