LECTURES ON ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY
Manly P. Hall
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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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"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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“The sure and eternal path winds through the illusion and leads ultimately to the attainment of perfect good.”
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"There is no way in which to more rapidly release our own internal potentials than through the discovery of the wonders of the Universal Plan and the parts that each of us must play in the perfection of our world."
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"The Beautiful is an eternal flow; it is the One in motion."
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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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“The establishment of the mind in wholes (unities) is essential to right thinking.”
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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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"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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“All things are one in essence.”
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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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"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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“All are embraced within the span of the eternal philosophic NOW.”
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"Slayer and savior alike are marching on through the ages toward inevitable perfection."
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“For this age we must have a doctrine of synthesis, a code actuated and dominated by the spirit of unification.”
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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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“To Be is to be immortal, for that which has been can never utterly cease.”
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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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“Humanity possesses the power to interpret the whole and can actually come to realize its kinship with all.”
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"To know the nature of all things is to realize that all things are good."
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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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"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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“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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“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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“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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