"As viewed by astronauts from the moon, the earth lacks those lines of sociopolitical division that are so prominent on maps….The web of interlacing socioeconomic interdependencies that now infolds the planet is of one life. All that is required is a general change of vision to accord with these contemporary facts. And that this will occur is certain. It is, in fact, already occuring. Moreover, the vision required is nothing new, nor unnatural."
The Inner Reaches of Outer Space, Metaphor as Myth and as Religion - Joseph Campbell
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THE ANCIENT WISDOM
Annie Besant
An outline of Theosophical teachings
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"The eternal Existence is proclaimed in the Chhandogyopanishad as 'One only, without a second.'"
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"The one Life takes on countless limitations, each right in its own place and time."
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"The One Self is in all."
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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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"Man is a dignified, immortal being, evolving towards a divinely glorious end."
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"The One underlies all the diversities of external nature."
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"Those who learn the truth about their own nature become free."
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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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"All things live in rhythmical vibrations, all seek the harmonious and are repelled by dissonance."
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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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"Life is one, it streams out perpetually as the free outpouring of the love of the Logos."
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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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"We are one in our origin, one in the method of our evolution, one in our goal."
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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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"Man in his inner Self is one with the Self of the universe."
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"The human soul is the image of the Universal Mind."
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"One nourishes many sides, thus All is One." The Zohar, Isaac Myer's translation
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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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"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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"All are One and are knotted in One, nor are they separated one from another." The Zohar
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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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"Until man has found the real Self, his own unreality makes him subject to illusions."
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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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"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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"The Founders of the great religions are members of the one Brotherhood."
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