"The substance of the ungenerated Father of all is incorruption and self-existent light, simple and homogeneous." Ptolemaeus' Letter to Flora, 2nd century Gnostic text
The Other Bible - Willis Barnstone, editor
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"By natural reason man can know God with certanity, on the basis of his works."
Catechism of the Catholic Church
(Various)
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"It is our rule to begin by cleansing our souls from bad opinions by means of right reason." Clement of Alexandria, 'On Spiritual Perfection'
Alexandrian Christianity
(John E. L. Oulton, editor)
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“Through reason man is enabled to elevate himself above the illusionary world of the senses and find eternal repose in perfect union with the Divine Essence.”
The Secret Teachings of All Ages
(Manly P. Hall)
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"We all have a faculty or clarity called 'reason' that can correct our misperceptions and reactions. According to Eternal Laws, the very function of right reason is to correct error."
A Course in Miracles - A Gift For All Mankind
(Tara Singh)
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"From very many objects in the world enlightened reason may discover the infinity of God the Creator."
A Compendium of the Theological Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg
(Samuel M. Warren, compiler)
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"The part of mind where reason lies was dedicated, by your will in union with your Father's, to the undoing of insanity. Here was the Holy Spirit's purpose accepted and accomplished, both at once. Reason is alien to insanity….reason can serve to open doors you closed against it."
A Course in Miracles
(Helen Schucman and William Thetford)
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"Reason quickens dormant springs, frees what is hidden….It presses toward the One that is all." Karl Jaspers (b. 1883), German philosopher
A Treasury of Philosophy, Vol. 1
(Dagobert D. Runes, editor)
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"Our reason is grounded in God, who is substantial nature."
Revelations of Divine Love
(Juliana of Norwich)
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"Epictetus taught that reason governed the world and was identical with God." Dagobert Runes
A Treasury of Philosophy, Vol. 1
(Dagobert D. Runes, editor)
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"Through his capacity for thinking, intelligence and logic, man can reason, deduce, enlarge or develop his consciousness."
Healing Through Colour
(Theo Gimbel)
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"Every soul has some portion of 'nous', reason, a person cannot be a person without it."
Isis Unveiled
(Helena P. Blavatsky)
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"Reason understands the laws of things – that is, spirit in nature. It can also raise itself above nature and, in the spirit, grasp from one side the divine essence underlying all nature."
Mystics after Modernism
(Rudolf Steiner)
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“Men and women possess the power of reason, which is the noblest element in the soul.” Editors
Hildegard of Bingen, Mystical Writings
(Fiona Bowie and Oliver Davies, editors)
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“As St. Paul said and as true reason has said, the ordered arrangement of the whole visible realm makes known the invisible things of God.”
Pseudo-Dionysius, The Complete Works
(John Farina, Editor-in-Chief)
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"Intuition is the faculty of knowledge which results from instinct that is illumined by reason."
Covenant of the Heart, Meditations of a Christian Hermeticist on the Mysteries of Tradition
(Valentin Tomberg)
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"Reason governs the world, and has consequently governed its history." Georg W. F. Hegel (1770-1831), German philosopher
A Treasury of Philosophy, Vol. 1
(Dagobert D. Runes, editor)
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"Intellect (nous): the highest faculty in man, through which – provided he is purified – he knows God or the inner essences or principles of created things by means of direct apprehension or spiritual perception….it understands divine truth by means of immediate experience, intuition, or simple cognition. The intellect dwells in the depths of the soul; it constitutes the innermost aspect of the heart."
The Philokalia, volume 2
(various authors, compiled by St. Nikodimos of the Holy Mountain)
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"We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart." Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), French mathematician and theologian
The Lion Christian Quotation Collection
(Hannah Ward & Jennifer Wild, compilers)
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"If we discover a complete unified theory of the universe, it should in time be understandable in broad principle by everyone, not just a few scientists. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people, be able to take part in the discussion of the question of why it is that we and the universe exist. If we find the answer to that, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason – for then we should know the mind of God." Stephen Hawking (b. 1942)
God, A Companion for Seekers
(David Schiller)
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"The slightest thing that happens takes place in accordance with nature and its reason." Chrysippus (ca. 280-207 bce), Stoic philosopher
A Treasury of Philosophy, Vol. 1
(Dagobert D. Runes, editor)
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"Reason is nothing other than the light of divine brightness reflected in the soul." Thomas Aquinas, 'Commentary on the Psalms', 36, p. 279
Sheer Joy, Conversations with Thomas Aquinas on Creation Spirituality
(Matthew Fox)
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“The Nature of the Universe ought to be apprehended by the Reason, which is akin to it.” Posidonius, ‘apud Sextus Empiricus, adv. Math’. vii. 93
The New Testament Background: Selected Documents
(C. K. Barrett, editor)
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"In the 'Timaeus' Plato discovered evidence of an ordering Mind in all things, and Aristotle emphasized the fact that all formed a rational whole interpenetrated by reason and unveiling its secrets to reason."
The Mystery Religions and Christianity
(Samuel Angus)
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"Reason has to do with finding the ground of being and the fundamental structuring of order of the universe."
The Power of Myth
(Joseph Campbell)
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"The imagination is a power that is, as it were, intellectual. Appetite and impulse are obedient to imagination and to reason." Plotinus, 'The Soul'
The Essential Plotinus
(Translated by Elmer O'Brien, S.J.)
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