Many / One

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1		"Self-knowledge opens one up to the essential being of the world."

2		"Our real identity and cognitive range includes the entire cosmos and all its beings, and we must strive to be a fully conscious, independent investigator, co-creator, and cosmic colleague."

3		"The Logos connects everything in the interdependent web of being."

4		"The human, in the act of knowing, of attaining knowledge, actually participates in the creation of the world, contributing something indispensable to the wholeness of being. Cognition is world generative and, through the pure moral impulses it produces, it is equally world restorative."

5		"The natural world is permeated with creative Spirit expressing itself as ideas."

6		"The Christ incarnation had a momentous purpose, a divine teleology that encompasses the entire life of the cosmos."

7		"At the moment in which man realizes that he is embedded within the total organism of the earth…at that moment there exists an objective basis for morality." Rudolf Steiner

8		"Human, cosmos, and supersensible worlds are all interdependently linked and have unfolded together. In other words, the creation, elaboration, and progression of the solar system, humanity, and the hierarchies were synchronous events. In a sense, each is a different face in a different context of the same thing: the Logos."

9		"The unfoldment of the human and the cosmos are reciprocally interdependent and simultaneous events."

10		"Spiritual knowledge, if it's genuine, if it's transmitted correctly, will quicken a human's nature. Spiritual information should help humans find their bearings in life; it would kindle within a deeper love, more understanding. The results are actual life and not dead theory; they come alive in a person and lead one to the whole Anthropos, the complete human."

11		"We must willingly cooperate with the intentions of evolution and spiritual destiny. Our moral failure to develop spiritual cognition would render this future barren."

12		"The cosmos becomes aware of itself through an awakening humanity, recognizing its spiritual elements…Our cognition of the cosmic constituency of the human being is itself an act of cosmic self-awareness, in which the inherent self-reflexivity of the Logos becomes activated."

13		"The human is a living miniaturization of the cosmos."

14		"An imagination is the thought-matrix, the living picture from which physical reality manifests."

15		"Human and Cosmos are not only reciprocally related but, even though the apparent forms differ, [are] mirror images of each other."

16		"Sophia (Holy Wisdom) lies hidden in every atom and every stone, every tree and every flower. Her magic wand of revelation lies concealed within each of us." Rudolf Steiner

17		"Divine Wisdom lies at the foundation of everything."

18		"Christ Jesus is the representative, the embodiment of the power which imparts to mankind the full consciousness of the 'I am'." Rudolf Steiner, 'The Gospel of Matthew'

19		"By no other way than through cognitive free will could humans come to inner freedom and true individuality."

20		"The necessary enlivening of human thinking and the respiritualization of intelligence is a movement initiated from within the soul forces of each individual."

21		"The Creator…in pointing with the word, he shows himself, and is revealed. This is the primal revelation, creation itself." Georg Kuhlewind, 'Becoming Aware of the Logos'

22		"The world, the universe, is the spoken Word of the Logos."

23		"We think we have an individual being in front of us, but this individual is a picture, on a certain spot, of the whole world."

24		"The human being is the Logos made flesh, the Word incarnate. A revelation looms implicit in this syllogism."

25		"The Christ is the historical 'living force', always present, who exemplifies freedom of the heart and freely willed fraternity."