THEOSOPHY, A MODERN EXPRESSION OF THE WISDOM OF THE AGES
Robert Ellwood
Dr. Robert Ellwood is Bashford Professor of Oriental Studies in the School of Religion at the University of Southern California. In this book, he gives a theosophical overview of creation, as well as a Theosophical interpretation of the Oneness of all life.
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“We humans are miniatures or microcosms of God.”
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“Everything we can do for good, however tiny, will not be lost.”
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"Plotinus and the Neoplatonic tradition saw the universe as a chain of being extending from the One, and the One was not only supreme ineffable Reality but also supreme Beauty known in ecstasy."
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"Whatever we do of creativity or love is inspired however unconsciously by the divine within."
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“Despite the trials and frustrations of the passing day, our lives are parts of something tremendously grand and joyous.”
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"A human being can never truly exist singly. On overt or subtle levels, he is linked to the destiny of the human race as a whole."
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“The great initiated souls who founded the great religions embodied the same essential truth under many different guises.”
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“The unity of the universe is its most basic reality.”
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"All we do in the way of selfless compassion and service will bring as its logical consequence enhanced experience of the basic Oneness through enhanced awareness….Here is at work the paradoxical but crucial truth inculcated by all spiritual masters, that he who gives up his life for the sake of higher things will find it, and find it a hundredfold."
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“To know the Buddha is to know that all sentient beings are buddhas; to love Christ is to see Christ in all.”
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“The fact that all persons are eternal Pilgrims and expressions of the divine within justifies the importance for the equal treatment of all regardless of race, sex, or creed.”
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"The ultimate unity of all reality and the interaction of all entities with larger environments in spatial and temporal webs, and the inseparability of consciousness from the universe's manifestations, can be arrived at on quite rational grounds and require no 'mystical' modes of knowing."
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“A core of truth lies in all religions.”
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"The universe is a great concourse of interconnected being, larger and smaller, inner and outer."
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"Behind all religion lies the selfsame reality, the primal awareness of the divine Ground of being."
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"The universe is like a magic hall of mirrors in which the reality of each entity, each Pilgrim, depends on the way he reflects all the other mirrors from a particular angle."
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“The universe is a mirror in which the Absolute – God, if you wish – knows itself.”
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“In their divine essence all humans are equal.”
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“Love is action based on recognition of the oneness of my life with another’s, that what the other suffers I must suffer, and that what I do for the other I do for myself, since our lives are bound together and share in the same divine nature.”
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"Compassion and service are the ethical expression of Unity, awarness of the illusive nature of all that seems to separate and differentiate."
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"One infinite… Reality underlies and unites all that is or can ever be."
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"All persons have a common origin, and each has a unique role to play in human history and human life; all equally have lessons to learn. On the other hand, each has lessons to teach."
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"Behind the symbols and languages of the world's manifold religions lies a common pattern of pointers to ultimate truth."
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"Symbol is a very important word in the world's religious and spiritual traditions. The word literally means in Greek 'falls with', suggesting something which bears with it more than itself…..to interact with a symbol, in other words, is to interact with more than the thing itself; it also brings one in touch with another reality."
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"One can no more know oneself or the oneness of all things without knowing the anguish of myriads who are part of that web of life, and responding to their anguish as though to one's own, than one could act in a play and ignore all the other actors in their parts."
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