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"All activity which drives the human being forward towards some form of development – physical, emotional, mental, intuitional, social – if it is in advance of his present state is essentially spiritual in nature and is indicative of the livingness of the inner divine entity."
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Education in the New Age
Alice A. Bailey
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“Thou art from old, O Soul of Man; yea, thou art from everlasting.” Books of Hermes
Lives of the Masters: The Rest of the Jesus Story
(Glen Sanderfur)
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“On the cross, Jesus’ immortal plea as recorded in Luke 23:34 was ‘Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.’…He made no exception for those who had wrongfully abused him; theirs too was the promise of heaven.”
Lives of the Masters: The Rest of the Jesus Story
(Glen Sanderfur)
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“The voice of Jesus is, verily, the voice of the eternal being. Through Him is expressed the call of the infinite to the finite, the call of the cosmic being to the individual, the call of God to man. His divine voice is the same, therefore, as the voice of the Vedas and Upanishads, the voice of the Koran, the Zendavesta, Dharmapada and all such scriptures of the great religions of the world.” Janet Bock, ‘The Jesus Mystery’
Lives of the Masters: The Rest of the Jesus Story
(Glen Sanderfur)
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“Jesus’ creed and theology is simple. It is the love of God and all persons which was his hallmark.”
Lives of the Masters: The Rest of the Jesus Story
(Glen Sanderfur)
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“God works in the soul, so that He may bring it back to the source from which it first flowed out.” From the Book of the Poor in Spirit
The Soul Afire, Revelations of the Mystics
(H. A. Reinhold, editor)
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“Let us love one another with a sincere heart.” Roman Missal
The Soul Afire, Revelations of the Mystics
(H. A. Reinhold, editor)
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“’Everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. He who does not love does not know God; for God is love.’ Thus writes St. John in his First Epistle.” Don Luigi Sturzo (1871-1959), social reformer
The Soul Afire, Revelations of the Mystics
(H. A. Reinhold, editor)
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“Lead us, Shepherd of the sheep, reason-gifted, holy One.” Clement of Alexandria (ca. 150-215 ad), head of the Alexandrian catechetic school
The Soul Afire, Revelations of the Mystics
(H. A. Reinhold, editor)
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“St. Augustine says: ‘God is a most simple being, and yet He works in a most manifold way, being all things in each single thing, and one in all of them together.” Blesed John Tauler (1300-1361), Dominican scholar
The Soul Afire, Revelations of the Mystics
(H. A. Reinhold, editor)
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“The Soul sees in the Divine light how considerately, and with what unfailing providence, God is ever leading it to its full perfection, and that He does it all through pure love.” St. Catherine of Genoa (1447-1510), sister of the Annunciation Order
The Soul Afire, Revelations of the Mystics
(H. A. Reinhold, editor)
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“When with her pure intellect now illumined with divine light, the naked soul sees God, then she knows herself.” Meister Eckhart (1260-1327)
The Soul Afire, Revelations of the Mystics
(H. A. Reinhold, editor)
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"Immortality should not be conceived as a survival post mortem [after death], but rather as a situation one is constantly creating for oneself, for which one is preparing, in which one is even participating from now onward and from this present world."
Myths, Dreams and Mysteries, The Encounter Between Contemporary Faiths and Archaic Realities
(Mircea Eliade)
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"Love can be viewed as a unity, a ubiquitous oneness."
God Is A Verb, Kabbalah and the Practice of Mystical Judaism
(Rabbi David A. Cooper)
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"Love breaks down every barrier, and fuses diverse groups in union….Love gathers all to itself, and carries all on with itself, welding separated units into a unified homogeneous whole."
A Treatise on White Magic
(Alice A. Bailey)
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"You are part of a much greater story that holds infinite possibilities beyond the filters of limited perception."
Miraculous Living
(Rabbi Shoni Labowitz)
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"The Laws of the universe are the modes of expression, the life impulses and the way of existence or activity of the One in Whom we live and move and have our being."
The Rays and The Initiations
(Alice A. Bailey)
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“It is not a question of ‘killing’ or destroying evil, but rather of recognizing it, in order to reequilibrate it and transmute it into the good by harnessing its energies: one can say, of ultimately redeeming it.”
Divine Light and Fire, Experiencing Esoteric Christianity
(Peter Roche deCoppens)
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"In the words and deeds of the past there lies hidden a treasure that men may use to strengthen and elevate their own characters."
I Ching or The Book of Changes
(Richard Wilhelm, translator)
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"It is the function of love to unite all things unto itself, and to hold all things together by extending its wholeness."
A Course in Miracles
(Helen Schucman and William Thetford)
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"The nature of the One must be grasped and comprehended."
The Rays and The Initiations
(Alice A. Bailey)
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