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THE DIVINE PLAN
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"He makes our life, disposition, and activity something one and divine….Formed of light, initiates in God's work, we shall be perfected and bring about perfection."
Pseudo-Dionysius, The Complete Works
(John Farina, Editor-in-Chief)
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"The late Mathew King was a contemporary Lakota (Native American) elder. He said, 'God gives His instructions to every creature, according to His plan for the world. He gave His instructions to all the things of nature."
Seven Paths to God, The Ways of the Mystic
(Joan Borysenko, Ph.D.)
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"A powerful spiritual attraction will eventually lead every pilgrim, in every kingdom, back to his one nativity – unity with the Eternal Spirit."
Rediscovering the Angels
(Flower A. Newhouse)
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"In the process of evolution, there is continuous expansion of mind until at-one-ment with the One Mind has been attained."
The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation
(W. Y. Evans-Wentz, compiler and editor)
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"The 'Holy Ghost' is an impelling force, creating wider consciousness and responsibility and thus enriched cognition. The real history of the world seems to be the progressive incarnation of the deity."
C. G. Jung: Letters, 1951-1961
(Gerhard Adler and Aniela Jaffe, editors)
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"We form a part of a great plan that is being unfolded in every octave of existence."
Rediscovering the Angels
(Flower A. Newhouse)
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"The enrichment and ferment of religious thought in our time has undoubtedly been caused by the revelation of the size and the unity of the world all around us and within us. All around us the physical sciences are endlessly extending the abysses of time and space, and cleaselessly discerning new relationships between the elements of the universe. Within us a whole world of affinities and interrelated sympathies, as old as the human soul, is being awakened by the stimulus of these great discoveries, and what has hitherto been dreamed rather than experienced is at last taking shape and consistency. Scholarly and discriminating among serious thinkers, simple or didactic among the half-educated, the aspirations towards a vaster and more organic One, and the premonitions of unknown forces and their application in new fields, are the same, and are emerging simultaneously on all sides. It is almost a commonplace today to find people who, quote naturally and unaffectedly, live in the explicit consciousness of being an atom or a cititzen of the universe."
The Divine Milieu
(Pierre Teilhard deChardin)
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"The more I examine myself, the more I discover this psychological truth: that no one lifts his little finger to do the smallest task unless moved, however obscurely, by the conviction that he is contributing infinitesimally (at least indirectly) to the building of something definite – that is to say, to your work, my God."
The Divine Milieu
(Pierre Teilhard deChardin)
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"Now we are being called upon to expand our definition of love, to understand it and embody it in all of its richness and complexity." Daphne Rose Kingma, 'A Profound Infusion of Love'
The Fabric of the Future
(M. J. Ryan, editor)
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"From the very beginning, all creatures intuit God. From the start, men and women intuit their prior Atman nature, and this acts like a huge unconscious magnet, so to speak, drawing them onward and upward toward that perfect release in the superconscious All."
The Atman Project
(Ken Wilber)
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"The challenge of the next millennium will be to develop an adequate scientific understanding of consciousness itself....the door is always open to directly experiencing this universal consciousness for ourselves." Dr. Amit Goswami, teacher of theoretical physics, 'How Consciousness Creates the Material Universe'
Experiencing the Soul
(Eliot Jay Rosen, editor)
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"The nature of life is a process of evolution in which we become progressively more whole, psychologically and spiritually."
Seven Paths to God, The Ways of the Mystic
(Joan Borysenko, Ph.D.)
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"Unity is destined to become more and more fully realized."
Writings in Time of War
(Pierre Teilhard deChardin)
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"Mankind is moving toward what I call the state of 'multi-unity' – often referred to as 'unity in diversity'. Because of this cyclo-historical fact (which has a concrete manifestation in the technological wonders potentially enabling every human being to communicate with all others) individuals dream of, long for, unification or integration."
Occult Preparations for a New Age
(Dane Rudhyar)
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"The ancient Sanskrit metaphor of Indra's Net and the modern formulation of quantum physics remind us that we are all woven together. The human challenge is to become fully aware of, full participants in, and fully conscious co-creators of the historic, the mythic, and the unitive realms, especially in times like ours when we are invited by the very depths of being to become co-creators of the future. As Zora Neale Hurston has said, 'There are years that ask questions and years that answer them.' I would add that these are the times. We are the people. And we are living in the answering years." Jean Houston, 'Living in One's and Future Myths'
The Fabric of the Future
(M. J. Ryan, editor)
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"There is no way in which to more rapidly release our own internal potentials than through the discovery of the wonders of the Universal Plan and the parts that each of us must play in the perfection of our world."
Lectures on Ancient Philosophy
(Manly P. Hall)
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"Humanity is in desperate need and that need must be met; only great and fundamental principles of living, covering the past and the present and providing a platform for the future, will really meet that human invocation."
The Reappearance of the Christ
(Alice A. Bailey)
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"The Force that builds the worlds is a conscious Force, the Existence which manifests itself in them is conscious Being and a perfect emergence of its potentialities in form is the sole object which we can rationally conceive for its manifestation of this world of forms."
A Greater Psychology, An Introduction to Sri Aurobindo's Psychological Thought
(Sri Aurobindo, edited by A. S. Dalal)
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"No matter by what line we trace the growth of the Plan, we come from a distant, dark and ignorant past to a present point wherein truer values are seen emerging. We begin to see what that Plan is and whither we are going. We are entering steadily into the world of spiritual realities, because 'there is a road from every natural group of facts to every spiritual reality in the universe; and the essential nature of mind forces it always in some degree to traverse this road.' (B. Bosanquet, 'The Value and Destiny of the Individual')."
From Bethlehem to Calvary
(Alice A. Bailey)
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"The energy of thought is for the good of all and for the furtherance of the Plan of God."
A Treatise on White Magic
(Alice A. Bailey)
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"The situation is as the goal determines it, and is experienced according to the goal."
A Course in Miracles
(Helen Schucman and William Thetford)
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"Because each of us has a certain pilgrimage of growth to achieve, we may compare ourselves to a traveler headed toward a specific destination. Our goal is spiritual unfoldment of an ever-widening experience."
Rediscovering the Angels
(Flower A. Newhouse)
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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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"Humanity, as a species, is part of a divine plan that is seeking expression through the process of evolution. We, as individuals, likewise have divine plans that are unique to each of us…..through listening to the heart in meditation, through the practice of self-awareness, through a commitment to fulfill our destiny, we discover and fulfill our divine plan." Robert Brumet, 'Power Shift: A New Paradigm for the New Millennium'
New Thoughts for a New Millennium
(Michael A. Maday, editor)
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“Perfect rhythms stream continually from the splendor of Abiding Destiny.”
Lectures on Ancient Philosophy
(Manly P. Hall)
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