LECTURES ON ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY
Manly P. Hall
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“The all-sufficiency of Universal Good is all-sufficing.”
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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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“Every substance, object, element, and agent in the universe is capable of instructing us in those phases of divine order which are involved in its own constitution.”
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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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“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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“Let us look at the world through the eyes of those dreamers who have dared to believe that the good in human nature would ultimately blossom forth and regenerate the entire social system.”
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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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“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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“All things subsist in all things.”
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“Perfect rhythms stream continually from the splendor of Abiding Destiny.”
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“Roundness partakes of the nature of wholeness because the circle or sphere (like wholeness) is without beginning or end. To think in round terms may be interpreted to mean keeping the mentality upon the level of greatest inclusiveness, ever striving to attain fuller inclusiveness.”
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“The soul naturally desires the adornment of wholeness.”
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“All is in All; All is All.” Rosicrucian saying
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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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"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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“All things are one in reality and in essence.”
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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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"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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“Man is eternally bound by his innate Reality to the Absolute, which is the fullness of Reality.”
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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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"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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“Plato maintained that the One is All-Being.”
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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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“Beauty is in the human soul, lifting us upward to ever nobler vistas of endeavor.”
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“When we adore the God of harmony, we shall know the inner mystery of life.”
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