"Buddhist, Hindu, Platonist, Christian, and Islamic traditions reflect an enduring realization, shared by countless people since ancient times, of a Reality ordinarily hidden but immediately recognized as our original face, our true identity (as a tiger among sheep), our immortal soul, our shared Ground with God."
The Future of the Body, Explorations Into the Further Evolution of Human Nature - Michael Murphy
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THE ANCIENT WISDOM
Annie Besant
An outline of Theosophical teachings
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"One nourishes many sides, thus All is One." The Zohar, Isaac Myer's translation
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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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"The life of the Logos abiding in each form is its central, controlling, and directing energy."
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"The one who is wise by love rises above all petty differences, and sees all drawing their life from the one source, all as part of his family."
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"All things live in rhythmical vibrations, all seek the harmonious and are repelled by dissonance."
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"Nothing can exist in which the Deity is not immanent…the Soul is present in the divine Idea."
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"Symbolically, in the infinite ocean of light, with centre everywhere and with circumference nowhere, there arises a full-orbed sphere of living light, a Logos, and the surface of the sphere is His will to limit Himself that He may become manifest, His veil in which He incloses Himself that within it a universe may take form."
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"The Founders of the great religions are members of the one Brotherhood."
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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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"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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"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 eternal Existence is proclaimed in the Chhandogyopanishad as 'One only, without a second.'"
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"Man is a dignified, immortal being, evolving towards a divinely glorious end."
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"The consciousness of this inner unity, the recognition of the One Self dwelling equally in all, is the one sure foundation of Brotherhood."
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"The One is the perfect chord of Being, of infinite melodious concords, all turned to a single note, in which Life and Wisdom and Bliss are blended into one keynote of Existence."
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"It is infolded Deity that is the guarantee of humanity's final triumph; this is the hidden motive power that makes evolution at once possible and inevitable, the upward-lifting force that slowly overcomes every obstacle and every difficulty."
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"Striking is the resemblance – or more correctly the identity – of the doctrine of the One in the Upanishads and the Eleatic school. Xenophanes' teaching of the unity of God and the Kosmos and of the changelessness of the One, and even more that of Parmenides, who held that reality is ascribable only to the One unborn, indestructible and omnipresent,….these doctrines are completely identical with the essential contents of the Upanishads and of the Vedantic philosophy which springs from them."
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"Man remains forever free at the centre."
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"A survey of the great religions of the world shows that they hold in common many religious, ethical, and philosophical ideas." Annie Besant, 'The Ancient Wisdom', Theosophical Publishing House 1983, p. 2
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"Those who learn the truth about their own nature become free."
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"The one Life takes on countless limitations, each right in its own place and time."
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"The human soul is the image of the Universal Mind."
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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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"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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"Strength and calm and wisdom come to those who behold with opened eyes the glory of the Good Law."
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