LECTURES ON ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY
Manly P. Hall
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"The aspiring soul seeks Self in the selflessness of the Great Law."
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“When we adore the God of harmony, we shall know the inner mystery 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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“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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"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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"All principles and their progeny are finally centered and rooted by their summits in the first great all-comprehending one. Thus all beings proceed from, and are comprehended in the first being; all intellects emanate from one first intellect; all souls from one first soul; all natures blossom from one first nature;…all these great monads are comprehended in the first one, from which both they and all their depending series are unfolded into light. Hence, this first one is truly the unity of unities, the monad of monads, the principle of principles, the God of Gods, one and all things, and yet one prior to all."
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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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“All things are one in reality and in essence.”
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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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“All are embraced within the span of the eternal philosophic NOW.”
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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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“The establishment of the mind in wholes (unities) is essential to right thinking.”
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"Slayer and savior alike are marching on through the ages toward inevitable perfection."
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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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“Beauty is in the human soul, lifting us upward to ever nobler vistas of endeavor.”
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“All things are one in essence.”
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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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"The rational soul is necessarily unselfish because it conceives self to be distributed throughout the entire substance of Being."
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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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“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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“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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“Good, possessing the virtue of unity, must ever increase until it includes everything within its own nature.”
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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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"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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