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WORLD SOUL
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"Innate in all evolving life, is the eternal attraction toward attainment of archetypal perfection. This will-to-perfection is imperative in evolution, having been ceaselessly active throughout the universe from the beginning. It provides the orientation that guides Nature in the slow evolution of all forms and species toward their fulfillment." James S. Perkins, 'The Rhythmic Return to Equilibrium'
Karma, The Universal Law of Harmony
(Virginia Hanson and Rosemarie Stewart, editors)
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"All souls are identical with the Oversoul."
The Light of the Soul
(Alice A. Bailey)
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"It is as if the universe is one single organism, motivated by a single power, developing in many ways to gradually become aware of itself through the awareness of the creatures and forces it produces."
A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe: The Mathematical Archetypes of Nature, Art & Science
(Michael S. Schneider)
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"One who sees the Supersoul in every living being and equal everywhere does not degrade himself by his mind. Thus he approaches the transcendental destination." Bhagavad Gita, ch. 13, v. 29
Bhagavad-Gita As It Is
(A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada)
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"Who else calls us back from the death of every error except that Life which cannot die, that wisdom which needs no light itself but enlightens every mind that needs it, by which the whole world is ruled, down even to the quivering leaves on the trees."
Confessions
(St. Augustine)
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“The spirit of life is not only indwelling in all living things, but immanent in everything that exists, as the world-soul.”
Collected Works
(Carl Jung)
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"This World Soul belongs to the entire world." 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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"It will not be long before no structure of truth or goodness can be built up without a central position being reserved for that soul [the soul of the world], for its influence and its universal mediation."
The Soul of the World
(Pierre Teilhard deChardin)
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"The esoteric traditions of all cultures speak of the 'withinness' of things that seeks to externalize and to fulfill itself. If we think of our planet as an organic, growing system – a living being – then it, too, has an image of fulfillment buried within its seed center, an image that is using all of nature as its means of emergence."
The Findhorn Garden: Pioneering a New Vision of Man and Nature in Cooperation
(The Findhorn Community)
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"The Light Supernal, that central Life or Energy, holds hid within Itself the purpose and plan towards which all Being tends."
A Treatise on White Magic
(Alice A. Bailey)
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"The spirit of Nature is a unity, creating and forming everything." Johannes Tritheim, Abbot of Spanheim and Kabalist
The Secret Doctrine
(Helena P. Blavatsky)
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"The original virtue and vigour of all things depend upon the soul of the world. All Platonists, Pythagoreans, Orpheus, Trismegistus, Aristotle, Theophrastus, Avicenna, Algazel, and all Peripatetics confess and confirm this."
The History of Magic and the Occult
(Kurt Seligmann)
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"The one Master is found within; it is the soul….This one Master is a corporate part of the Whole, of the All-Soul."
The Light of the Soul
(Alice A. Bailey)
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"In physics, in biology, in aesthetics, this same Unitary Principle obtains; it is as though the tensions and pressures of conflicting forms in unstable irresolution ultimately find, by their own inner urgencies, and nature's purposive design, a mergent stability, a higher function in the mounting architecture….there seems to be a goal that is as inherently magnetic to all protoplasm and organism as to man himself."
Creative Vision for Art and for Life
(Richard Guggenheimer)
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"Contemplation of a single flower may lead the seeker through. A plant displaying Nature's symmetry, a tree, a mountain range, a single peak, flowing river, a thundering cascade – each and all of these will serve the contemplative soul as entrance to the realm of the Real wherein Nature's Self abides." Geoffrey Hodson, 'The Greater Gods'
Angels and Mortals, Their Co-Creative Power
(Maria Parisen, compiler)
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"Deep, deep in the human mind there is that burning blazing light of the world consciousness."
The Origins of Pagan and Christian Beliefs
(Edward Carpenter)
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"The globe is a living being with incarnate power, life and consciousness. The Earth breathes. Its heart beats. It is the body of the Spirit of the Earth." Geoffrey Hodson, 'The Greater Gods'
Angels and Mortals, Their Co-Creative Power
(Maria Parisen, compiler)
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"We are a transitional species evolving toward that higher, divine human which has been embodied by the great avatars of the human race and which is being activated in millions of us now, as the whole planetary body enters its 'crisis of birth', its time of trial, when the whole must coordinate and integrate itself as one living system." Barbara Marx Hubbard, 'Discovery of a New Ordering of the Future'
New Thoughts for a New Millennium
(Michael A. Maday, editor)
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"This vast congeries of volitions, interests, and activities, constitutes the instruments and means of the world-spirit for attaining its object; bringing it to consciousness, and realizing it. And this aim is none other than finding itself – coming to itself – and contemplating itself in concrete actuality." Georg W. F. Hegel (1770-1831), German philosopher
A Treasury of Philosophy, Vol. 1
(Dagobert D. Runes, editor)
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"The Will of God and His laws can be discovered in the characters of the great Book of Nature."
Robert Fludd, Western Esoteric Masters Series
(William Huffman, editor)
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"The Eternal Mind diffused through all the parts of nature actuates the whole stupendous frame and mingles with the vast body of the universe." Virgil
The Secret Doctrine
(Helena P. Blavatsky)
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"We have evidence everywhere of something working steadfastly within it (the world) toward a predetermined goal of goodness and perfection. Why otherwise does the usual season of rainfall come in time to bring on the farmer's crops?....The most important causes are in fact not the material, but the formal and final causes, the influence on substances of ends ahead, of purposes they are meant to achieve, of potentialities they are trying to make actual. As a builder frames in his mind a picture of a house, and holds to it as the reason for each subsequent step he takes, so nature pursues a course set by that which is yet to be."
On Man In The Universe
(Aristotle, edited w/ intro by Louise Ropes Loomis)
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“We give to God, or the power of God which sustains all things, the name of ‘Anima media natura’, or ‘Soul of the World’.” ‘De arte chymica’
Collected Works
(Carl Jung)
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"The earth is mother of all." Ugandan proverb
The Way of The Earth, Encounters with Nature in Ancient and Contemporary Thought
(T. C. McLuhan)
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"Alchemists believed that the components of the world are in a process of maturation and growth as they journey toward perfection….matter was a living thing, and alchemists acted as midwives to a Nature striving for perfection."
From Certainty to Uncertainty, the Story of Science and Ideas in the Twentieth Century
(F. David Peat)
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