LECTURES ON ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY
Manly P. Hall
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"The gospel of tomorrow will be a gospel of one being."
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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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“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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“The soul naturally desires the adornment of 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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"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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"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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"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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“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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"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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"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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“Humanity’s sphere of influence is as far-reaching as creation, and what we first agitate diverges to the shores of eternity like the ripples from a stone thrown upon the surface of some placid lake.”
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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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"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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“Beauty is in the human soul, lifting us upward to ever nobler vistas of endeavor.”
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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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“The One Supreme Power manifesting throughout the cosmic organism should be considered as manifesting through all created things.”
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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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"Slayer and savior alike are marching on through the ages toward inevitable perfection."
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“If learning does not teach us to love, we learn without understanding.”
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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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“Man is eternally bound by his innate Reality to the Absolute, which is the fullness of Reality.”
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“The law of the soul is love.”
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“All is in All; All is All.” Rosicrucian saying
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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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