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WORLD SOUL
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"The esoteric traditions of all cultures speak of the 'withinness' of things that seeks to externalize and to fulfill itself. If we think of our planet as an organic, growing system – a living being – then it, too, has an image of fulfillment buried within its seed center, an image that is using all of nature as its means of emergence."
The Findhorn Garden: Pioneering a New Vision of Man and Nature in Cooperation
(The Findhorn Community)
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"Beings develop. God reveals Himself in their development. The process of evolution is the resurrection of God from the tomb."
The Essential Steiner
(Rudolf Steiner, edited by Robert A. McDermott)
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"All participate in and reflect the same universal processes of growth. Our planet is informed with a life and a spirit which is gradually unfolding itself, realizing its latent potentials. This process repeats itself on every level of being."
The Findhorn Garden: Pioneering a New Vision of Man and Nature in Cooperation
(The Findhorn Community)
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"The one Master is found within; it is the soul….This one Master is a corporate part of the Whole, of the All-Soul."
The Light of the Soul
(Alice A. Bailey)
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"The Will of God and His laws can be discovered in the characters of the great Book of Nature."
Robert Fludd, Western Esoteric Masters Series
(William Huffman, editor)
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"There are vast ranges of consciousness all stemming from the One, the One who is this consciousness in all of us and whose plan it is that all parts of life become more aware of each other and more united in the great forward movement which is life, all life, becoming greater consciousness."
To Hear the Angels Sing
(Dorothy Maclean)
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"Spirit is crying out to us to become expressions of the gifts she offers in all we do and are. She is calling us to profound, radical, lasting change." Woodeene Koenig-Bricker, 'The Age of the Spirit'
The Fabric of the Future
(M. J. Ryan, editor)
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"The evolution of the cosmos is a creative play of consciousness for the purpose of revealing itself to itself in manifestation."
The Visionary Window: A Quantum Physicist's Guide to Enlightenment
(Amit Goswami, Ph.D.)
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"Nature herself can be felt as a power presiding over the molding of her budding and growing creatures, suiting their physical structure to the lives they have to live, and endowing them with strength and soul proportionate to the tasks she intends them to perform." Introduction to 'On Man In The Universe' by Aristotle, Wm. J. Black 1971, p. xxv
On Man In The Universe
(Aristotle, edited w/ intro by Louise Ropes Loomis)
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“According to Basilius Valentinus, the earth is inhabited by a spirit that is its life and soul. All created things, minerals included, draw their strength from the earth-spirit. This spirit is life…and it gives nourishment to all the living things it shelters in its womb.”
Collected Works
(Carl Jung)
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"The earth is not a dead body, but is inhabited by a spirit that is its life and soul. All created things, minerals included, draw their strength from the earth spirit. This spirit is life." Basilius Valentinus, Alchemist
The Way of The Earth, Encounters with Nature in Ancient and Contemporary Thought
(T. C. McLuhan)
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"Contemplation of a single flower may lead the seeker through. A plant displaying Nature's symmetry, a tree, a mountain range, a single peak, flowing river, a thundering cascade – each and all of these will serve the contemplative soul as entrance to the realm of the Real wherein Nature's Self abides." Geoffrey Hodson, 'The Greater Gods'
Angels and Mortals, Their Co-Creative Power
(Maria Parisen, compiler)
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"The earth is mother of all." Ugandan proverb
The Way of The Earth, Encounters with Nature in Ancient and Contemporary Thought
(T. C. McLuhan)
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"In physics, in biology, in aesthetics, this same Unitary Principle obtains; it is as though the tensions and pressures of conflicting forms in unstable irresolution ultimately find, by their own inner urgencies, and nature's purposive design, a mergent stability, a higher function in the mounting architecture….there seems to be a goal that is as inherently magnetic to all protoplasm and organism as to man himself."
Creative Vision for Art and for Life
(Richard Guggenheimer)
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"One who sees the Supersoul in every living being and equal everywhere does not degrade himself by his mind. Thus he approaches the transcendental destination." Bhagavad Gita, ch. 13, v. 29
Bhagavad-Gita As It Is
(A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada)
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"Deep, deep in the human mind there is that burning blazing light of the world consciousness."
The Origins of Pagan and Christian Beliefs
(Edward Carpenter)
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"Who else calls us back from the death of every error except that Life which cannot die, that wisdom which needs no light itself but enlightens every mind that needs it, by which the whole world is ruled, down even to the quivering leaves on the trees."
Confessions
(St. Augustine)
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“The world-soul is a natural force which is responsible for all the phenomena of life and the psyche.” Guillaume de Conches (1080-1154), Platonist who taught in Paris
Aurora Consurgens
(Marie Louise vonFranz)
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"Plato and Aristotle insist that within and beyond and behind the seemingly whimsical fatalities of Nature there is a divine power whose purposes, beauty, and urgency call upon us to assist, as best we can, the realization of its intentions (the famous 'entelechies' of Aristotle); and what Nature intends, as Aristotle so simple and eloquently argues, is excellence."
Origins of the Sacred
(Dudley Young)
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"The globe is a living being with incarnate power, life and consciousness. The Earth breathes. Its heart beats. It is the body of the Spirit of the Earth." Geoffrey Hodson, 'The Greater Gods'
Angels and Mortals, Their Co-Creative Power
(Maria Parisen, compiler)
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"It will not be long before no structure of truth or goodness can be built up without a central position being reserved for that soul [the soul of the world], for its influence and its universal mediation."
The Soul of the World
(Pierre Teilhard deChardin)
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“The world-soul pervades all things.”
Collected Works
(Carl Jung)
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"The world soul-spirit animates all bodies."
The History of Magic and the Occult
(Kurt Seligmann)
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"From the remotest times the Universal Soul or 'anima mundi', the material reflection of the Immateral Ideal, was the Source of Life of all beings."
The Secret Doctrine
(Helena P. Blavatsky)
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"The Light Supernal, that central Life or Energy, holds hid within Itself the purpose and plan towards which all Being tends."
A Treatise on White Magic
(Alice A. Bailey)
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