Many / One

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

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

3		"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."

4		"In the self all opposites – conscious and unconscious, psyche and physis, and so on – unite."

5		"Know, therefore,….that from that One the whole of creation proceeded." Pythagoras, 'Turba Philosophorum' (medieval Arabic text)

6		"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."

7		“God manifests in everything. He is present in everything and is the visible and the invisible.”

8		"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

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

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

11		"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."

12		"The alchemists regarded the mystery of creation as divine."

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

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

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

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

17		"A real continuation of God's creative power runs through the human soul."

18		“What first sets the will and intellect in motion is something higher than the will and intellect, i.e., God.”

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

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

21		"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),

22		"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.'"

23		"The art, or wisdom, or Word of almighty God is the form of all creatures. For it is at the same time both the exemplar and the efficient and formal cause preserving things in the form given them, until created things are directed and recalled to it." Robert deGrosseteste, 'De unica forma omnium'

24		"In all things that operate God is the cause of their operating." Thomas Aquinas, 'Summa contra Gentiles', III, 66

25		"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