Many / One
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"The psyche is the greatest of all cosmic wonders." 'On The Nature of the Psyche'
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"The conscious psyche is certainly of a personal nature, but it is by no means the whole of the psyche. The foundation of consciousness, the psyche per se, is unconscious, and its structure, like that of the body, is common to all."
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"You see them there side by side, in the same town, in the same street, in the same temple, within the same square mile: the most highly cultivated mind and the primitive. In the mental make-up of the most spiritual you discern the traits of the living primitive, and in the melancholy eyes of the illiterate villager you divine an unconscious knowledge of mysterious truths."
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“The ‘Tao Teh Ching (ch. 25) says of the Original Being: ‘There was something formless yet complete that existed before heaven and earth; without sound, without substance, dependent on nothing, unchanging, all pervading, unfailing. One may think of it as the mother of all things under heaven.’”
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"Each individual psychic fact is decisively influenced by its relation to the whole."
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"When all visible lights are extinguished, one finds, according to the words of the wise Yajnavalkya, the light of the self."
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"All the world is God's, and God is in all the world from the very beginning."
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“Caesarius of Heisterbach says that the soul has a ‘spherical nature.’”
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"In Hermetic philosophy the arcane substance has a 'thousand names', but essentially it consists of the One and Only (i.e., God)."
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"There is an incorruptible essence potentially present in every human being."
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"Morality..is a function of the human soul, as old as humanity itself. Morality is not imposed from outside; we have it in ourselves from the start."
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“For the alchemists the world was an image and symbol of God.”
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“According to Basilius Valentinus, the earth is inhabited by a spirit that is its life and soul. All created things, minerals included, draw their strength from the earth-spirit. This spirit is life…and it gives nourishment to all the living things it shelters in its womb.”
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“The elements are conjoined in the circle of true friendship.” Petrus Bonus
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"The urge and compulsion to self-realization is a law of nature and thus of invincible power."
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"There is only ONE earth and ONE mankind."
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"Our own psyche [is] constantly at work creating new spiritual forms and spiritual forces which may help us."
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"The tension of opposites that makes energy possible is a universal law, fittingly expressed in the yang and yin of Chinese philosophy."
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"The characteristic feature of…synchronistic occurrences is meaningful coincidence, and as such I have defined the synchronistic principle. This principle suggests that there is an inter-connection or unity of causally unrelated events, and thus postulates a unitary aspect of being which can very well be described as the 'unus mundus' [one world]."
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“However much its names may differ, yet it is ever one thing alone.” ‘Rosarium’, Art. Aurif., II
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"Myths are first and foremost psychic phenomena that reveal the nature of the soul."
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"The individuation process subordinates the many to the One. But the One is God, and that which corresponds to him in us is the 'imago Dei', the God-image."
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“There are fiery sparks of the World-Soul, that is of the light of nature, dispersed or scattered at God’s command in and through the fabric of the great world into all fruits of the elements everywhere.” Khunrath (1560-1605)
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"Empirically it can be established, with a sufficient degree of probability, that there is in the unconscious an archetype of wholeness which manifests itself spontaneously in dreams, etc., and a tendency, independent of the conscious will, to relate other archetypes to this centre."
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"That Jacob Boehme should obtain a glimpse into the center of nature by means of a sunbeam reflected in a tin platter is understandable."
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