"To build a clock or a car you take parts off the shelf and assemble them together. But in the case of self-organized and open systems the 'parts' are expressions of the entire system. A river isn't composed of smooth water and vortices glued together. Rather, the vortex, while remaining stable and identifiable, is an aspect of the entire river. Likewise, the volunteer groups in a community are expressions of the cohesion and meaning of that town or city."
From Certainty to Uncertainty, the Story of Science and Ideas in the Twentieth Century - F. David Peat
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THE RAYS AND THE INITIATIONS
Alice A. Bailey
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"The will-to-good is essentially the will of God."
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"Life is loving synthesis in action."
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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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"Evil is after all only an impelling sense of difference, leading inevitably to separative action."
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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 unfoldment of the love nature is that which opens the door which leads to the Way of the Higher Evolution and nothing else will open it."
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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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"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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"The history of evolution upon the Earth, from the angle of humanity, is one of progress, emphatic revolutionary decisions and climaxing crises. Without such a history we should not realise the progress made and the steady though gradual growth of sensitive response to environment, to contact and to impressions – mental and spiritual."
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"The divine Mind spins the thread of connecting light and relates all beings into Itself."
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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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"The nature of the soul is relationship."
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"Number gives the clue to the form and purpose of the life which the form veils."
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"Love, in a mysterious way, is the principle found at the heart of every atom."
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"All form a great interlocking directorate through which the will of God is working out."
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"The freedom of the human spirit, the freedom to think, govern and worship as innate, instinctual human desire may dictate, under the influence of the evolutionary process, the liberty to decide on the required form of government or of religion – these are the rightful prerogatives of mankind."
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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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"We are equally and essentially…expressions of the Monad, the One."
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"Love is a word for the underlying motive of creation."
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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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"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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"Life is one and naught can ever take or touch that life."
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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 will-to-good of the world knowers is the magnetic seed of the future."
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"Law, Love, Union or Synthesis – all these great energies have seeped into the human consciousness and now provide the platform upon which the new civilisation can be founded, the new approach to God be taken, and new human relations be implemented."
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