SPIRIT OF THE WORLD |
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THE PASSION OF THE WESTERN MIND: UNDERSTANDING THE IDEAS THAT HAVE SHAPED OUR WORLD VIEW
Richard Tarnas
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"In recognizing the universal in singular things the human mind is intellectually participating, however indirectly, in the original pattern by which God created that thing."
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"God is 'be-ing' itself."
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"No one ever does wrong knowingly, for it is the very nature of the good that when it is known, it is desired."
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"Aristotle regarded the mind as something that is eternally active, and indeed divine and immortal."
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"Created things participate in Existence, which is from God, the infinite self-subsistent ground of all being."
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"Archetypes form the world and also stand beyond it. They manifest themselves within time and yet are timeless. They constitute the veiled essence of things."
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"Although wayward chance and irrational necessity are real and have their place, they exist within a greater structure informed and governed by the universal intelligence."
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"The entire universe exists in a continual outflow from the One into created multiplicity, which is then drawn back to the One."
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"Every created thing possesses a true reality founded in God's infinite reality."
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"Happiness is the consequence not of physical or external circumstances, of wealth or power or reputation, but of living a life that is good for the soul."
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"It is the law of the universal Logos that everything is defined by, tends toward, and is ultimately balanced by its opposite, so that all opposites ultimately constitute a unity."
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"For Thomas Aquinas, God was not only the supreme Form drawing nature forth, but was also the very ground of nature's existence."
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"Man can rise to the consciousness of the World Soul – thereby becoming in actuality what he already is potentially."
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"All created beings participate firstly and most significantly in God's nature."
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"Thales affirmed both a single unifying primary substance and a divine omnipresence."
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"Being is by its nature a dynamic tendency toward the Absolute…..all creation begins and ends with, goes forth and returns to, the supreme One."
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"At the heart of Plato's conception of the world was the notion of a transcendent intelligence that rules and orders all things."
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"The earliest [Greek] philosophers perceived nature and divinity as intertwined."
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