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1		"Know of a truth that only the Time-shadows have perished, or are perishable; that the real Being of whatever was, and whatever is, and whatever will be, IS even now and forever." Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), Scottish essayist and historian

2		"Enlightenment is not a mere personal affair which does not concern the community at large; its background is laid in the universe itself." D. T. Suzuki, Theosophy magazine, December, 1970

3		"Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans never doubted that we had souls drafted from the universal Divine intelligence." Cicero (106-43 bce), Roman statesman and philosopher, 'On Old Age'

4		"The effects produced by our actions eventually teach us how to bring harmony into our lives."

5		"All are one in our common humanity." H. B. Blavatsky, interview in London, 1887

6		"I am convinced that we live in eternity now." Gustaf Stromberg (1882-1962), Swedish-American astronomer and physicist, 'The Searchers'

7		"Everything goes, everything returns; eternally rolls the wheel of existence. Everything dies, everything blossoms forth again; eternally runs on the year of existence." Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), German philosopher, 'Thus Spake Zarathustra'

8		"The virtues we acquire, which develop slowly within us, are the invisible links that bind each one of our existences to the others." Honore de Balzac, 'Seraphita'

9		"Let us face it: 'deep down' nobody in his right mind can visualize his own existence without assuming that he has always lived and will live hereafter; and the religious world-views of old endowed this psychological feeling with images and ideas which could be shared, transmitted, and ritualized." Erik H. Erikson (b. 1902), 'Gandhi's Truth'

10		"There may indeed be a 'mythopoeic mentality,' but it is not restricted to precivilized man, but is to be found in geniuses as different as Boehme, Kepler, Blake, Yeats, Wagner, Heisenberg…Myth is not an early level of human development, but an imaginative description of reality in which the known is related to the unknown through a system of correspondences in which mind and matter, self, society, and cosmos are integrally expressed in an esoteric language of poetry and number." William Irwin Thompson, 'At The Edge of History'

11		"By birth and growth the spirit-architect expands into this mass of which we consist, spreading outwards from the heart. Thither again it withdraws, winding up the threads of its web, returning by the same path along which it advanced, passed out by the same gate through which it entered. Birth is expansion of the center….death contraction to the center. It is the soul that gathers about it, groups and vivifies the atom-mass." Giordano Bruno (1548-1600), Italian philosopher and poet, quoted in J. Lewis McIntyre's 'Giordano Bruno', Macmillan, 1903

12		"Having flung aside the sword, there is nothing except the cup of love which I can offer to those who oppose me." Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948), Apostle of non-violence, letter to Madeleine Salde, a British admiral's daughter

13		"The principles of the successive phases of Spirit are themselves only steps in the development of one universal Spirit." G. W. F. Hegel (1770-1831), German philosopher

14		"Of this I am sure…that we ARE here for a purpose. And that we go on. Mind and memory – they are the eternals." Henry Ford (1863-1947), American businessman, interview in the Hearst papers, April 27, 1938

15		"Only through awakening to the oneness of one's true Self with the Eternal, does liberation come." Sankaracharya, 'The Crest Jewel of Wisdom'

16		"Deity and the cosmos may be likened to a circle or sphere whose circumference is nowhere – hence boundless – but those center is everywhere. And each monad is such a divine, immortal, preexistent center." Editors

17		"The soul is ever immortal, and is a portion of the divinity that inhabits our bodies." Flavius Josephus (1st century Jewish historian), 'The Jewish War'

18		"For those who have found the still point of eternity, around which all, including themselves – revolves, everything is acceptable as it is; indeed, can even be experienced as glorious and wonderful." Joseph Campbell, 'Oriental Mythology'

19		"I am conscious of Eternal Generation, that I am what never lay in the cradle and no coffin can hold, but sits behind smiling at what was brought forth..." Cyrus A. Bartol (1813-1900), Unitarian minister, 'The Rising Faith'

20		"Our Essence of Mind (literally, self-nature) which is the seed or kernel of enlightenment is pure by nature." Hui Neng (6th Zen patriarch, 6th century ad)

21		"The soul has a principle of its own leading to the realm of Intelligence…joining it to that which IS, even to the divine nature." Iamblichus (ca. 250-330), Greek philosopher, 'The Egyptian Mysteries'

22		"The divine perfection of the individual soul is the aim of all progression." Giordano Bruno (1548-1600), Italian philosopher and poet

23		"Whether they are Syrian, Greek, Egyptian or Hindu, the writers of the sacred books seem to me as men who had all gazed upon the same august vision and reported of the same divinity." George W. Russell (1867-1935), Irish author, 'The Candle of Vision'

24		"The whole infinity of discrete and independent souls is yet fused into a vast Whole…within the immensity of the World Soul." Dorothea Waley Singer, 'Giordano Bruno, His Life and Thought'

25		"I know for a fact that there is life after death." Dr. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, interview in People magazine, November 24, 1975