Many / One

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1		"The individual human being is the maturing-ground and birthplace of a divine inner man."

2		"Knowledge of God occurs when the soul reflects on itself."

3		“At the touch of Wisdom the human spirit flows and begins to follow its most natural desire, namely, for its own perfection and the knowledge of God.”

4		“The Brethren of the Free Spirit taught that the human soul was of the substance of God.”

5		“God manifests in everything. He is present in everything and is the visible and the invisible.”

6		"Matter is one, soul is one, and God is one." 'Corpus Hermeticum'

7		"The meaning is clear: the neophyte, reborn, becomes God." Apuleius, 'The Golden Ass'

8		"The human psyche, like God, can intervene creatively in the physical and chemical processes of nature."

9		"In all things that operate God is the cause of their operating." Thomas Aquinas, 'Summa contra Gentiles', III, 66

10		"The movement of loving is circular, and love is the real unitive force."

11		"In unity, in a point, and a centre, which are the three principles of number, measure and weight, are all things created…and in God they are all things;…for in the centre He sustains all, in the point fulfils all, and in unity perfects all." 'Theatrum Chemicum' (1622),

12		“The Holy Spirit warms all things with the fire of love.”

13		"A real continuation of God's creative power runs through the human soul."

14		"This earth itself is the risen Christ and the divine mystery - indeed, it is God himself."

15		"The earth is identical with the sublime figure of Wisdom….On closer examination this is really a tremendous thought. The 'Wisdom of God' in the Bible was the playmate of Yahweh, who was with him before the beginning of the world. In patristic literature she was defined as the 'archetypal world' or as the sum of eternal ideas in the mind of God, the prototypes from which he created all things."

16		"The feminine aspect of the God-image, as an archetype, is in fact form without limitation, eternal and yet manifest and repeatable in an infinite number of individuals."

17		"The soul knows the First Being and itself in its essence by its own reflection upon itself." Avicenna, 'De anima'

18		"In the self the one is also the many, and the many are all comprised in the one."

19		"According to the medieval view the divine likeness reaches down even into the physical structure of natural things."

20		"Know, therefore,….that from that One the whole of creation proceeded." Pythagoras, 'Turba Philosophorum' (medieval Arabic text)

21		"In the self all opposites – conscious and unconscious, psyche and physis, and so on – unite."

22		"The divine existence…is infinite, and is not limited to any genus of being, but possesses within itself the perfection of all being." Thomas Aquinas, 'Summa Theologica', I, q. 25, art. 3 resp

23		“What first sets the will and intellect in motion is something higher than the will and intellect, i.e., God.”

24		"After the self has been experienced as a divine centre within the psyche, this experience expands into a feeling of oneness with the whole cosmos."

25		“Solomon says: The Spirit of the Lord has filled the whole world.”