"Call Them by what name you choose, the most cherished belief of humanity is that there exists in the world always and for ever a hidden Reality, Those Who have conquered death, Who possess illimitable powers to help, and Who can be reached by prayer and invocation."
The Externalization of the Hierarchy - Alice A. Bailey
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REINCARNATION: THE PHOENIX FIRE MYSTERY
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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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"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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"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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"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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"The principles of the successive phases of Spirit are themselves only steps in the development of one universal Spirit." G. W. F. Hegel (1770-1831), German philosopher
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"From my own research in life after death…it becomes very clear that we are all born from the Source, from God, as human beings who are blessed with all the gifts necessary to fulfill our destiny." Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, foreword
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"Every soul brings a kind of sense with it into the world, whereby it tastes and relishes what is suitable to its peculiar temper [temperament]." Joseph Glanville (1636-1680, chaplain to King Charles II), 'Lux Orientalis'
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"The soul is an emanation of the Divinity, a part of the soul of the world." Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), American philosopher and essayist, Journals for 1830
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"In the circle, which comprehends in itself the beginning and the end, we have the figure of true being; and circular motion is the only enduring form of motion. From this Spirit, which is called the Life of the Universe, proceed the life and soul of everything which has soul and life." Giordano Bruno (1548-1600), Italian philosopher and poet, answer at his trial before the Inquisitor in Venice, May 1592, quoted by I. Firth in "Life of Giordano Bruno, Boston 1887, p. 123
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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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"This day before dawn I ascended a hill and looked at the crowded heaven. And I said to my spirit, When we become the enfolders of those orbs, and the pleasure and knowledge of everything in them, shall we be filled and satisfied then? And my spirit said, No, we but level that lift to pass and continue beyond." Walt Whitman, 'Leaves of Grass'
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"He who has attained discernment and is wise knows the true Self, saying, 'I am the Eternal'…discern the universal Self, the Eternal, changeless, and enjoy supreme peace." Sankara, 'The Crest Jewel of Wisdom'
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"There is somewhat of the absolute and eternal in every human soul…something that transcends time and space and organic form, and makes eternity for the soul to be the continuous unfolding of a perpetual and indestructible principle of life." William J. Potter (1830-1893), Unitarian minister, article in 'The Radical', April 1868
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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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"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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"These tales are the purveyors of deep insights that have sustained mankind through the long vicissitudes of its existence…The myth presents its theme in a majestic way; it carries spiritual force; and the divine is present." Bruno Bettelheim, 'The Uses of Enchantment
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"The dreams of ancient and modern man are written in the same language as the myths whose authors lived in the dawn of history…symbolic language is the one foreign language that each of us must learn. Its understanding brings us in touch with one of the most significant sources of wisdom, that of the myth, and it brings us in touch with the deeper layers of our own personalities….Indeed, both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves." Erich Fromm, 'The Forgotten Language'
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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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"Whether they are Syrian, Greek, Egyptian or Hindu, the writers of the sacred books seem to me as men who had all gazed upon the same august vision and reported of the same divinity." George W. Russell (1867-1935), Irish author, 'The Candle of Vision'
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"By deep meditation…recognize the subtile nature of the supreme Self, and its presence in all organisms." The Code of Manu (ancient Hindu text),
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"The virtues we acquire, which develop slowly within us, are the invisible links that bind each one of our existences to the others." Honore de Balzac, 'Seraphita'
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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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""Thou art from old, O Soul of man, yea, thou art from everlasting." Egyptian Hermetic Fragments
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"Then everything becomes one, all individualities are merged into one, yet each knowing itself, a mysterious teaching indeed. But then, that which to us now is non-conscious or the unconscious, will then be absolute consciousness." H. B. Blavatsky, 'Transactions of the Blavatsky Lodge'
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