"In the most noble part of the soul, the domain of our spiritual powers, we are constituted in the form of a living and eternal mirror of God; we bear in it the imprint of His eternal image and no other image can enter there." John Ruysbroeck, 'The Mirror of Eternal Salvation' (14th century)
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THE RAYS AND THE INITIATIONS
Alice A. Bailey
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"The divine Mind spins the thread of connecting light and relates all beings into Itself."
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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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"Religion is the name given to the invocative appeal of humanity and the evocative response of the greater Life to that cry. It is, in fact, the recognition by the part of its relationship to the Whole, plus a constantly growing demand for increased awareness of that relation."
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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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"The will-to-good is essentially the will of God."
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"Bliss is associated with complete Being; it concerns the interior attitude of the Whole."
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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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"From synthesis to synthesis the life of God passes. First the synthesis of the atomic lives into ever more perfect forms until the three kingdoms of nature appear [mineral, vegetable, animal]; then the synthesis in consciousness, enabling the human being to enter into the larger awareness of the Whole."
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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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"Evil is after all only an impelling sense of difference, leading inevitably to separative action."
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"The principle of freedom is a leavening energy which can permeate substance in a unique manner;….This principle of freedom is one of the attributes of Deity (like will, love and mind)."
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"Life is loving synthesis in action."
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"Divinity is all there is."
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"All form a great interlocking directorate through which the will of God is working out."
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"The urge-to-good pervades every aspect of the planetary Life from the smallest atom of substance, through all the intermediate living forms, on and up to the Logos Himself."
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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 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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"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 divine creative Plan is motivated by love and intelligently carried forward."
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"The circle with the point in the centre is symbolic of the perfected man. He is rounded out; he is inclusive both vertically (soul contact) and horizontally (human relationship)."
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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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"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 steady pulsation of the evolutionary rhythm permeates every atom, form, group and centre, producing effect upon the lowest forms of existence and on and up to the very highest; there is naught anywhere but progress and a steady moving forward into clearer light and greater livingness."
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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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