"The Sovereign Ruler created all intelligent nature free and self-determining." St. Gregory Palamas, 'Topics of Natural and Theological Science' The Philokalia, volume 4 various authors, compiled by St. Nikodimos and St. Makarios

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1			"Then everything becomes one, all individualities are merged into one, yet each knowing itself, a mysterious teaching indeed. But then, that which to us now is non-conscious or the unconscious, will then be absolute consciousness." H. B. Blavatsky, 'Transactions of the Blavatsky Lodge' Reincarnation: The Phoenix Fire Mystery (Cranston/Head, editors)
2			"Having flung aside the sword, there is nothing except the cup of love which I can offer to those who oppose me." Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948), Apostle of non-violence, letter to Madeleine Salde, a British admiral's daughter Reincarnation: The Phoenix Fire Mystery (Cranston/Head, editors)
3			"It is in love, and in nothing else, that we find not only the supreme value of life, but also the supreme reality of life, and indeed, of the universe." John Ellis McTaggart (1866-1925), British philosopher, 'Human Immortality and Pre-Existence' Reincarnation: The Phoenix Fire Mystery (Cranston/Head, editors)
4			"One earns a vision by living it, not merely thinking about it." Herbert Fingarette (b. 1921), American philosopher and psychologist, 'The Self in Transformation' Reincarnation: The Phoenix Fire Mystery (Cranston/Head, editors)
5			"Spiritual knowledge and spiritual freedom are born as one." Herbert Fingarette (b. 1921), American philosopher and psychologist, 'The Self in Transformation' Reincarnation: The Phoenix Fire Mystery (Cranston/Head, editors)
6			"The virtues we acquire, which develop slowly within us, are the invisible links that bind each one of our existences to the others." Honore de Balzac, 'Seraphita' Reincarnation: The Phoenix Fire Mystery (Cranston/Head, editors)
7			"Somehow or other, things do eventually 'balance out' in the moral realm; each moral action produces, eventually, its quite specific moral reaction." Herbert Fingarette (b. 1921), American philosopher and psychologist', 'The Self in Transformation' Reincarnation: The Phoenix Fire Mystery (Cranston/Head, editors)
8			"Teaching is not a matter of something being placed in one person by another, but is a question of eliciting something that is already present, although only implicitly and latently, at hidden depths of the individual's mind." Ira Progoff (b. 1921), 'The Symbolic and the Real' Reincarnation: The Phoenix Fire Mystery (Cranston/Head, editors)
9			""Thou art from old, O Soul of man, yea, thou art from everlasting." Egyptian Hermetic Fragments Reincarnation: The Phoenix Fire Mystery (Cranston/Head, editors)
10			"The form ever changes, ever perishes, the informing spirit neither changes nor perishes." Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948), Indian Apostle of non-violence, letter to Madeleine Salde, a British admiral's daughter Reincarnation: The Phoenix Fire Mystery (Cranston/Head, editors)
11			"Everything goes, everything returns; eternally rolls the wheel of existence. Everything dies, everything blossoms forth again; eternally runs on the year of existence." Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), German philosopher, 'Thus Spake Zarathustra' Reincarnation: The Phoenix Fire Mystery (Cranston/Head, editors)
12			"Let us face it: 'deep down' nobody in his right mind can visualize his own existence without assuming that he has always lived and will live hereafter; and the religious world-views of old endowed this psychological feeling with images and ideas which could be shared, transmitted, and ritualized." Erik H. Erikson (b. 1902), 'Gandhi's Truth' Reincarnation: The Phoenix Fire Mystery (Cranston/Head, editors)
13			"I know for a fact that there is life after death." Dr. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, interview in People magazine, November 24, 1975 Reincarnation: The Phoenix Fire Mystery (Cranston/Head, editors)
14			"Begin heart and soul to spread the teaching of universal brotherhood…universal brotherhood rests upon the common soul." H. B. Blavatsky, interview in London, 1887 Reincarnation: The Phoenix Fire Mystery (Cranston/Head, editors)
15			"All are one in our common humanity." H. B. Blavatsky, interview in London, 1887 Reincarnation: The Phoenix Fire Mystery (Cranston/Head, editors)
