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"The divine existence…is infinite, and is not limited to any genus of being, but possesses within itself the perfection of all being." Thomas Aquinas, 'Summa Theologica', I, q. 25, art. 3 resp |
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"This earth itself is the risen Christ and the divine mystery - indeed, it is God himself." |
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"God is the dynamic energy in all things, and everything is full of psyche and moves in perfect order." |
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"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." |
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“At the touch of Wisdom the human spirit flows and begins to follow its most natural desire, namely, for its own perfection and the knowledge of God.” |
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“The Holy Spirit manifests liberty, for he is love.” Christopher Ulrich Hahn, ‘Geschichte der Ketzer im Mittelalter’ |
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“The world-soul is a natural force which is responsible for all the phenomena of life and the psyche.” Guillaume de Conches (1080-1154), Platonist who taught in Paris |
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"The meaning is clear: the neophyte, reborn, becomes God." Apuleius, 'The Golden Ass' |
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“All things are of one.” Senior, ‘De chemia’ |
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“Solomon says: The Spirit of the Lord has filled the whole world.” |
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“According to St. Thomas Aquinas there is an intellectual light innate in man, which by ‘participated likeness’ is capable of knowing the first principles.” |
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"Each individual becomes the vessel for an incarnation of God." |
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"Spirit, soul, and body are one, and all is of One." Zadith Senior (Zadith ben Hamuel), 'De chemia' |
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"In the self all opposites – conscious and unconscious, psyche and physis, and so on – unite." |
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"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." |
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"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), |
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"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." |
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"In the self the one is also the many, and the many are all comprised in the one." |
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"According to the medieval view the divine likeness reaches down even into the physical structure of natural things." |
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“What first sets the will and intellect in motion is something higher than the will and intellect, i.e., God.” |
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“The Holy Spirit is the bond of eternity and equality.” |
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"After the self has been experienced as a divine centre within the psyche, this experience expands into a feeling of oneness with the whole cosmos." |
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"Alchemical symbols have the function of uniting the opposites." |
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"The soul knows the First Being and itself in its essence by its own reflection upon itself." Avicenna, 'De anima' |
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"The individual human being is the maturing-ground and birthplace of a divine inner man." |