LECTURES ON ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY
Manly P. Hall
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“The all-sufficiency of Universal Good is all-sufficing.”
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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 sure and eternal path winds through the illusion and leads ultimately to the attainment of perfect good.”
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"Slayer and savior alike are marching on through the ages toward inevitable perfection."
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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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“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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“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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“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 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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“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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“Plato maintained that the One is All-Being.”
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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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"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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"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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“Think of religion as the universal adoration of creative principles common to all humanity.”
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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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“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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“The One and Undivided is the very foundation of manifested existence.”
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“Brotherhood extends to all corners of the earth, including all races and species without distinction.”
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“The establishment of the mind in wholes (unities) is essential to right thinking.”
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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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“All are embraced within the span of the eternal philosophic NOW.”
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“All things subsist in all things.”
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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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