Many / One

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1		"There is one eternal Law in nature, one that always tends to adjust contraries and to produce final harmony."

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

3		"The 'Ideal Forms' are the archetypal or formative ideas…the eternal and subjective concepts of things subsisting in the divine mind prior to becoming."

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

5		"Brahma is in every atom of the universe."

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

7		"The radical unity of the ultimate essence of each constituent part of compounds in Nature – from Star to mineral to Atom, from the highest to the smallest, in the fullest acceptation of the term, and whether applied to the spiritual, intellectual, or physical worlds – this is the one fundamental law."

8		"That which is neither Spirit nor matter – that is It – the Causeless Cause of Spirit and Matter, which are the Cause of Kosmos. And That we call the One Life or the Intra-Cosmic Breath."

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

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

11		"A body may be considered divorced from its relations with other bodies…only conceptually. In fact, it can never be so detached: death itself being unable to detach it from its relation with the Univbersal forces, of which the one Force of Life is the synthesis."

12		"Every speck and atom are in harmony with their fellow atoms, and these with the whole."

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

14		"Every one of the higher, as of the lower worlds, is interblended with our own objective world; millions of things and beings are, in point of localization, around us and IN us, as we are around, with, and in them; it is no metaphysical figure of speech, but a sober fact in Nature, however incomprehensible to our senses."

15		"The future, like the past, is ever alive in the present."

16		"All things and all living beings have originated from one common source."

17		"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."

18		"Nature implants in man as well as in every beast a passionate, inherent, and instinctive desire for freedom and self-guidance."

19		"Mankind, collectively and individually, is, with all manifested nature, the vehicle of the breath of the One Universal Principle."

20		"Brahma IS this universe itself."

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

22		"There is but One Universal Element, which is infinite, unborn, and undying, and all the rest – as in the world of phenomena – are but so many various differentiated aspects and transformations of that One, from cosmical down to microcosmical effects, from super-human to human and sub-human beings, the totality, in short, of objective existence."

23		"Every one is a living mirror of the universe, every monad reflecting every other."

24		"The spirit of Nature is a unity, creating and forming everything." Johannes Tritheim, Abbot of Spanheim and Kabalist

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