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Lectures on Ancient Philosophy
Manly P. Hall

1 “Humanity possesses the power to interpret the whole and can actually come to realize its kinship with all.”

2 “All things subsist in all things.”

3 “The sure and eternal path winds through the illusion and leads ultimately to the attainment of perfect good.”

4 “If learning does not teach us to love, we learn without understanding.”

5 "The new message is the gospel of identity. It is not an effort to unite lives in a common interest, but a recognition of the fact that all forms are but manifestations of one indivisible agent….Indissoluble unity is fundamental throughout the universe."

6 “Beauty is in the human soul, lifting us upward to ever nobler vistas of endeavor.”

7 “To Be is to be immortal, for that which has been can never utterly cease.”

8 "Wholeness is an archetypal quality – an attribute of Deity. Regardless of the nature of its expression, every activity, quality, or condition is essentially a wholeness. This wholeness is made manifest by a division within itself whereby its nature becomes a mass of innumerable fragments, each of the fractions partaking of the quality resident in the original wholeness, and manifesting it through the wholeness of its own fractional part."

9 "Unborn and undying, the Self is neither old nor young. Its condition never changes; for though all things pass away, it endures. It is wholeness."

10 "Man, gazing into the eyes of man, beholds therein his Maker. His Creator sings to him with the voice of the wilderness, and descends upon him from the stars that spangle the heavens by night."

11 “The soul naturally desires the adornment of wholeness.”

12 “Every substance, object, element, and agent in the universe is capable of instructing us in those phases of divine order which are involved in its own constitution.”

13 “All is in All; All is All.” Rosicrucian saying

14 "Slayer and savior alike are marching on through the ages toward inevitable perfection."

15 “All are embraced within the span of the eternal philosophic NOW.”

16 "The quest of the truly beautiful is identical with the quest of Self, for Self in its perfect and universalized sense – the all-pervading Consciousness – is the perfect source of all beauty."

17 "Man is as surely clothed in the garments of virtue as he is in the garments of the physical; they are vehicles of his expression no less real than are the members formed of bone, flesh, or sinew."

18 “Plato maintained that the One is All-Being.”

19 “All things are one in reality and in essence.”

20 “The law of the soul is love.”

21 "In addition to the properties of length, breadth, and thickness, every object has also a quality extension toward the nature of perfect Good."

22 “Every human soul is innately divine.”

23 “Humanity is the microcosm, or little universe – the miniature creation in whose composite nature are epitomized the varius orders of life.”

24 “Brotherhood extends to all corners of the earth, including all races and species without distinction.”

25 “Having ultimately attained through right thinking, right feeling, and right living to the condition of the beautiful within ourselves, with enraptured vision we can respond in perfect measure to the eternal beauty which flows from the inexhaustible fountain of the one Good.”

This body of quotes compiled by JoAnn Kite