LECTURES ON ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY
Manly P. Hall
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“The One and Undivided is the very foundation of manifested existence.”
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“To Be is to be immortal, for that which has been can never utterly cease.”
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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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"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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"The sum of all individual minds is the one Universal Mind, so that in the last analysis, gods, men, and worlds are each fragments of the whole."
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"The gospel of tomorrow will be a gospel of one being."
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“All things subsist in all things.”
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“God is all there is….God is the heavens and the earth, and all the creatures that inhabit them.” Anonymous East Indian sage
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“All things are one in reality and in essence.”
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"If a spiritual principle is omnipresent at all times, then no object can ever be moved so that it either approaches closer to or retires farther from spirit; for spirit has its center everywhere and its circumference nowhere."
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"Glory to the unchangeable, holy, eternal, supreme Vishnu, of one universal nature….Glory to the supreme Vishnu, the cause of the creation, existence, and the end of this world; who is the root of the world and who consists of the world." The Vishnu Purana
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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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“All are embraced within the span of the eternal philosophic NOW.”
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"The quest of the truly beautiful is identical with the quest of Self, for Self in its perfect and universalized sense – the all-pervading Consciousness – is the perfect source of all beauty."
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"To know the nature of all things is to realize that all things are good."
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“Having ultimately attained through right thinking, right feeling, and right living to the condition of the beautiful within ourselves, with enraptured vision we can respond in perfect measure to the eternal beauty which flows from the inexhaustible fountain of the one Good.”
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"In addition to the properties of length, breadth, and thickness, every object has also a quality extension toward the nature of perfect Good."
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“Brotherhood extends to all corners of the earth, including all races and species without distinction.”
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“All things are one in essence.”
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“Humanity possesses the power to interpret the whole and can actually come to realize its kinship with all.”
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"Intelligence exists in every department of creation. The entire universe is controlled by definite laws that evidence the omniscience of the Eternal Thinker."
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"The Beautiful is an eternal flow; it is the One in motion."
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"Man, gazing into the eyes of man, beholds therein his Maker. His Creator sings to him with the voice of the wilderness, and descends upon him from the stars that spangle the heavens by night."
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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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“Think of religion as the universal adoration of creative principles common to all humanity.”
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