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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"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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"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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"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 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 eternal Existence is proclaimed in the Chhandogyopanishad as 'One only, without a second.'"
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"The human soul is the image of the Universal Mind."
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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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"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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"The life of the Logos abiding in each form is its central, controlling, and directing energy."
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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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"Until man has found the real Self, his own unreality makes him subject to illusions."
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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 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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"Those who learn the truth about their own nature become free."
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"Man remains forever free at the centre."
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"The one Life takes on countless limitations, each right in its own place and time."
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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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"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 underlies all the diversities of external nature."
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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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"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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"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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"Nothing can exist in which the Deity is not immanent…the Soul is present in the divine Idea."
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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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