REINCARNATION: THE PHOENIX FIRE MYSTERY
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"Learned Audience, the Wisdom of Enlightenment is inherent in every one of us." Hui Neng (6th patriarch of Zen, 6th century ad),
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"The resources of wisdom are hidden in the depths of the human being." Ira Progoff (b. 1921), American psychologist, 'The Symbolic and the Real'
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"Cosmic law will help us to become all that we can possibly wish to be." Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904), Author, teacher, 'Exotics and Retrospectives'
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"I hold – in view of the rapid movement of the soul, its vivid memory of the past and its prophetic knowledge of the future, its many accomplishments, its vast range of knowledge, its numerous discoveries – that a nature embracing such varied gifts cannot itself be mortal." Cicero (106-43 bc), Roman statesman and philosopher, 'On Old Age'
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"Of this I am sure…that we ARE here for a purpose. And that we go on. Mind and memory – they are the eternals." Henry Ford (1863-1947), American businessman, interview in the Hearst papers, April 27, 1938
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"The whole infinity of discrete and independent souls is yet fused into a vast Whole…within the immensity of the World Soul." Dorothea Waley Singer, 'Giordano Bruno, His Life and Thought'
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"Acting from the highest levels in his being, man is the creative and controlling force in the Universe;….Hence Maeterlinck's famous saying, 'Let us always remember that nothing befalls us that is not of the nature of ourselves.'" Christmas Humphreys (b. 1901), British author and Buddhist philosopher, 'Karma and Rebirth'
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"Only through awakening to the oneness of one's true Self with the Eternal, does liberation come." Sankaracharya, 'The Crest Jewel of Wisdom'
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"It is not really the ears or eyes that hear or see…The sense-organs are instruments the Self uses for Itself….The Self is here right before us in full revelation." D. T. Suzuki, 'Self the Unattainable'
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"That which is 'essential' in the universe is eternal and indestructible; permanent through all the transitory appearances of things. That which is essential in the universe passes, by evolution, from the unconscious to the conscious. Individual consciousness is an integral part of that which is essential in the universe and itself indestructible and eternal, it evolves from unconsciousness to consciousness." Gustave Geley (1868-1924), French psychologist and physician, 'From the Unconscious to the Conscious'
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"Attached to the Real, the man goes to the Real, through steadfastness in the one; so the larva, meditating on the bee, is transformed into the nature of the bee, enters into the being of the bee; so the seeker for union, meditating on the reality of the supreme Self, enters therein through steadfastness in the one." Sankaracharya, 'The Crest Jewel of Wisdom'
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"The soul is ever immortal, and is a portion of the divinity that inhabits our bodies." Flavius Josephus (1st century Jewish historian), 'The Jewish War'
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"Deity and the cosmos may be likened to a circle or sphere whose circumference is nowhere – hence boundless – but those center is everywhere. And each monad is such a divine, immortal, preexistent center." Editors
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"All are one in our common humanity." H. B. Blavatsky, interview in London, 1887
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"By birth and growth the spirit-architect expands into this mass of which we consist, spreading outwards from the heart. Thither again it withdraws, winding up the threads of its web, returning by the same path along which it advanced, passed out by the same gate through which it entered. Birth is expansion of the center….death contraction to the center. It is the soul that gathers about it, groups and vivifies the atom-mass." Giordano Bruno (1548-1600), Italian philosopher and poet, quoted in J. Lewis McIntyre's 'Giordano Bruno', Macmillan, 1903
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"Within the soul is a spark of the Itongo, the Universal Spirit." Mankanyezi, Zulu Wise Man
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"The immortal Self is a ray or emanation of the Universal Self." Editors
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"If you seek for man in his dead body, you are seeking for him in vain…The form may be destroyed: but the spirit remains and is living, for it is the subjective life." Paracelsus (1493-1541), Swiss physician and alchemist, 'The Life of Phillupus Theophrastus Bombast of Hohenheim'
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"Yes, a divine instinct that always grows in light and strength helps us to comprehend that nothing in the whole world wholly dies." George Sand (1803-1876), French author
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"The soul of man is immortal…is never destroyed." Plato, 'Meno'
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"There dwells in the heart of every creature the Master who by his magic power causes all things and creatures to revolve mounted upon the universal wheel of time. Take sanctuary with him with all thy soul." Krishna, 'The Bhagavad Gita'
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"Let us face it: 'deep down' nobody in his right mind can visualize his own existence without assuming that he has always lived and will live hereafter; and the religious world-views of old endowed this psychological feeling with images and ideas which could be shared, transmitted, and ritualized." Erik H. Erikson (b. 1902), 'Gandhi's Truth'
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"It is in love, and in nothing else, that we find not only the supreme value of life, but also the supreme reality of life, and indeed, of the universe." John Ellis McTaggart (1866-1925), British philosopher, 'Human Immortality and Pre-Existence'
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"Each religion has its own method of realisation whereby the ultimate reality, the final self, the integrating principle is reached." D. T. Suzuki, 'What Is Shin Buddhism?",
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"Deity is the One Universal SELF." Editors
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