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Lectures on Ancient Philosophy
Manly P. Hall

1 "The quest of the truly beautiful is identical with the quest of Self, for Self in its perfect and universalized sense – the all-pervading Consciousness – is the perfect source of all beauty."

2 "In addition to the properties of length, breadth, and thickness, every object has also a quality extension toward the nature of perfect Good."

3 "Unborn and undying, the Self is neither old nor young. Its condition never changes; for though all things pass away, it endures. It is wholeness."

4 “It is predestined that the Golden Age shall come again; that men shall live together in love and understanding, and the earth shall become once more a garden of surpassing beauty as it was in the beginning.”

5 “All is in All; All is All.” Rosicrucian saying

6 “As each age comes into manifestation it brings with it a definite philosophic revelation designed to solve the problems peculiar to that age.”

7 “Having ultimately attained through right thinking, right feeling, and right living to the condition of the beautiful within ourselves, with enraptured vision we can respond in perfect measure to the eternal beauty which flows from the inexhaustible fountain of the one Good.”

8 "The whole partakes of the attributes of the parts in fullness and perfect harmony. Hence the whole is the master of its parts, which are powerless to force their fragmentary agencies upon the structure of wholeness itself."

9 “Since the generated world is a collective whole, if we apply the ears of our intellect to the world we shall, perhaps, hear it thus addressing us: ‘There is no doubt but I was composed from all animals, entirely sufficient to myself, and destitute of nothing;…All things are contained in my ample bosom.” Plotinus, ‘On Providence’

10 “Good, possessing the virtue of unity, must ever increase until it includes everything within its own nature.”

11 "Man, gazing into the eyes of man, beholds therein his Maker. His Creator sings to him with the voice of the wilderness, and descends upon him from the stars that spangle the heavens by night."

12 “For this age we must have a doctrine of synthesis, a code actuated and dominated by the spirit of unification.”

13 “The law of the soul is love.”

14 “The establishment of the mind in wholes (unities) is essential to right thinking.”

15 "To know the nature of all things is to realize that all things are good."

16 "The Beautiful is an eternal flow; it is the One in motion."

17 "Slayer and savior alike are marching on through the ages toward inevitable perfection."

18 “Roundness partakes of the nature of wholeness because the circle or sphere (like wholeness) is without beginning or end. To think in round terms may be interpreted to mean keeping the mentality upon the level of greatest inclusiveness, ever striving to attain fuller inclusiveness.”

19 “He who becomes luminous shines not with a separate light but rather is merged with the one light whose radiance is diffused throughout all worlds.”

20 “When we adore the God of harmony, we shall know the inner mystery of life.”

21 “Humanity is the microcosm, or little universe – the miniature creation in whose composite nature are epitomized the varius orders of life.”

22 “The One Supreme Power manifesting throughout the cosmic organism should be considered as manifesting through all created things.”

23 “The sure and eternal path winds through the illusion and leads ultimately to the attainment of perfect good.”

24 "The glorious Universal Self is the One who is in all, the All which is in each."

25 “All things are one in essence.”

This body of quotes compiled by JoAnn Kite