"Imagination (imaginatio is related to 'magnet', magia, imago) is a tool for the knowledge of the self, of the world, of myth; it is the eye of fire penetrating the surface of appearances in order to make meanings, connections, burst forth, to render the invisible visible…and to forge a link with a treasure that contributes to the enlargement of our prosaic vision."
Modern Esoteric Spirituality - Antoine Faivre and Jacob Needleman, editors
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Helena P. Blavatsky
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"Everything is drawn to its like, and converges with natures congenial to itself. Out of this sympathy and antipathy arises a constant movement in the whole world, and in all its parts, and uninterrupted communion which produces universal harmony. …one thing affects another one, even at great distances, notwithstanding the intervening space."
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"God formed things as they first arose according to forms and numbers." Plato, 'Timaeus'
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"Every soul has some portion of 'nous', reason, a person cannot be a person without it."
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"As the Soul of the World permeates the whole Cosmos, even beasts must have in them something divine."
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"There is a Supreme God who produced in his own mind a 'paradeigma' of all things."
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"One nature delights in another, one nature overcomes another, one nature overrules another, and the whole of them are One." Synesius
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"The myth is the undisclosed thought of the soul. The characteristic trait of the myth is to convert reflection into history."
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"Simple common sense precludes the possibility that the universe is the result of mere chance."
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"There is a canon of interpretation, which should guide us in our examinations of every philosophical opinion: The human mind has, under the necessary operation of its own laws, been compelled to entertain the same fundamental ideas, and the human heart to cherish the same feelings in all ages."
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"Not a nation, not a people, nor the most abject tribe, but after their own fashion has believed in an Unseen God, the First cause of unerring and immutable laws, and in the immortality of our spirit. No creed, no false philosophy, no religious exaggerations, could ever destroy that feeling. It must, therefore, be based upon an absolute truth."
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"The forces of the universe are ever in perfect harmony with the one great Immutable Law."
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"There never was nor ever will be a truly philosophical mind, whether of Pagan, Jew or Christian, but has followed the same path of thought. Gautama-Buddha is mirrored in the precepts of Christ; Paul and Philo Judaeus are faithful echoes of Plato, and Ammonius Saccas and Plotinus won their immortal fame by combining the teachings of all these grand masters of true philosophy. 'Prove all things; hold fast that which is good,' ought to be the motto of all brothers on earth."
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"The will of the Creator, through which all things were made and received their first impulse, is the property of every living being."
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“Freemasonry proclaims, as it has proclaimed from its origin, the existence of a creative principle, the great Architect of the universe.”
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"The unity of God, the immortality of the spirit, belief in salvation only through our works, merit and demerit; such are the principal articles of faith of the Wisdom-religion."
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"God blesses equally every beast of the field and every living creature, in the water as in the air, and He endows them all with life, which is a breath of His own Spirit."
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"A person's idea of God is that image of blinding light that he sees reflected in the concave mirror of his own soul."
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"Space is not an empty void, but a reservoir filled with the models of all things that ever were, that are, and that will be."
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"There is but one Magnet in the universe, and from it proceeds the magnetization of everything existing."
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"Harmony in the physical and mathematical world of sense, is justice in the spiritual one."
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"There is an intelligence or mind, the first principle of all principles, the Supreme Idea on which all other ideas are grounded; the Monarch and Lawgiver of the universe; the ultimate substance from which all things derive their being and essence, the first and efficient Cause of all the order, and harmony, and beauty, and excellency, and goodness, which pervades the universe."
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"Even so small a thing as the birth of one child upon our planet has its effect upon the universe, as the whole universe has its own reactive influence upon him."
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"It is undeniable that the theologies of all the great nations dovetail together and show that each is a part of one stupendous whole."
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"Of all the duties, the principal one is to acquire the knowledge of the supreme soul (the spirit); it is the first of all sciences."
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"Who can study carefully the ancient religious and cosmogonic myths without perceiving that this striking similitude of conceptions, in their esoteric spirit, is the result of no mere coincidence, but manifests a concurrent design? It shows that already in those ages which are shut out from our sight by the impenetrable mist of tradition, human religious thought developed in uniform sympathy in every portion of the globe."
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