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GOD/GODDESS
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"The incarnational aspect of Christianity reminds us that all of life is full of God. God is in all."
A Tree Full of Angels
(Macrina Wiederkehr)
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"There is an intelligence or mind, the first principle of all principles, the Supreme Idea on which all other ideas are grounded; the Monarch and Lawgiver of the universe; the ultimate substance from which all things derive their being and essence, the first and efficient Cause of all the order, and harmony, and beauty, and excellency, and goodness, which pervades the universe."
Isis Unveiled
(Helena P. Blavatsky)
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"All substance with which man creates, all forms which he builds, and all processes of concretion which he carries on, are created, built and carried on within the physical body of the Logos."
A Treatise on Cosmic Fire
(Alice A. Bailey)
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"Divine Wisdom lies at the foundation of everything."
The Imagination of Pentecost: Rudolf Steiner & Contemporary Spirituality
(Richard Leviton)
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"Everything comes from the greatest force, the power, God – whatever we want to call the Creator." Becky Hobbes, Songwriter
Angels: The Mysterious Messengers
(Rex Hauck, editor)
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"All the created universe swims, as it were, in the ocean of the divine being."
Thomas Aquinas, Spiritual Master
(Robert Barron)
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"The great central fact of the universe is that spirit of infinite life and power that is back of all, that manifests itself in and through all…God fills the universe alone, so that all is from Him and in Him, and there is nothing that is outside. He is the life of our life, our very life itself….God and the life of man are identically the same, and so are one." R. W. Trine, 'In Tune with the Infinite'
Varieties of Religious Experience, The
(William James)
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“God penetrates without hindrance through everything.”
Pseudo-Dionysius, The Complete Works
(John Farina, Editor-in-Chief)
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"God is One and All."
The Child Within Us Lives!, A Synthesis of Science, Religion and Metaphysics
(William Samuel)
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"Deity, in so far as it is apprehended by human intuition and love, appears to us as a vast, all-encompassing, all-penetrating Reality, which is both transcendent and immanent, static and dynamic, changeless yet changeful, ineffable yet personal."
The Mystic Way - A Psychological Study in Christian Origins
(Evelyn Underhill)
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"Filled with Brahman are the things we see, filled with Brahman are the things we see not. From out of Brahman floweth all that is: from Brahman all – yet is he still the same."
The Cosmic Womb, An Interpretation of Man's Relationship to the Infinite
(Arthur W. Osborn)
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"God is immanent in every atom, all-pervading, all-sustaining, all-evolving; He is its source and its end, its cause and its object, its centre and circumference; it is built on Him as its sure foundation, it breathes in Him as its encircling space; He is in everything and everything in Him."
The Ancient Wisdom
(Annie Besant)
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"God says, Let us make man in our image, after our own likeness." First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians, ch. XIV, v. 8
The Lost Books of The Bible and The Forgotten Books of Eden
(various)
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"In one word, LIFE is the stuff that God is."
Tomorrow's God, Our Greatest Spiritual Challenge
(Neale Donald Walsch)
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"Live innocently; God is here." Linnaeus (Carl vonLinne) (1707-1778), inscribed above the door of his bedroom
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 16th edition
(John Bartlett)
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"The whole universe is breathing. It's the Divine breathing." Brother Wayne Teasdale, board member of the Parliament of World Religions, 'The Heart of Meditation'
A Parliament of Souls, In Search of Global Spirituality
(Michael Tobias, Jane Morrison, Bettina Gray, editors)
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"In the depths of the unconscious psyche, the ancient Goddess is arising. She demands recognition and homage….If we grant the Goddess her due, she may compassionately guide us toward transformation."
Return of the Goddess
(Edward C. Whitmont, MD)
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"The divine comprises the collective soul of humanity and all life."
Entering the Castle: An Inner Path to God and Your Soul
(Caroline Myss)
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"God is the unity of all moments of time….God is the absolute now."
The Unity of Reality
(Michael vonBruck)
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"God is Substance as well as Force, Love as well as Will, Feminine as well as Masculine, Mother as well as Father." Edward Maitland, 'Anna Kingsford, Her Life, Letters, Diary and Work'
The Secret of the Golden Flower
(Richard Wilhelm, translator)
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"God has poured Himself into the universe."
The Essential Steiner
(Rudolf Steiner, edited by Robert A. McDermott)
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"That Supreme Personality of Godhead is, by His plenary portions, alive in the heart of every living entity."
Bhagavad-Gita As It Is
(A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada)
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"Besides God, no substance can be nor can be conceived." Proposition 14
Ethics
(Benedict Spinoza)
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'He is the Word making no sound, but penetrating the soul; not full of words, but powerful in effects; not sounding in the ears, but speaking the language of love to the affections." Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153)
Pathways of the Inner Life, An Anthology of Christian Spirituality
(Georges A. Barrois, editor)
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"Glory to you, Creator of the light, Enlightener of the world….Glory be to you for the visible light: the sun's radiance, the flame of fire; day and night, evening and morning. For the light invisible and intellectual; that which may be known of God, that which is written in the law, oracles of prophets, melody of psalms, instruction of proverbs, experience of histories – a light which never sets." Lancelot Andrews (1555-1626), 'Private Devotions'
Devotional Classics
(Richard J. Foster and James Bryan Smith, editors)
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