"A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love." Francis Bacon (1561-1626), English philosopher, 'On Friendship'
The Great Thoughts - George Seldes, compiler
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LECTURES ON ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY
Manly P. Hall
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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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"The whole partakes of the attributes of the parts in fullness and perfect harmony. Hence the whole is the master of its parts, which are powerless to force their fragmentary agencies upon the structure of wholeness itself."
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"The glorious Universal Self is the One who is in all, the All which is in each."
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“The all-sufficiency of Universal Good is all-sufficing.”
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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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"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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“Good, possessing the virtue of unity, must ever increase until it includes everything within its own nature.”
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"The Beautiful is an eternal flow; it is the One in motion."
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“All things are one in reality and in essence.”
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“The One and Undivided is the very foundation of manifested existence.”
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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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“When we adore the God of harmony, we shall know the inner mystery of life.”
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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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“Every human soul is innately divine.”
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“The law of the soul is love.”
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“Beauty is in the human soul, lifting us upward to ever nobler vistas of endeavor.”
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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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“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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"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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"The rational soul is necessarily unselfish because it conceives self to be distributed throughout the entire substance of Being."
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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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“Brotherhood extends to all corners of the earth, including all races and species without distinction.”
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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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"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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"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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