16			"The resources of wisdom are hidden in the depths of the human being." Ira Progoff (b. 1921), American psychologist, 'The Symbolic and the Real' Reincarnation: The Phoenix Fire Mystery (Cranston/Head, editors)
17			"That which is 'essential' in the universe is eternal and indestructible; permanent through all the transitory appearances of things. That which is essential in the universe passes, by evolution, from the unconscious to the conscious. Individual consciousness is an integral part of that which is essential in the universe and itself indestructible and eternal, it evolves from unconsciousness to consciousness." Gustave Geley (1868-1924), French psychologist and physician, 'From the Unconscious to the Conscious' Reincarnation: The Phoenix Fire Mystery (Cranston/Head, editors)
18			"All life is one, and all its manifestations with which we have had contact are climbing the ladder of evolution." Lord Hugh Dowding (1882-1970), British Air Chief Marshal, speech delivered before the House of Lords, July 18, 1957 Reincarnation: The Phoenix Fire Mystery (Cranston/Head, editors)
19			"Behind the many guises of truth there is ONE truth." Martin James, 'Art News', 1957 Reincarnation: The Phoenix Fire Mystery (Cranston/Head, editors)
20			"The principles of the successive phases of Spirit are themselves only steps in the development of one universal Spirit." G. W. F. Hegel (1770-1831), German philosopher Reincarnation: The Phoenix Fire Mystery (Cranston/Head, editors)
21			"The whole infinity of discrete and independent souls is yet fused into a vast Whole…within the immensity of the World Soul." Dorothea Waley Singer, 'Giordano Bruno, His Life and Thought' Reincarnation: The Phoenix Fire Mystery (Cranston/Head, editors)
22			"Deity and the cosmos may be likened to a circle or sphere whose circumference is nowhere – hence boundless – but those center is everywhere. And each monad is such a divine, immortal, preexistent center." Editors Reincarnation: The Phoenix Fire Mystery (Cranston/Head, editors)
23			"Every movement that returns to its point of origin must adopt the form of a circle. Only circular movement is continuous and consistent. Every object of nature is, then, a circle, whose function and activity derive from its center point, which is the soul." Dr. Felix Marti-Ibanez, 'Centaur, Essays on the History of Medical Ideas' Reincarnation: The Phoenix Fire Mystery (Cranston/Head, editors)
24			"Leibniz held with Bruno that each monadic center – whether an atom, a man, or a sun – is a mirror and replica of the entire cosmos, as well as the moving power in evolution." Editors Reincarnation: The Phoenix Fire Mystery (Cranston/Head, editors)
25			"Cosmic law will help us to become all that we can possibly wish to be." Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904), Author, teacher, 'Exotics and Retrospectives' Reincarnation: The Phoenix Fire Mystery (Cranston/Head, editors)
26			"The divine perfection of the individual soul is the aim of all progression." Giordano Bruno (1548-1600), Italian philosopher and poet Reincarnation: The Phoenix Fire Mystery (Cranston/Head, editors)
27			"Whether they are Syrian, Greek, Egyptian or Hindu, the writers of the sacred books seem to me as men who had all gazed upon the same august vision and reported of the same divinity." George W. Russell (1867-1935), Irish author, 'The Candle of Vision' Reincarnation: The Phoenix Fire Mystery (Cranston/Head, editors)
28			"All our actions should originate from the spring of unselfish love." Heinrich Heine (1797-1856), German poet, 'Die Bader von Lucca', ch. 17 Reincarnation: The Phoenix Fire Mystery (Cranston/Head, editors)
29			"Our innermost being is more valuable than all titles and honors." Queen Elisabeth of Austria (1837-1898), Reincarnation: The Phoenix Fire Mystery (Cranston/Head, editors)
30			"The soul is an emanation of the Divinity, a part of the soul of the world." Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), American philosopher and essayist, Journals for 1830 Reincarnation: The Phoenix Fire Mystery (Cranston/Head, editors)
31			"There is a light which enlightens every one that comes into the world; there is a faculty in all to perceive spiritual truth when distinctly presented." George Ripley, founder of Brook Farm, a 19th century Transcendentalist commune, letter to friends Reincarnation: The Phoenix Fire Mystery (Cranston/Head, editors)
32			"Man is the dialogue between nature and God." J. W. von Goethe (1749-1832), German poet Reincarnation: The Phoenix Fire Mystery (Cranston/Head, editors)
