LECTURES ON ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY
Manly P. Hall
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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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"Man is as surely clothed in the garments of virtue as he is in the garments of the physical; they are vehicles of his expression no less real than are the members formed of bone, flesh, or sinew."
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“It is predestined that the Golden Age shall come again; that men shall live together in love and understanding, and the earth shall become once more a garden of surpassing beauty as it was in the beginning.”
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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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“The great work of primitive Buddhism was to emphasize the fundamental unity of life through the doctrine of the One Universal Self.”
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“As each age comes into manifestation it brings with it a definite philosophic revelation designed to solve the problems peculiar to that age.”
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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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“Since the generated world is a collective whole, if we apply the ears of our intellect to the world we shall, perhaps, hear it thus addressing us: ‘There is no doubt but I was composed from all animals, entirely sufficient to myself, and destitute of nothing;…All things are contained in my ample bosom.” Plotinus, ‘On Providence’
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“He who becomes luminous shines not with a separate light but rather is merged with the one light whose radiance is diffused throughout all worlds.”
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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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“The all-sufficiency of Universal Good is all-sufficing.”
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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 world is not the product of casual effort or the work of irrational fortune, but the offspring of an intellectual nature and a divine wisdom."
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"Until we are everything that we in our ignorance believe surrounds us, there is no complete consciousness. We may study the star intellectually, but we have never attained consciousness until we are the star, the stone, the heavens, and the earth. When our consciousness is perfect we extend from the heights of height to the depths of depth; we permeate the whole nature of existence; we are in everything, we are through everything, we are the whole nature of everything."
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“All things are one in essence.”
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“The soul naturally desires the adornment of wholeness.”
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“To Be is to be immortal, for that which has been can never utterly cease.”
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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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“Humanity is the microcosm, or little universe – the miniature creation in whose composite nature are epitomized the varius orders of life.”
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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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"As all creatures are made in the image of their Universal Creator, it follows that each has a spiritual nature which is part of and harmonious with the spiritual nature of the universe, and also a material nature which is part of and harmonious with the cosmic body."
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"Perfect consciousness is perfect realization of the nature and relationship of parts to the fundamental unity in which they exist."
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“If learning does not teach us to love, we learn without understanding.”
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“All things are one in reality and in essence.”
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“Every human soul is innately divine.”
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