LECTURES ON ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY
Manly P. Hall
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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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"Perfect consciousness is perfect realization of the nature and relationship of parts to the fundamental unity in which they exist."
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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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“Humanity possesses the power to interpret the whole and can actually come to realize its kinship with all.”
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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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"To know the nature of all things is to realize that all things are good."
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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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“Perfect rhythms stream continually from the splendor of Abiding Destiny.”
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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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“The establishment of the mind in wholes (unities) is essential to right thinking.”
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“All things subsist in all things.”
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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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"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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“All are embraced within the span of the eternal philosophic NOW.”
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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 things are one in essence.”
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“The One and Undivided is the very foundation of manifested existence.”
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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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"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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"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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“The all-sufficiency of Universal Good is all-sufficing.”
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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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“To Be is to be immortal, for that which has been can never utterly cease.”
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“Think of religion as the universal adoration of creative principles common to all humanity.”
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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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