THE SECRET DOCTRINE
Helena P. Blavatsky
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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 one divine Principle, the nameless That of the Vedas, is the universal Total."
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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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"Brahma IS this universe itself."
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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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"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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"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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"Every one is a living mirror of the universe, every monad reflecting every other."
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"The mighty One rules all things….and ordains the eternal laws that govern the world." Nordic Scrolls of Wisdom
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"Time and Space are forms of the One incognizable Deity."
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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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"A body may be considered divorced from its relations with other bodies…only conceptually. In fact, it can never be so detached: death itself being unable to detach it from its relation with the Univbersal forces, of which the one Force of Life is the synthesis."
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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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"There is but One Universal Element, which is infinite, unborn, and undying, and all the rest – as in the world of phenomena – are but so many various differentiated aspects and transformations of that One, from cosmical down to microcosmical effects, from super-human to human and sub-human beings, the totality, in short, of objective existence."
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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 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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"The spirit of Nature is a unity, creating and forming everything." Johannes Tritheim, Abbot of Spanheim and Kabalist
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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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"Mankind, collectively and individually, is, with all manifested nature, the vehicle of the breath of the One Universal Principle."
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"The first principles in Hindu religious philosophy is 'Unity in diversity.'" Colonel Vans Kennedy
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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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"The whole world has been pervaded by the energy of the deity." Vishnu Purana
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"One is the One and All."
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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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