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CIRCLE
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"The Universe is boundless and unlimited, a circle whose circumference is everywhere."
Encyclopedia of Ancient and Forbidden Knowledge
(Zolar)
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"The sun makes of our planet an alchemical retort in which the ocean waters are lifted to heaven and then, their impurities distilled away, are returned to the earth in drops of rain. This continuous circular process epitomizes the natural interrelationship between heaven and earth – between the archetypal figures of the collective unconscious and man's ego reality." Sallie Nichols, Jungian author
Angels and Mortals, Their Co-Creative Power
(Maria Parisen, compiler)
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"Man is an imperishable circle in the sphere of Divinity."
Reincarnation: Fact or Fallacy?
(Geoffrey Hodson)
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"The mandala emphasizes the process of spiritual growth, of the mind's evolution echoing the evolution of the universe."
Breaking the Mind Barrier
(Todd Siler)
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"The universe is a mandalic mirror – a sacred art and science of divine creative processes."
Mandala, Luminous Symbols for Healing
(Judith Cornell, Ph.D.)
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"The soul has movement – First it moves in a circle, that is, it turns within itself and away from what is outside and there is an inner concentration of its intellectual powers. A sort of fixed revolution causes it to return from the multiplicity of externals, to gather in upon itself and then, in this undispersed condition, to join those who are themselves in a powerful union. From there the revolution brings the soul to the Beautiful and the Good, which is beyond all things, is one and the same, and has neither beginning nor end."
Pseudo-Dionysius, The Complete Works
(John Farina, Editor-in-Chief)
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"In Aristotle's cosmology, the circular motions of the celestial spheres, and through them all other cycles of natural change, are sustained eternally by the prime mover, which moves all things by the attraction of its perfect being."
The Great Ideas, A Syntopicon, vol. 1
(Mortimer J. Adler, editor)
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"In a world that is split, divided by the 'Civil War of Man', healing is needed to make whole. Mandala is a whole-ing technique; it is the alchemy of opposites reuniting, a blueprint that can be placed upon anything, or any man or being."
Mandala
(Jose and Miriam Arguelles)
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"Although 'wholeness' seems at first sight to be nothing but an abstract idea, it is nevertheless empirical in so far as it is anticipated by the psyche in the form of spontaneous or autonomous symbols. These are the quaternity or mandala symbols, which occur not only in the dreams of modern people who have never heard of them, but are widely disseminated in the historical records of many peoples and many epochs. Their significance as symbols of unity and totality is amply confirmed by history as well as by empirical psychology. What at first looks like an abstract idea stands in reality for something that exists and can be experienced, that demonstrates its a priori presence spontaneously."
Collected Works
(Carl Jung)
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"One by one you take your place in the mandala of saints and bodhisattvas."
Quietly Comes the Buddha: Awakening Your Inner Buddha Nature
(Elizabeth Clare Prophet)
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"Our deepest awareness, the power that motivates all awareness, which we can call the 'Power to Be Conscious,' of which we are not ordinarily cognizant, recognizes its own transcendental nature in the geometry of the circle. For this reason the circle has been a universal symbol of an ideal perfection and divine state that always exists around and within us whether we acknowledge it or not."
A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe: The Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art & Science
(Michael S. Schneider)
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"They [mandalas] are among the oldest religious symbols of humanity and may even have existed in paleolithic times (cf. the Rhodesian rock paintings). Moreover they are distributed all over the world."
Collected Works
(Carl Jung)
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"I have found that the eye which sees the whole circle expresses our soul simply and perfectly." Nikos Kazantzakis
The Way of The Earth, Encounters with Nature in Ancient and Contemporary Thought
(T. C. McLuhan)
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"The Mandala is a figure or design found in the art of virtually all peoples. It is based on a perfectly balanced circle, in which the mid-point is given a particularly great importance."
Jung's Psychology and Its Social Meaning
(Ira Progoff, Ph.D.)
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"Represent Unity by a circle; at the Present Moment, outside Time, a scission occurs and forms two streams: one goes to the left, away from the other, which goes to the right; each runs on a half of the circle, the Chinese Yin and Yang. On the opposite side, the antagonists rediscover each other and unite. The circle, or cycle, has never ceased to be, the scission has broken nothing…..This absurdity is the Truth." R. A. Schwaller deLubicz, 'Nature Word', Lindisfarne
Nature Word
(R. A. Schwaller deLubicz)
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"We know from experience that the protective circle, the mandala, is the traditional antidote for chaotic states of mind."
Collected Works
(Carl Jung)
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"The animate world is the larger circle, man is the smaller circle. He is the microcosm. Consequently, everything without is within, everything above is below. Between all things in the larger and smaller circles reigns 'correspondence'."
Collected Works
(Carl Jung)
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"The circular sea with no outlet, which perpetually replenishes itself by means of a spring bubbling up in its centre, is to be found in [the writings of] Nicholas of Cusa as an allegory of God."
Collected Works
(Carl Jung)
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"The circle has been variously interpreted as a state of oneness, unity, heaven, the sun, Yang, the Self, ultimate wholeness, enlightenment."
Seeing With the Mind's Eye
(Mike Samuels, M.D. and Nancy Samuels)
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"Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles, and everything tries to be round." Black Elk (1863-1950), Native American elder
A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe: The Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art & Science
(Michael S. Schneider)
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"In the cyclic system of the ancients, birth and death merged in a circular continuum."
The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets
(Barbara G. Walker)
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"There are times when doubts over me steal, but I know Thou are there and awake. Thou art – and art – and I feel no surging of aeons can shake Thee – Life is a ring, I have found – I am child, boy, man, more – I learn the circle is rich, the full round complete in its perfect return." Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926), German poet
The Choice Is Always Ours
(Dorothy B. Phillips, Chief Editor)
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"The point signifies unity, the Origin and the Centre. It also represents the principles of manifestation and emanation, and hence in some mandalas the centre is not actually shown but must be imagined….There are two kinds of point to be considered: that which has no magnitude and is symbolic of creative virtue, and that which – as suggested by Raymond Lull in his 'Nova Geometria' – has the smallest conceivable or practicable magnitude and is a symbol of the principle of manifestation."
A Dictionary of Symbols
(J. E. Cirlot)
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"The circle has ever been considered symbolical of the Deity; for as a circle appears to have neither beginning nor end, it may be justly considered a type [archetype] of God, without either beginning of days or ending of years."
A Dictionary of Freemasonry
(Robert Macoy)
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"Beyond the body, beyond the sun and stars, past everything you see and yet somehow familiar, is an arc of golden light that stretches as you look into a great and shining circle. And all the circle fills with light before your eyes. The edges of the circle disappear, and what is in it is no longer contained at all. The light expands and covers everything, extending to infinity forever shining and with no break or limit anywhere. Within it everything is joined in perfect continuity. Nor is it possible to imagine that anything could be outside, for there is nowhere that this light is not. This is the vision of the Son of God, whom you know well….Here is the memory of what you are; a part of this, with all of it within, and joined to all as surely as all is joined to you."
A Course in Miracles
(Helen Schucman and William Thetford)
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