THE RAYS AND THE INITIATIONS
Alice A. Bailey
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"Life is one and naught can ever take or touch that life."
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"The nature of the soul is relationship."
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"Coherency, affecting lives, forms and substances, is an expression of will and purpose, motivated by love and implemented intelligently in carrying forward the plans through which the Purpose seeks expression."
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"Love is a word for the underlying motive of creation."
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"All the varying aspects of the life of God are interdependent and not one proceeds onward into fuller realisation without benefiting the entire group."
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"Behind all the successive revelations of divinity down the ages is to found one significant purpose; all of them are and will prove themselves to be aspects of the Great Revelation."
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"Realise practically that the souls of [humanity] are one, and learn to look beyond the immediate outer seeming to the inner spiritual consciousness."
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"The will-to-good is essentially the will of God."
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"The goal of the initiate is identification with all forms of the divine life, so that he can know himself to be an integral part of that Whole and can tune in on all states of divine awareness, knowing for himself (and not just theoretically) they they are also his own states of awareness."
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"Let the OM be heard right at the center of the group, proclaiming God is All."
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"All basic and fundamental changes taking place upon the physical plane are necessarily the result of inner subjective causes, emanating from the divine consciousness."
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"All that we can contact and know is interdependent, and the unfoldment of the Life in Whom we live and move and have our being affects every aspect."
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"The divine Mind spins the thread of connecting light and relates all beings into Itself."
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"There is in the last analysis but one world and one humanity."
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"Progress from a dimly lighted area in the divine manifestation into one of supernal glory is the story of the Path of Evolution."
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"The future progress of humanity is aided and hastened because of the attainment and activity of the Christ."
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"Individual purpose must be identified with group purpose which is as much of the purpose of the Whole or the One Life as the little life can grasp at any given point in time and space."
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"Humanity is today on the verge of major awakening and joint registration of a unity not hitherto reached; the growth of the spirit of internationalism, the inclusiveness of the scientific attitude, and the spread of a universal humanitarian welfare movement are all indicative of this meeting place."
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"Obedience to the Plan brings revelation of the hidden Purpose."
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"The birth hour may be long and the form may be 'in labour' for much time, but the Christ will be born and the nature of the Christ and His consciousness will permeate and colour all human affairs."
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"Freedom is an essentially spiritual attribute, underlying the entire evolutionary process; this should always be remembered as a strengthening and conditioning reality by all men everywhere. It has survived aeons of opposition from the principle of enslaving selfishness and is largely responsible, at this time, for the struggle in which we are all participating."
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"God is mind. God is intelligent functioning. God is creative activity….God is relationship. God is consciousness."
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"The will is a penetrating power which relates Plan to Purpose and which has in it the faculty of coherent persistence. The reason for this persistence is that it is not dependent upon the content of the form – whether it is the form of an atom, of a man or of a planet – but upon a vital dynamic and immutable purpose, latent in the consciousness of the Being Who 'having pervaded this entire universe with a fragment' of Himself, remains – greater…and firmer in intent than any of His creations, even the most advanced."
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"Divinity is the expression of the will or purpose of the One in Whom we live and move and have our being."
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"We must seek to understand the sum total in the light of the part, the Macrocosm in the light of the Microcosm."
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