"Universal archetypes are valid for all human beings, irrespective of race, culture and social conditions." Lama Anagarika Govinda, 'Symbols of Transformation'
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THE SECRET DOCTRINE
Helena P. Blavatsky
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"The future, like the past, is ever alive in the present."
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"That which is neither Spirit nor matter – that is It – the Causeless Cause of Spirit and Matter, which are the Cause of Kosmos. And That we call the One Life or the Intra-Cosmic Breath."
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"Nature implants in man as well as in every beast a passionate, inherent, and instinctive desire for freedom and self-guidance."
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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 manifested Universe reflects itself in each of its Monads, as Leibnitz put it."
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"In the manifold unity of universal life, the innumerable individualities distinguished by their variations, are, nevertheless, united in such a manner that the whole is one, and everything proceeds from Unity."
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"The radical unity of the ultimate essence of each constituent part of compounds in Nature – from Star to mineral to Atom, from the highest to the smallest, in the fullest acceptation of the term, and whether applied to the spiritual, intellectual, or physical worlds – this is the one fundamental law."
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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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"Brahma is in every atom of the universe."
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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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"There is a harmony of numbers in all nature; in the force of gravity, in the planetary movements, in the laws of heat, light, electricity, and chemical affinity, in the forms of animals and plants, in the perception of the mind." 'Medical Review', July 1844
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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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"The one Universal Light is ever existent." Chaldean Book of Numbers
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"Brahma and the universe form one Being, each particle of which is in its essence Brahma himself, who proceeded out of himself."
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"There is but one Absolute basis, from, on, and in which are built the countless basic centres on which proceed the Universal, cyclic, and individual Evolutions."
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"The 'Ideal Forms' are the archetypal or formative ideas…the eternal and subjective concepts of things subsisting in the divine mind prior to becoming."
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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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"The one divine Principle, the nameless That of the Vedas, is the universal Total."
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"The One gives life to the whole Kosmos."
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"The opposite poles…are but aspects of the One Unity in which they are synthesized."
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"The Circle is the Thought; the diameter (or the line) is the Word; and their union is Life."
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"Being is an endless cycle within the one absolute eternity, wherein move numberless inner cycles."
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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 spirit of Nature is a unity, creating and forming everything." Johannes Tritheim, Abbot of Spanheim and Kabalist
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"There can only be….One eternal ever present Cause."
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