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The Secret Teachings of All Ages
Manly P. Hall
Huston Smith says that this classic is "a masterful summation of the esoteric teachings of the ages". And Edgar Mitchell, the Apollo astronaut, says "it will guide historians, philosophers, and lay seekers of esoteric wisdom for centuries."

1 "Every existing creature manifests some aspect of the intelligence or power of the Eternal One."

2 "The fiat of God is heard in the voice of the elements, and all things in Nature manifest through harmony, rhythm, order."

3 "All is in God and God is in all; all is in all and each is in each."

4 "This little earth is bathed as of old in the sunlight of its Providential Generator….God continues to love and guide the destinies of His creation."

5 "The God of Pythagoras was the Monad, or the One that is Everything. He described God as the Supreme Mind distributed throughout all parts of the universe – the Cause of all things, the Intelligence of all things, and the Power within all things."

6 "Pythagoras taught that both man and the universe were made in the image of God."

7 "Everything which exists has a spirit – the seed of Divinity within itself."

8 "This world is but the shadow of God….All that is in the invisible archetypal sphere is revealed in the sensible corporeal world by the light of Nature."

9 "The archetypes are abstract patterns formulated in the Divine Mind."

10 “Zeno of Elea asserted that there was but one God, who was an eternal, ungenerated Being.”

11 "The ancients believed that the theory of humanity's being made in the image of God was to be understood literally. They maintained that the universe was a great organism not unlike the human body, and that every phase and function of the Universal Body had a correspondence in humanity."

12 "In the theology of the Egyptians, goodness takes precedence and all things partake of its nature. Goodness is sought by all. It is the Prime Cause of causes. Goodness is self-diffused and hence exists in all things."

13 "Proclus says: 'Every property of divinity permeates all creation and gives itself to all creatures.'"

14 "The universe is made up of successive gradations of good."

15 "The invisible nature of man is as vast as his comprehension and as measureless as his thoughts. The fingers of his mind reach out and grasp the stars; his spirit mingles with the throbbing life of Cosmos itself."

16 "Man's nature – consisting of his physical organism, his emotional nature, and his mental faculties – reflects the light of his Divinity and bears witness of It in the physical world."

17 "Within the nature of man is reflected the entire universe in miniature."

18 "God is the 'within' and the 'without' of all things."

19 "Right thinking, right feeling, and right action – these are three gates through which the Christ power passes into the material world, there to labor in the erection of the Temple of Universal Brotherhood."

20 “Xenophanes declared that God ‘is all things’.”

21 “Through reason man is enabled to elevate himself above the illusionary world of the senses and find eternal repose in perfect union with the Divine Essence.”

22 "Within the divine, incorporeal, and eternal sphere are included all the lower manifestations of life – all that is, has been, or ever shall be. Within the Kosmic Intellect all things spiritual or material exist as archetypes, or divine thought-forms."

23 "The human body is the Little House made in the image of the Great Universal House. 'Know ye not', asked the Apostle Paul, 'that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?'"

24 "Alchemy teaches that God is in everything; that He is One Universal Spirit, manifesting through an infinity of forms."

25 “To the Gnostics, the Christ was the personification of the Divine Mind.”

This body of quotes compiled by JoAnn Kite