LECTURES ON ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY
Manly P. Hall
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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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"To know the nature of all things is to realize that all things are good."
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"Perfect consciousness is perfect realization of the nature and relationship of parts to the fundamental unity in which they exist."
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"Slayer and savior alike are marching on through the ages toward inevitable perfection."
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“Since the generated world is a collective whole, if we apply the ears of our intellect to the world we shall, perhaps, hear it thus addressing us: ‘There is no doubt but I was composed from all animals, entirely sufficient to myself, and destitute of nothing;…All things are contained in my ample bosom.” Plotinus, ‘On Providence’
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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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"The aspiring soul seeks Self in the selflessness of the Great Law."
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“Beauty is in the human soul, lifting us upward to ever nobler vistas of endeavor.”
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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 essence.”
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“The establishment of the mind in wholes (unities) is essential to right thinking.”
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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 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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“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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“For this age we must have a doctrine of synthesis, a code actuated and dominated by the spirit of unification.”
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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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“All things are one in reality and in essence.”
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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 all-sufficiency of Universal Good is all-sufficing.”
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“Perfect rhythms stream continually from the splendor of Abiding Destiny.”
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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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“Man is eternally bound by his innate Reality to the Absolute, which is the fullness of Reality.”
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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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"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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“The sure and eternal path winds through the illusion and leads ultimately to the attainment of perfect good.”
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