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1		"The unity and mutual relations of all parts of Kosmos were known to the ancients, before they became evident to modern astronomers and philosophers."

2		"There is a harmony of numbers in all nature; in the force of gravity, in the planetary movements, in the laws of heat, light, electricity, and chemical affinity, in the forms of animals and plants, in the perception of the mind." 'Medical Review', July 1844

3		"That which ever is is one, that which ever was is one, that which is ever being and becoming is also one."

4		"The Circle is the Thought; the diameter (or the line) is the Word; and their union is Life."

5		"From the One Life formless and uncreate, proceeds the Universe of lives."

6		"Being is an endless cycle within the one absolute eternity, wherein move numberless inner cycles."

7		"From one Soul, that of All, spring all the Souls, which spread themselves as if purposely distributed through the world." Stobaeus (ca. 5th century), Greek compiler of ancient fragments, 'Eclogae Physicae et Ethicae'

8		"The opposite poles…are but aspects of the One Unity in which they are synthesized."

9		"Wise is he who holds to the golden mid-point, who believes in the eternal justice of things."

10		"God (the Universal Spirit) objectivises himself as Nature, and again rises out of it." Hegel

11		"As a spider throws out and retracts its web, as herbs spring up in the ground….so is the Universe derived from the undecaying One." Mandukya Upanishad

12		"That which in modern phraseology is referred to as Spirit and Matter, is ONE in eternity as the perpetual cause, and it is…all that is, was, or will be, all that the imagination of man is capable of conceiving."

13		"The manifested Universe reflects itself in each of its Monads, as Leibnitz put it."

14		"There can only be….One eternal ever present Cause."

15		"There is but one Absolute basis, from, on, and in which are built the countless basic centres on which proceed the Universal, cyclic, and individual Evolutions."

16		"The Law for the birth, growth, and decay of everything in Cosmos, from the sun to the glow-worm in the grass, is One."

17		"The first principles in Hindu religious philosophy is 'Unity in diversity.'" Colonel Vans Kennedy

18		"Every monad reflects every other. Every monad is a living mirror of the Universe within its own sphere."

19		"The whole world has been pervaded by the energy of the deity." Vishnu Purana

20		"In the manifold unity of universal life, the innumerable individualities distinguished by their variations, are, nevertheless, united in such a manner that the whole is one, and everything proceeds from Unity."

21		"All that lives and breathes evolves from the emanations of the One."

22		"From the remotest times the Universal Soul or 'anima mundi', the material reflection of the Immateral Ideal, was the Source of Life of all beings."

23		"The mighty One rules all things….and ordains the eternal laws that govern the world." Nordic Scrolls of Wisdom

24		"There are no ancient symbols without a deep and philosophical meaning attached to them."

25		"The One gives life to the whole Kosmos."