LECTURES ON ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY
Manly P. Hall
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“Every human soul is innately divine.”
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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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“Man is eternally bound by his innate Reality to the Absolute, which is the fullness of Reality.”
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“Think of religion as the universal adoration of creative principles common to all humanity.”
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"Slayer and savior alike are marching on through the ages toward inevitable perfection."
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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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"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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"Each individual, by receding into his own divine nature, may discover within himself the divine nature of all creatures. He may even become every other creature, for that part of himself which is real is every other creature."
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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 aspiring soul seeks Self in the selflessness of the Great Law."
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“Perfect rhythms stream continually from the splendor of Abiding Destiny.”
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“The soul naturally desires the adornment of wholeness.”
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“Plato maintained that the One is All-Being.”
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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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"The world is not the product of casual effort or the work of irrational fortune, but the offspring of an intellectual nature and a divine wisdom."
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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 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 rational soul is necessarily unselfish because it conceives self to be distributed throughout the entire substance of Being."
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“The law of the soul is love.”
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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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“Beauty is in the human soul, lifting us upward to ever nobler vistas of endeavor.”
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“All is in All; All is All.” Rosicrucian saying
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“When we adore the God of harmony, we shall know the inner mystery of life.”
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“The establishment of the mind in wholes (unities) is essential to right thinking.”
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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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