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Lamps of Western Mysticism
Arthur Edward Waite

1 "The only excellent way is that of love in its activity towards all in God and God in all."

2 "We are an immeasurable faculty of reception in the knowledge which comes from love."

3 "Consciousness in eternal love is the state in which God is All in all."

4 "We are mind, desire and will, corresponding to the Great Mind, the Great Purpose and the all-embracing Love."

5 "Every urge of our activity is a mode of love and every dedication has love as the root thereof."

6 "I think personally that God is All in all – yesterday, today and forever."

7 "Our human nature is a temple of the Divine Presence."

8 "Nature is itself a mirror, wherein we behold ourselves."

9 "Knowledge is an inward state of our own essential being."

10 "The driving power of the mind is love."

11 "There is no aspiration and no ambition to compare with the search after truth. The necessity of truth is as imperative as that of love, but indeed the distinction is idle because truth is love."

12 "If it be asked what is the test of knowledge concerning Divine Will, there is one answer only, namely, that it becomes known in love."

13 "It is love which cleanses and love alone that sanctifies."

14 "God is in the soul and the soul in God…a mutual and inseparable indwelling, ever renewed in love."

15 "The Divine in man is not in separation from the Divine in the cosmos…it is one with one."

16 "God must be the Father of the soul before the soul can become, in a profound symbolical and mystical sense, the Mother of God."

17 "The love of goodness is the first experience of the natural man, and all spiritual advancement is an extension of the soul's journey through its great distance."

18 "Our true self is a mirror which contains all things."

19 "He Who is everywhere, without change or shadow of vicissitude, is never absent."

20 "'It is love which makes the world go round', says an old, familiar adage…the truth of all is behind it."

21 "The centre of grace is everywhere and the circumference nowhere."

22 "Everything that exists is the outward sign of an inward intent of God."

23 "Goodwill abides at the centre. This centre... is everywhere, and is hence, in a certain sense, to be found in all."

24 "The Cosmic Christ…dwells within us. The realisation of His presence is by love."

25 "The grace behind Nature is Divine Immanence, and we know that it flows in through all channels; it stands at the door and knocks; it is with us all days."

This body of quotes compiled by JoAnn Kite