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THE DIVINE PLAN
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"The movement of the cosmos towards the highest degree of consciousness represents the essence of biological evolution."
Let Me Explain
(Pierre Teilhard deChardin)
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"We are destined by Eternal Providence to become the fullness of ourselves….we shall find perfection in the consummation of the destiny for which we were first conceived."
Lectures on Ancient Philosophy
(Manly P. Hall)
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"The human saga is a wonderful, necessary part of the Plan. Nothing about the human experience has been happenstance or outside the perfect Plan of the One."
The Child Within Us Lives!, A Synthesis of Science, Religion and Metaphysics
(William Samuel)
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"The human race is moving to critical mass. The day of atonement – that is, of at-ONE-ment – is near at hand."
Tomorrow's God, Our Greatest Spiritual Challenge
(Neale Donald Walsch)
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"Something within me lies far beyond the ups and down of a busy life, something that represents the ongoing yearning of the human spirit, the yearning for a final return, an unambiguous sense of safety, a lasting home."
The Return of the Prodigal Son, A Story of Homecoming
(Henri J. M. Nouwen)
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"Now we are moving back toward community – because we need it to happen." Gay Luce
The Mystic Hours, A Daybook of Interspiritual Wisdom & Devotion
(Wayne Teasdale)
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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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"Beings are what in the divine plan they were designed to be: steps to their Origin."
Fire Within: St. Teresa of Avila, St. John of the Cross, and the Gospel - on Prayer'
(Thomas Dubay, S.M.)
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"There is a drive subtly and yet relentlessly pushing the human species forward to fulfillment of the purpose of awakening." 97
Agartha: The Essential Guide to Personal Transformation in the New Era
(Meredith L. Young)
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"We can try to universalize our attitudes towards others, experience each as an expression of the One Life at a particular level of unfoldment, and begin to actualize universal love and compassion. As we work consciously to develop our mental and spiritual capacities, we move in the direction of the whole cosmic evolutionary process."
Ancient Wisdom, Modern Insight
(Shirley Nicholson)
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"As the number of Self-realized men and women of goodwill increase, humanity as a whole will progress to its natural state of abundance on all levels."
Soul Centered Astrology, A Key to Your Expanding Self
(Alan Oken)
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"Nothing is lost, nothing is wasted, everyone finally reaches the same goal of perfection."
The Finding of the Third Eye
(Vera Stanley Alder)
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"The grand spiral of evolutionary life is carried forward slowly, imperceptibly, but always progressively."
Encyclopedia of Ancient and Forbidden Knowledge
(Zolar)
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"The universe in its entirety must be regarded as one gigantic process, a process of becoming, of attaining new levels of existence and organisation." Julian Huxley
The Phenomenon of Man
(Pierre Teilhard deChardin)
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"Expansion of consciousness is the hallmark of human evolution. As consciousness expands, taking more and more within its limits, humankind thus rising will increase in power, wisdom and love."
The Spiritual Life
(Annie Besant)
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"It is as one great human family that we must emerge into the future. I would emphasize this thought: IT IS AS ONE HUMANITY, CHASTENED, DISCIPLINED BUT ILLUMINED AND FUSED, THAT WE MUST EMERGE INTO THE FUTURE."
The Destiny of the Nations
(Alice A. Bailey)
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"The pursuit of perfection is the pursuit of sweetness and light….He who works for sweetness and light, works to make reason and the will of God prevail….Culture has a great passion, the passion for sweetness and light. It has one yet even greater! – the passion for making them prevail." Matthew Arnold (1822-1888), English poet, essayist, 'Culture and Anarchy'
The Great Thoughts
(George Seldes, compiler)
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"To share in a hallowed unity, even for a split second, is enough to enable us to glimpse the future promised to our species, and to find the road that will lead us to it."
Writings in Time of War
(Pierre Teilhard deChardin)
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"This is the deeper significance of the evolutionary process, that the human creature might re-establish communion with the Creator as a fully responsible agent infused with the power of God."
Summons to Life, Contemporary Christian Insights
(Martin Israel)
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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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"According to all great masters, humankind's greatest goal is to overcome the cosmic illusion that all forms are separate and distinct….to experience ourselves and the universe as the totality of God's Absolute Nature – the One, illumined throughout by cosmic light."
Mandala, Luminous Symbols for Healing
(Judith Cornell, Ph.D.)
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"Maturing vision depends increasingly upon two necessities: inward development of self, and communication between growing selves at the altitudes of their subtlest insights."
Creative Vision for Art and for Life
(Richard Guggenheimer)
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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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"God Himself enacts His plan in the history of mankind."
The Eye Aware: Zen Lessons for Christians
(Jeroen Witkam)
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"'And the Tree of Life shall blossom with a fruit never before known in the creation, and that fruit shall be the New Spirit of Man,' runs the Zapotec prophecy."
The Imagination of Pentecost: Rudolf Steiner & Contemporary Spirituality
(Richard Leviton)
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