THE SECRET DOCTRINE
Helena P. Blavatsky
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"Wise is he who holds to the golden mid-point, who believes in the eternal justice of things."
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"The unity and mutual relations of all parts of Kosmos were known to the ancients, before they became evident to modern astronomers and philosophers."
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"No manifested thing can be thought of except as part of a larger whole: the total aggregate being the One manifested Universe."
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"As a spider throws out and retracts its web, as herbs spring up in the ground….so is the Universe derived from the undecaying One." Mandukya Upanishad
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"The manifested Universe reflects itself in each of its Monads, as Leibnitz put it."
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"Every one of the higher, as of the lower worlds, is interblended with our own objective world; millions of things and beings are, in point of localization, around us and IN us, as we are around, with, and in them; it is no metaphysical figure of speech, but a sober fact in Nature, however incomprehensible to our senses."
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"From Gods to men, from Worlds to atoms, from a star to a rush-light, from the Sun to the vital heat of the meanest organic being – the world of Form and Existence is an immense chain, whose links are all connected."
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"All that lives and breathes evolves from the emanations of the One."
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"There is one eternal Law in nature, one that always tends to adjust contraries and to produce final harmony."
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"The whole Cosmos must necessarily exist in the One Source of energy from which this light emanates."
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"The Past time is the Present time, as also the Future, which, though it has not come into existence, still is." 'Book of the 10,000 Precepts'
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"From the One Life formless and uncreate, proceeds the Universe of lives."
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"God is the Architect of the Universe."
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"The one Life is eternal, invisible, yet Omnipresent, without beginning or end."
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"All things and all living beings have originated from one common source."
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"God (the Universal Spirit) objectivises himself as Nature, and again rises out of it." Hegel
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"The one divine Principle, the nameless That of the Vedas, is the universal Total."
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"The first principles in Hindu religious philosophy is 'Unity in diversity.'" Colonel Vans Kennedy
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"The operations of the two contraries produce harmony, like the centripetal and centrifugal forces, which are necessary to each other – mutually interdependent – in order that both should live."
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"Being is an endless cycle within the one absolute eternity, wherein move numberless inner cycles."
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"Time and Space are forms of the One incognizable Deity."
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"That which in modern phraseology is referred to as Spirit and Matter, is ONE in eternity as the perpetual cause, and it is…all that is, was, or will be, all that the imagination of man is capable of conceiving."
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"From one Soul, that of All, spring all the Souls, which spread themselves as if purposely distributed through the world." Stobaeus (ca. 5th century), Greek compiler of ancient fragments, 'Eclogae Physicae et Ethicae'
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"Every monad reflects every other. Every monad is a living mirror of the Universe within its own sphere."
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"The Eternal Mind diffused through all the parts of nature actuates the whole stupendous frame and mingles with the vast body of the universe." Virgil
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