THE ANCIENT WISDOM
Annie Besant
An outline of Theosophical teachings
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"The One underlies all the diversities of external nature."
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"God is immanent in every atom, all-pervading, all-sustaining, all-evolving; He is its source and its end, its cause and its object, its centre and circumference; it is built on Him as its sure foundation, it breathes in Him as its encircling space; He is in everything and everything in Him."
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"Nothing is real but the one Life that we seek for and love unconsciously under its many veils."
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"The one Breath of the whole universe, I know that mighty Spirit, the shining sun beyond the darkness….I know Him the unfading, the ancient, the Soul of all, omnipresent by His nature." Shvetash-vataropanishad, iii, 8, 21
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"To those who are good to me I am good; and to those who are not good to me I am also good; and thus all get to be good." Tao The Ching
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"All things live in rhythmical vibrations, all seek the harmonious and are repelled by dissonance."
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"We are one in our origin, one in the method of our evolution, one in our goal."
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"All are One and are knotted in One, nor are they separated one from another." The Zohar
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"One nourishes many sides, thus All is One." The Zohar, Isaac Myer's translation
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"The life of the Logos abiding in each form is its central, controlling, and directing energy."
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"The eternal Existence is proclaimed in the Chhandogyopanishad as 'One only, without a second.'"
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"This Self is the One, and hence is spoken of as the Monad, and this Monad is the outbreathed life of the Logos, containing within itself germinally, or in a state of latency, all the divine powers and attributes."
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"Strength and calm and wisdom come to those who behold with opened eyes the glory of the Good Law."
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"Man is a dignified, immortal being, evolving towards a divinely glorious end."
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"The human soul is the image of the Universal Mind."
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"Those who learn the truth about their own nature become free."
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"Life is one; happy they who see its presence, and make themselves the channels of its living force."
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"Until man has found the real Self, his own unreality makes him subject to illusions."
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"Pure love brought the universe into being, pure love maintains it, pure love draws it upwards towards perfection, towards bliss."
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"The great doctors of the Catholic Church always posit the unfathomable Deity, incomprehensible, infinite, and therefore necessarily but One and partless."
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"Man remains forever free at the centre."
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"Life is one, it streams out perpetually as the free outpouring of the love of the Logos."
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"As a magnet has its magnetic field, an area within which all its forces play, larger or smaller according to its strength, so has every man a field of influence within which play the forces he emits, and these forces work in curves that return to their forthsender, that re-enter the centre whence they emerged."
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"Light everywhere meets with light; since everything contains all things in itself and again sees all things in another. So that all things are everywhere and all is all. Each thing likewise is everything." Plotinus, quoted in G. R. S. Mead's introduction to Taylor's 'Plotinus'
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"The Self is a living beam of the one Light and Life of the universe."
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