REINCARNATION: THE PHOENIX FIRE MYSTERY
Cranston/Head, editors
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"Having flung aside the sword, there is nothing except the cup of love which I can offer to those who oppose me." Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948), Apostle of non-violence, letter to Madeleine Salde, a British admiral's daughter
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"Philosophically viewed, the whirling wheel and its ever motionless center can be a potent symbol of the human struggle toward insight and harmony…..Only in the still center of the imperishable Self is true perspective apparently achieved."
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"We have in our experience a perception that we are eternal…we perceive that our mind is eternal, and that this its existence cannot be defined by time or interpreted by duration." Baruch Spinoza, (1632-1677), Dutch philosopher, 'Ethics', Book V, Proposition 23
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"The soul has a principle of its own leading to the realm of Intelligence…joining it to that which IS, even to the divine nature." Iamblichus (ca. 250-330), Greek philosopher, 'The Egyptian Mysteries'
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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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"From infancy every forgotten day and hour has added to our experiences, to our growth and capacity, made its contribution to the mind and soul." W. Macneile Dixon
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"We are always given a second, and another chance, and another chance, until all of us are able to graduate, to return to the Source and Creator of all life." Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, foreword
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"There are good reasons for making the following important assertion: A soul is indestructible and immortal. It carries an indelible record of all its activities." Gustaf Stromberg (1882-1962), Swedish-American astronomer and physicist, 'The Soul', ch. 11
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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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"This is to be understood by the heart: there is no separateness at all." The Brihad Aranyaka Upanishad
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"Not only souls but animals also are ingenerable and imperishable; they are only developed, enveloped, reclad, stripped, transformed; souls never leave the whole of their body, and do not pass from one body to another which is entirely new to them." Leibniz (1646-1716), German philosopher and mathematician, 'Principles of Nature'
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"Immortality is a word which stands for the stability or permanence of that unique and precious quality we discern in the soul." W. Macneile Dixon, 'The Human Situation'
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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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"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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"I look upon death to be as necessary to the constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning." Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), American statesman, scientist and philosopher, letter to a friend
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"Deity is the One Universal SELF." Editors
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"All Spirits were created blameless, all must at last return to their original perfection." Rev. William R. Inge, dean of St. Paul's Cathedral, London, Gifford Lectures
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"The soul of man is immortal…is never destroyed." Plato, 'Meno'
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"Begin heart and soul to spread the teaching of universal brotherhood…universal brotherhood rests upon the common soul." H. B. Blavatsky, interview in London, 1887
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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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"Man is the dialogue between nature and God." J. W. von Goethe (1749-1832), German poet
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"While I study to find how I am a Microcosm, or little World, I find myself something more than the great. There is surely a piece of Divinity in us, something that was before the Elements." Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682), British physician and author, 'Religio Medici'
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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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"Heaven, Earth, and I were produced together, and all things and I are one." Chuang Tzu (c. 300 bc), Chinese philosopher, from 'The Texts of Taoism', James Legge, translator, Dover 1962
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