Many / One

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1		"All things have their life and being from the wisdom of God…for according to the wisdom of God, which is the life of all things, was made all that was made…and this [wisdom] is that archetypal world, after whose likeness this sensible world was made." Hugh of St. Victor

2		"The human psyche, like God, can intervene creatively in the physical and chemical processes of nature."

3		"According to Wisdom 7:23f., Wisdom is a 'vapour of the power of God and a certain pure emanation of the glory of almighty God…the brightness of eternal light, and the unspotted mirror of God's majesty, and the image of his goodness.'"

4		"The temple of God is holy, and it is within you." Honorius of Autun, 'Speculum'

5		"The meaning is clear: the neophyte, reborn, becomes God." Apuleius, 'The Golden Ass'

6		"The soul knows the First Being and itself in its essence by its own reflection upon itself." Avicenna, 'De anima'

7		"In the self the one is also the many, and the many are all comprised in the one."

8		"The anima mundi [soul of the world] is the Holy Spirit, for through God's goodness and will, which is the Holy Spirit, lives everything that exists in the world." Honorius of Autun

9		"Spirit, soul, and body are one, and all is of One." Zadith Senior (Zadith ben Hamuel), 'De chemia'

10		"In unity, in a point, and a centre, which are the three principles of number, measure and weight, are all things created…and in God they are all things;…for in the centre He sustains all, in the point fulfils all, and in unity perfects all." 'Theatrum Chemicum' (1622),

11		"Alchemical symbols have the function of uniting the opposites."

12		“The Holy Spirit warms all things with the fire of love.”

13		"Each individual becomes the vessel for an incarnation of God."

14		"Western alchemy's chief concern was the production of the One: 'one is the stone, one the vessel, one the procedure, and one the medicine."

15		"The earth is identical with the sublime figure of Wisdom….On closer examination this is really a tremendous thought. The 'Wisdom of God' in the Bible was the playmate of Yahweh, who was with him before the beginning of the world. In patristic literature she was defined as the 'archetypal world' or as the sum of eternal ideas in the mind of God, the prototypes from which he created all things."

16		"According to the medieval view the divine likeness reaches down even into the physical structure of natural things."

17		"Matter is one, soul is one, and God is one." 'Corpus Hermeticum'

18		“The Brethren of the Free Spirit taught that the human soul was of the substance of God.”

19		"God is the dynamic energy in all things, and everything is full of psyche and moves in perfect order."

20		"There is One thing, that never dies, for it continues by perpetual increase."

21		“Solomon says: The Spirit of the Lord has filled the whole world.”

22		"The individual human being is the maturing-ground and birthplace of a divine inner man."

23		“The Holy Spirit is the bond of eternity and equality.”

24		"The feminine aspect of the God-image, as an archetype, is in fact form without limitation, eternal and yet manifest and repeatable in an infinite number of individuals."

25		"Knowledge of God occurs when the soul reflects on itself."