THE DIVINE PLAN
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"God is working his purpose out as year succeeds to year; God is working his purpose out and the time is drawing near; nearer and nearer draws the time, the time that shall surely be, when the earth shall be filled with the glory of God as the waters cover the sea." Arthur Campbell Ainger (1841-1919), English teacher and poet
Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, 4th edition
(Angela Partington, editor)
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"Law, Love, Union or Synthesis – all these great energies have seeped into the human consciousness and now provide the platform upon which the new civilisation can be founded, the new approach to God be taken, and new human relations be implemented."
The Rays and The Initiations
(Alice A. Bailey)
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"God's plan is to give us peace: peace with God, peace in our hearts, and peace with others."
The Journey
(Billy Graham)
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"The true citizen of the New Age will let compassion control even the details of daily life. He will shrink from harming anything that breathes because he will accept the Law of Kinship of all that lives."
Basic Theosophy
(Geoffrey Hodson)
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"The spiritual origin of man and where we come from – THAT is the next great area of exploration." Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Experiencing the Soul
(Eliot Jay Rosen, editor)
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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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"Mankind has descended to the profoundest depths of personal necessity, of physical personality. But just such an egotistic, utilitarian principle had to come sometime, because through it, the ascending course of all human evolution will be facilitated."
The Essential Steiner
(Rudolf Steiner, edited by Robert A. McDermott)
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"Our attunement with the essential wholeness of life is steadily growing."
Soul Centered Astrology, A Key to Your Expanding Self
(Alan Oken)
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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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"A new natural philosophy of love seems to be on the rise everywhere. It belongs perhaps to a 'geo-theology' of love as the creative force in evolution, the lure of becoming, which is finding renewed expression in the rising archetype of the Beloved of the soul. The world may be urging us to coalesce into a new and higher unity for which we feel unprepared, and the only force emotionally powerful enough to call us to educate ourselves for sacred stewardship is communion and partnership with the Beloved."
The Search for the Beloved
(Jean Houston)
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"In Him, who is the great consciousness, matter acquires consciousness of the distance that separates it from the Supreme Good, and strives to approach the latter. Through man the darkness aspires toward the light, the multiple toward the single."
The Great Secret
(Maurice Maeterlinck)
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"Everything yields up the portion of positive energy contained within its nature so as to contribute to the richness of the divine milieu."
The Divine Milieu
(Pierre Teilhard deChardin)
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"The evolution, which upon this earth of ours, began with minerals and ends in man, is assuredly a spiritual evolution."
The Great Secret
(Maurice Maeterlinck)
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"The living water never ceased to flow. No doubt many of those through whom it passed are unknown to us. But enough are known, through their lives and their writing, to enable us to establish the continuance and ever richer, deeper growth of the life-force at work within humanity: the development of the new 'seed' within the world, destined to serve the interests of the Divine Plan."
The Mystic Way - A Psychological Study in Christian Origins
(Evelyn Underhill)
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"Now, in an extraordinary moment of global transformation, we will do more than just love: We will join our love and harness our love. We will pool our resources of forgiveness and imagination and grace, and in time we will collectively experience what physicists call 'phase lock', a phenomenon in which individual oscillating rhythms – here, the beats of many, many hearts around the world – fall into a deep pattern of energetic resonance. We will form a community of consciousness – a collective love – that is humanity's next step on our evolutionary journey."
Everyday Grace, Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness, and Making Miracles
(Marianne Williamson)
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"There is a plan for each of us, and each of us is precious. As we open our hearts more and more, we're moved in the directions in which we're supposed to go."
A Return to Love, Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles
(Marianne Williamson)
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"Carl Rogers, the late humanistic psychologist, believed that human beings, like all other organisms, have a natural tendency to fulfill their inherent possibilities."
Marilyn Ferguson's Book of PragMagic
(Marilyn Ferguson)
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"Inner forces guide the evolution of humanity."
Reincarnation and Immortality
(Rudolf Steiner)
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"The future belongs to those who, across all nationalist and bourgeois conventions, boldly give the example of a greater faith in the forces of good and intelligence hidden in Man and a greater love for everything that rises or tries to rise."
Letters to Two Friends: 1926-1952
(Pierre Teilhard deChardin)
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"Ever onward, ever upward, forever and ever more! Eternal progression is the anthem of evolution."
Encyclopedia of Ancient and Forbidden Knowledge
(Zolar)
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"What is the universe for, and for what final purpose is mankind?...It is all for the experience and emancipation of the soul, for the purpose of raising the entire mass of manifested matter up to the stature, nature, and dignity of conscious god-hood."
The Ocean of Theosophy
(William Q. Judge)
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"There is dawning on the human consciousness a growing realisation of innate divinity and that humanity is in very truth made in the image of God….The idea of purpose and of plan is being grasped, and the entire attitude towards life is rapidly changing. Surely it should now be possible to gain such a synthetic picture of the progress of the soul from ignorance to wisdom, from material desire to spiritual achievement that the end may be visioned from the beginning and intelligent cooperation with soul purpose take the place of blind endeavor."
The Labours of Hercules
(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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"We shall be transformed into the divine likeness because we shall know the Lord just as He is, for this cognitive immersion in pure Beauty enthralls and transfigures just as fire ignites and makes to glow any combustible object cast into it."
Fire Within: St. Teresa of Avila, St. John of the Cross, and the Gospel - on Prayer'
(Thomas Dubay, S.M.)
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"Symbols, images, and archetypes are indeed, and function as, a bridge or connection between the known and the unknown, the conscious and the Deep Mind, actuality and potentiality. They are elements in a progressive developmental path or curriculum by which the many can become one, by which the profane can be linked with the sacred, and by which the supreme synthesis of finding Union with God can be realized – the true purpose and destiny of all human beings on earth."
Divine Light and Fire, Experiencing Esoteric Christianity
(Peter Roche deCoppens)
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