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GOD/GODDESS
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"The splendour of God…is that without let to his absolute holiness and self-sufficiency, he has made himself one in love and one in life with every finite and errant member of his universe – here and now."
Behold the Spirit, A Study in the Necessity of Mystical Religion
(Alan Watts)
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"Existence is a fundamental 'energy' of being, whereby it keeps 'be-ing.'"
Introductory Metaphysics
(Avery R. Dulles, James M. Demske, Robert J. O'Connell)
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"The divine being is all being simultaneously." Thomas Aquinas
The Great Ideas, A Syntopicon, vol. 1
(Mortimer J. Adler, editor)
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"God is defined as that which is."
Summons to Life, Contemporary Christian Insights
(Martin Israel)
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"God is Love – I dare say." Samuel Butler (1835-1902), 'God Is Love',
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 16th edition
(John Bartlett)
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"God is in all things, as the ancients have observed it with a worthy correctness."
Isis Unveiled
(Helena P. Blavatsky)
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"Briefly formulated, the universal doctrine teaches that all the visible structures of the world – all things and beings – are the effects of a ubiquitous power out of which they rise, which supports and fills them during the period of their manifestation, and back into which they must ultimately dissolve. This is the power known to science as energy, to the Melanesians as 'mana', to the Sioux Indians as 'wakonda', the Hindus as 'shakti', and the Christians as the power of God. Its manifestation in the psyche is termed, by the psychoanalysts, 'libido.' And its manifestation in the cosmos is the structure and flux of the universe itself."
Hero With A Thousand Faces
(Joseph Campbell)
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"The Absolute Fact is that God/Life is ALL in ALL."
The Child Within Us Lives!, A Synthesis of Science, Religion and Metaphysics
(William Samuel)
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"God is the One and Indivisible."
Robert Fludd, Western Esoteric Masters Series
(William Huffman, editor)
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"Every atom of every world is a centre through which He is conscious, so that not only is it true that God is omnipresent, but also that whatever is is God."
The Hidden Side of Things
(C. W. Leadbeater)
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"The world of the senses, the kingdoms of nature, testify to the all-pervasive wisdom of God."
Covenant of the Heart, Meditations of a Christian Hermeticist on the Mysteries of Tradition
(Valentin Tomberg)
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"Truly the living God is crowned in every atom."
Understanding Yourself: A Spiritual Approach to Self-Discovery and Soul-Awareness
(Mark L. and Elizabeth Clare Prophet)
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“Xenophanes declared that God ‘is all things’.”
The Secret Teachings of All Ages
(Manly P. Hall)
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"Mechtild of Magdeburg said: 'God is not only fatherly. God is also mother who lifts her loved child from the ground to her knee.'"
One River, Many Wells: Wisdom Springing from World Faiths
(Matthew Fox)
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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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“The Gospel of John says that in the beginning was the Word, and that the Word was God, and that all things were made by the Word.”
Meditations on the Apocalypse, A Psycho-Spiritual Perspective on the Book of Revelation
(F. Aster Barnwell)
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"God's nature is everywhere." St. Gregory Palamas, 'Topics of Natural and Theological Science'
The Philokalia, volume 4
(various authors, compiled by St. Nikodimos and St. Makarios)
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"Each single act, each single moment, [is] joined directly to God." Friedrich vonHugel
Letters from Saints to Sinners
(John Cumming, editor)
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"God is all. He is not far away in the heaven; He is here. This grass under your feet is He; this bountiful harvest, that blue sky, those roses...you yourself are all one with Him." C. Y. E., anonymous author
Cosmic Consciousness
(Richard M Bucke)
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"When you get right down to it, God is all." Lewis B. Smedes, Professor Emeritus of Theology and Ethics, Fullerton Theological Seminary
Genesis: A Living Conversation
(Bill Moyers)
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"We use the word 'God' to signify the one expression of the One Life which animates every form."
Esoteric Psychology II
(Alice A. Bailey)
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"This being (God) is life itself, light, wisdom, goodness, eternal blessedness and blessed eternity; and it is everywhere and always." St. Anselm of Canterbury (b. 1033), Archbishop and philosopher
The Soul Afire, Revelations of the Mystics
(H. A. Reinhold, editor)
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"In fact, nature is nothing more than an epiphany of the divine world."
New World Dictionary-Concordance to the New American Bible
(various)
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"All the manifestations we see, and everything that exists in both this material world and in the spiritual world, are resting on the energy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The creation takes place by the diffusion of His different energies, and as stated in Bhagavad-gita, He is everywhere present."
Bhagavad-Gita As It Is
(A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada)
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"God sees Himself in Himself alone and draws His power from Himself alone, and He sees Himself in all His creatures, even in those that have no sensation, and in them He feels Himself through the power with which He gives them their being, and causes them to be of use and to bear fruit." St. Maria Maddelena de'Pazzi (1566-1607), teacher, political activist
The Soul Afire, Revelations of the Mystics
(H. A. Reinhold, editor)
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