THE SEVEN HUMAN POWERS: LUMINOUS SHADOWS OF THE SELF
Shirley J. Nicholson
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"At times when you are very quiet and when desire and emotion have become stilled, you can observe the quiet shaping of yourself from within – can see the form you are intended to take, the work you should do – your function in the environment and the scheme of things….it is a deep and intelligent observation of your own nature and propensities. When you have seen yourself clearly, then it stops all the speculation and striving, all the doubt and uncertainty….In the rarefied atmosphere of truth, your words, your thoughts, your acts will bring manifest form to that quiet vision." Virginia Tower
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"We are each a microcosm of the great macrocosm, according to Theosophy and other wisdom traditions; the structure of our nature mirrors that of the universe."
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"As physicists posit a unified field encompassing all known physical fields, atma, the One Life, Brahman, God can be thought of as a unified field in which all the principles, fields, and levels of cosmos inhere."
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"Spiritual will is the transcendent principle within us which forms as it were the very heart and core of our being." T. K. Taimni
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"Individual consciousness in its pure, unclouded state is one with God or the One Life that sustains the cosmos."
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"Religious traditions generally consider that humans do have free will."
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"There is an immortal center of being in us."
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"Each of us, far from being separate and independent, has our being in a system of interpenetrating universal fields at different levels. We are supported by and are part of the entire cosmos."
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"Many theologians consider the human will to be comparable to God's will, which created the world. Theosophy and the esoteric tradition consider will in its highest aspect to be the core of our nature, for spiritual will is an expression of our most essential self."
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"There is an inner direction and meaning that inheres at the transpersonal level in every life."
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"There is only one consciousness in a cosmic sense." Saul-Paul Sirag, scientist
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"I believe, as did the Buddha, that to be ourselves and to find our way, we need to know who we are. Seeking self-knowledge is not a waste of time or selfishness but down-to-earth and practical. It has results in the world."
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"Self-knowledge is vital. All other forms of knowledge are of secondary importance; for a man's action, feeling, reasoning, and thinking are dependent on his idea of the Self." Shankaracharya, 'Self-Knowledge', ch. xv
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"At the level of pure consciousness…we are one with everything, a focus of that which is undivided and universal."
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"We are one with a divine field of consciousness, with Brahman or God."
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"In the highest form of will, the personality and even the transpersonal self are inspired by the universal will, call it God or atma, for the good of the whole."
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"In conscious union with the One, the high purpose of human life is fulfilled."
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"Even as the self knows itself as the transcendental subject, it expands and becomes all." V. K. Chari
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"One pervasive consciousness runs through us and everything else. As numberless ponds and even muddy puddles reflect the one moon, the light of consciousness in each of us has but one source."
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"We are evolving toward the goal of conscious unity with all."
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"The One Light illumines all creation."
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"In our times, we are under the admonition at the entrance to the shrine of the Delphic oracle: 'Know thyself.'"
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"The union of the separate Will with the one Will for the helping of the world is the goal which seems to be more worthy of reaching after than any the world can offer." Annie Besant, 'Study in Consciousness'
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"Spiritual and divine powers lie dormant in every human Being." H. P. Blavatsky, 'Key to Theosophy'
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"Our deepest spiritual core is outside the sphere of individual selfhood. It is universal and impersonal, one with the divine or Brahman, the one essence of all."
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