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THE PERENNIAL PHILOSOPHY
Aldous Huxley
From the Introduction: "The Perennial Philosophy is the metaphysic that recognizes a divine Reality substantial to the world of things and lives and minds; the psychology that finds in the soul something similar to, or even identical with, the divine Reality; the ethic that places man's final end in the knowledge of the immanent and transcendent Ground of all being - the thing is immemorial and universal."
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"In the Kingdom of Heaven all is in all, all is one, and all is ours." Meister Eckhart
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"The ground in which the multifarious and time-bound psyche is rooted is a simple, timeless awareness. By making ourselves pure in heart and poor in spirit we can discover and be identified with this awareness. In the spirit we not only have, but are, the unitive knowledge of the divine Ground." Aldous Huxley
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"Life is God living and working in the soul." William Law
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"The existence of sentient creatures has a goal and purpose which is ultimately the supreme good of every one of them."
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"Though One, Brahman is the cause of the many." Shankara
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"Only absorption in the loving and knowing of the divine Ground can rid it [the mind] of all fear."
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"The Godhead IS, and his 'isness' contains goodness, love, wisdom, in their essence and principle." Meister Eckhart
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"Immortality is participation in the eternal now of the divine Ground."
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"God in time is grounded in the eternal now of the modeless Godhead. It is in the Godhead that things, lives and minds have their being; it is through God that they have their becoming."
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"The Perennial Philosophy teaches that it is desirable and indeed necessary to know the spiritual Ground of things, not only within the soul, but also outside in the world and beyond world and soul, in its transcendent otherness."
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"The ground of the individual soul is akin to, or identical with, the divine Ground of all existence."
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"That Self who is free from impurities, from old age and death, from grief and thirst and hunger, whose desire is true and whose desires come true – that Self is to be sought after and enquired about, that Self is to be realized." The Chandogya Upanishad
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"Almighty Love….is stronger than death." John Smith, the Platonist
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"Pure love is God Himself." St. Catherine of Genoa
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"Take note of this fundamental truth. Everything that works in nature and creature….is the working of God in nature and creature." William Law
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"The divine Ground, according to the Perennial Philosophy, is the supreme good."
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"Every individual being, from the atom up to the most highly organized of living bodies and the most exalted of finite minds may be thought of as a point where a ray of the primordial Godhead meets one of the differentiated, creaturely emanations of that same Godhead's creative energy."
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"The discovery of Wisdom is the surpassing good. When this is found, all the people will sing." Philo
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"This identity out of the One into the One and with the One is the source and fountainhead and breaking forth of glowing Love." Meister Eckhart
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"Learn to look with an equal eye upon all beings, seeing the one Self in all." Srimad Bhagavatam
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"Divine Reality manifests itself as a Power that is loving, compassionate and wise."
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"The goal of creation is the return of all sentient beings out of separateness and that infatuating urge-to-separateness which results in suffering, through unitive knowledge, into the wholeness of eternal Reality."
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"For though she sink all sinking in the oneness of divinity, she never touches bottom. For it is of the very essence of the soul that she is powerless to plumb the depths of her creator. And here one cannot speak of the soul any more, for she has lost her nature yonder in the oneness of divine essence. There she is no more called soul, but is called immeasurable being." Meister Eckhart
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"The one happiness is the Life, the Light, the Spirit of God, manifested in nature and creature."
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"The Inner Light is beyond praise and blame; like space it knows no boundaries, yet it is even here, within us, ever retaining its serenity and fulness." Yung-chia Ta-shih
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