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Lamps of Western Mysticism
Arthur Edward Waite

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

2 "The years of spiritual life on earth are as certain moons following conception, during which the form of divine desire is developed within us; and in due season we shall issue forth to see with our own eyes that which all things now foreshadow, all faiths make evident."

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

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

5 "That One is the beginning and end of all."

6 "The first realisable truth concerning the soul of man is the native nobility of that which can dream of union with God, can also attain it,…and by the experience of such attainment discovers that in the soul itself…is God realised and known in the sacred nature of things."

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

8 "God is of infinite perfection, incomprehensible intelligence and supereminent unity."

9 "God is immanent in the soul, and we conceive Him also as abiding in the universe, or that cosmic order to which we belong and of which we form a part."

10 "Begin where one may in the universe, all roads lead ultimately to God."

11 "Let us think…of the oneness to which all our nature testifies."

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

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

14 "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."

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

16 "There is much to be gained by the study of mystic symbolism, in which we find everywhere a disguised humanity. It is a catholic [universal] illustration of the truth that there is but one vase and one matter."

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 human nature is a temple of the Divine Presence."

19 "The end of Western Mysticism was the return of the many into the One."

20 "Let us seek in love for the centre of Divine Love; let us strive to cast our whole being therein; let that love be behind all our intentions, our acts within and without."

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

22 "We are parts of a whole, and the whole must draw us as soon as we open our doors: this is grace working upon and within us."

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

24 "Under all outward illusion, and beneath all external phenomena, the Absolute is to be found within."

25 "We are dwelling already in that love which is wedded to its source in God."

This body of quotes compiled by JoAnn Kite