33			"The soul has a principle of its own leading to the realm of Intelligence…joining it to that which IS, even to the divine nature." Iamblichus (ca. 250-330), Greek philosopher, 'The Egyptian Mysteries' Reincarnation: The Phoenix Fire Mystery (Cranston/Head, editors)
34			"As long as any one injures another, though he should possess the greatest wealth, and all the acres of land which the earth contains, he is still poor." Porphyry (233-304), Greek scholar and Neoplatonic philosopher, 'De Abstinentia' Reincarnation: The Phoenix Fire Mystery (Cranston/Head, editors)
35			"I am convinced that we live in eternity now." Gustaf Stromberg (1882-1962), Swedish-American astronomer and physicist, 'The Searchers' Reincarnation: The Phoenix Fire Mystery (Cranston/Head, editors)
36			"Of this I am sure…that we ARE here for a purpose. And that we go on. Mind and memory – they are the eternals." Henry Ford (1863-1947), American businessman, interview in the Hearst papers, April 27, 1938 Reincarnation: The Phoenix Fire Mystery (Cranston/Head, editors)
37			"Yes, a divine instinct that always grows in light and strength helps us to comprehend that nothing in the whole world wholly dies." George Sand (1803-1876), French author Reincarnation: The Phoenix Fire Mystery (Cranston/Head, editors)
38			"Know of a truth that only the Time-shadows have perished, or are perishable; that the real Being of whatever was, and whatever is, and whatever will be, IS even now and forever." Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), Scottish essayist and historian Reincarnation: The Phoenix Fire Mystery (Cranston/Head, editors)
39			"If you seek for man in his dead body, you are seeking for him in vain…The form may be destroyed: but the spirit remains and is living, for it is the subjective life." Paracelsus (1493-1541), Swiss physician and alchemist, 'The Life of Phillupus Theophrastus Bombast of Hohenheim' Reincarnation: The Phoenix Fire Mystery (Cranston/Head, editors)
40			"Our soul, partaking of the divine nature, remains immortal and eternal." George Gemistus (1355-1450), Byzantine philosopher Reincarnation: The Phoenix Fire Mystery (Cranston/Head, editors)
41			"The soul is not extinguished by its own proper death, but..it will be restored to the light of perennial life, and will return to its pristine integrity and perfection." Macrobius (4th – 5th century), Roman Neoplatonist, 'Commentary on the Dream of Scipio' Reincarnation: The Phoenix Fire Mystery (Cranston/Head, editors)
42			"All things are but altered, nothing dies." Ovid (43 bce – 17 ad), Roman Poet, 'Metamorphoses', Book 15 Reincarnation: The Phoenix Fire Mystery (Cranston/Head, editors)
43			"Deity is the One Universal SELF." Editors Reincarnation: The Phoenix Fire Mystery (Cranston/Head, editors)
44			"Within the soul is a spark of the Itongo, the Universal Spirit." Mankanyezi, Zulu Wise Man Reincarnation: The Phoenix Fire Mystery (Cranston/Head, editors)
45			"Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans never doubted that we had souls drafted from the universal Divine intelligence." Cicero (106-43 bce), Roman statesman and philosopher, 'On Old Age' Reincarnation: The Phoenix Fire Mystery (Cranston/Head, editors)
46			"The Stoics [ancient Greek philosophers] held man to be a microcosm who reproduces in his being the constitution of the universe." Editors Reincarnation: The Phoenix Fire Mystery (Cranston/Head, editors)
47			"The soul of man is immortal…is never destroyed." Plato, 'Meno' Reincarnation: The Phoenix Fire Mystery (Cranston/Head, editors)
48			"There is somewhat of the absolute and eternal in every human soul…something that transcends time and space and organic form, and makes eternity for the soul to be the continuous unfolding of a perpetual and indestructible principle of life." William J. Potter (1830-1893), Unitarian minister, article in 'The Radical', April 1868 Reincarnation: The Phoenix Fire Mystery (Cranston/Head, editors)
49			"I am conscious of Eternal Generation, that I am what never lay in the cradle and no coffin can hold, but sits behind smiling at what was brought forth..." Cyrus A. Bartol (1813-1900), Unitarian minister, 'The Rising Faith' Reincarnation: The Phoenix Fire Mystery (Cranston/Head, editors)
50			"All Spirits were created blameless, all must at last return to their original perfection." Rev. William R. Inge, dean of St. Paul's Cathedral, London, Gifford Lectures Reincarnation: The Phoenix Fire Mystery (Cranston/Head, editors)