LECTURES ON ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY
Manly P. Hall
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“The sure and eternal path winds through the illusion and leads ultimately to the attainment of perfect good.”
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"Each individual, by receding into his own divine nature, may discover within himself the divine nature of all creatures. He may even become every other creature, for that part of himself which is real is every other creature."
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“All things are one in reality and in essence.”
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"The glorious Universal Self is the One who is in all, the All which is in each."
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“A growing tree increases from a single shoot to a miracle of branches and foliage, yet nowhere is there any inconsistency or contradiction in the process…From the first quickening of its seed the tree moves inevitably toward a single end. This perfect cooperation of parts demonstrates the exactness of the power that willed it into being.”
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“Humanity’s sphere of influence is as far-reaching as creation, and what we first agitate diverges to the shores of eternity like the ripples from a stone thrown upon the surface of some placid lake.”
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“The law of the soul is love.”
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“Man is eternally bound by his innate Reality to the Absolute, which is the fullness of Reality.”
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"The rational soul is necessarily unselfish because it conceives self to be distributed throughout the entire substance of Being."
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“The One Supreme Power manifesting throughout the cosmic organism should be considered as manifesting through all created things.”
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"We are destined by Eternal Providence to become the fullness of ourselves….we shall find perfection in the consummation of the destiny for which we were first conceived."
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“Good continually inclines toward unity or wholeness.”
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"Unborn and undying, the Self is neither old nor young. Its condition never changes; for though all things pass away, it endures. It is wholeness."
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“In the midst of this ever-changing scene is an intangible but all-pervading and inclusive permanence – the divine Reality, the Self, the perfect Wholeness.”
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“All are embraced within the span of the eternal philosophic NOW.”
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“Think of religion as the universal adoration of creative principles common to all humanity.”
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“Good, possessing the virtue of unity, must ever increase until it includes everything within its own nature.”
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“Beauty is in the human soul, lifting us upward to ever nobler vistas of endeavor.”
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“To Be is to be immortal, for that which has been can never utterly cease.”
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"Wholeness is an archetypal quality – an attribute of Deity. Regardless of the nature of its expression, every activity, quality, or condition is essentially a wholeness. This wholeness is made manifest by a division within itself whereby its nature becomes a mass of innumerable fragments, each of the fractions partaking of the quality resident in the original wholeness, and manifesting it through the wholeness of its own fractional part."
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“The One and Undivided is the very foundation of manifested existence.”
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“That sages, widely separated geographically and with diverse environments and temperaments, should arrive at the same general conclusions attests the accuracy of their findings.”
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"The whole partakes of the attributes of the parts in fullness and perfect harmony. Hence the whole is the master of its parts, which are powerless to force their fragmentary agencies upon the structure of wholeness itself."
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"Mankind may be considered as a vast organism with one Spirit or Self manifesting through an infinite number of organisms."
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"The new message is the gospel of identity. It is not an effort to unite lives in a common interest, but a recognition of the fact that all forms are but manifestations of one indivisible agent….Indissoluble unity is fundamental throughout the universe."
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