Many / One

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1		"Bitterness is produced merely by the misunderstanding with which men approach Wisdom; if they surrendered to her, the bitterness of the struggle would no longer prevail, but only the 'sweetness' of pure love."

2		"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."

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

4		"All things have their life and being from the wisdom of God…for according to the wisdom of God, which is the life of all things, was made all that was made…and this [wisdom] is that archetypal world, after whose likeness this sensible world was made." Hugh of St. Victor

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

6		“According to St. Thomas Aquinas there is an intellectual light innate in man, which by ‘participated likeness’ is capable of knowing the first principles.”

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

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

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

10		"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."

11		"Each individual becomes the vessel for an incarnation of God."

12		“All things are of one.” Senior, ‘De chemia’

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

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

15		“The Holy Spirit manifests liberty, for he is love.” Christopher Ulrich Hahn, ‘Geschichte der Ketzer im Mittelalter’

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

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

18		"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."

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

20		"The art, or wisdom, or Word of almighty God is the form of all creatures. For it is at the same time both the exemplar and the efficient and formal cause preserving things in the form given them, until created things are directed and recalled to it." Robert deGrosseteste, 'De unica forma omnium'

21		“The world-soul is a natural force which is responsible for all the phenomena of life and the psyche.” Guillaume de Conches (1080-1154), Platonist who taught in Paris

22		"Western alchemy's chief concern was the production of the One: 'one is the stone, one the vessel, one the procedure, and one the medicine."

23		"The temple of God is holy, and it is within you." Honorius of Autun, 'Speculum'

24		"The anima mundi [soul of the world] is the Holy Spirit, for through God's goodness and will, which is the Holy Spirit, lives everything that exists in the world." Honorius of Autun

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