LAMPS OF WESTERN MYSTICISM
Arthur Edward Waite
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"Under all outward illusion, and beneath all external phenomena, the Absolute is to be found within."
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"Begin where one may in the universe, all roads lead ultimately to God."
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"I think personally that God is All in all – yesterday, today and forever."
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"We are an immeasurable faculty of reception in the knowledge which comes from love."
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"God is of infinite perfection, incomprehensible intelligence and supereminent unity."
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"We are mind, desire and will, corresponding to the Great Mind, the Great Purpose and the all-embracing Love."
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"The grace behind Nature is Divine Immanence, and we know that it flows in through all channels; it stands at the door and knocks; it is with us all days."
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"The sign of life is in the symbolism; the life itself is in the grace behind the symbolism."
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"That One is the beginning and end of all."
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"The first realisable truth concerning the soul of man is the native nobility of that which can dream of union with God, can also attain it,…and by the experience of such attainment discovers that in the soul itself…is God realised and known in the sacred nature of things."
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"Knowledge is an inward state of our own essential being."
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"Goodwill abides at the centre. This centre... is everywhere, and is hence, in a certain sense, to be found in all."
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"Christianity, Indian Philosophy and Kabalism join in the recognition of an imperishable part of man and in its capacity for Divine Union."
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"God is in the soul and the soul in God…a mutual and inseparable indwelling, ever renewed in love."
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"Our human nature is a temple of the Divine Presence."
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"Consciousness in eternal love is the state in which God is All in all."
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"Goodness communicates its lights to men and remakes them to the likeness of His Sovereign Perfection."
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"The years of spiritual life on earth are as certain moons following conception, during which the form of divine desire is developed within us; and in due season we shall issue forth to see with our own eyes that which all things now foreshadow, all faiths make evident."
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"It is love which cleanses and love alone that sanctifies."
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"Every urge of our activity is a mode of love and every dedication has love as the root thereof."
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"The centre of grace is everywhere and the circumference nowhere."
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"The end of Western Mysticism was the return of the many into the One."
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"We are dwelling already in that love which is wedded to its source in God."
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"There is no aspiration and no ambition to compare with the search after truth. The necessity of truth is as imperative as that of love, but indeed the distinction is idle because truth is love."
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"The science of the soul is a science of active love."
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