Many / One

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1		"We are one in our origin, one in the method of our evolution, one in our goal."

2		"Man remains forever free at the centre."

3		"Until man has found the real Self, his own unreality makes him subject to illusions."

4		"God is immanent in every atom, all-pervading, all-sustaining, all-evolving; He is its source and its end, its cause and its object, its centre and circumference; it is built on Him as its sure foundation, it breathes in Him as its encircling space; He is in everything and everything in Him."

5		"One nourishes many sides, thus All is One." The Zohar, Isaac Myer's translation

6		"It is infolded Deity that is the guarantee of humanity's final triumph; this is the hidden motive power that makes evolution at once possible and inevitable, the upward-lifting force that slowly overcomes every obstacle and every difficulty."

7		"The human soul is the image of the Universal Mind."

8		"The Self is a living beam of the one Light and Life of the universe."

9		"A survey of the great religions of the world shows that they hold in common many religious, ethical, and philosophical ideas." Annie Besant, 'The Ancient Wisdom', Theosophical Publishing House 1983, p. 2

10		"Nothing is real but the one Life that we seek for and love unconsciously under its many veils."

11		"Nothing can exist in which the Deity is not immanent…the Soul is present in the divine Idea."

12		"Man is a dignified, immortal being, evolving towards a divinely glorious end."

13		"Life is one, it streams out perpetually as the free outpouring of the love of the Logos."

14		"Strength and calm and wisdom come to those who behold with opened eyes the glory of the Good Law."

15		"The one who is wise by love rises above all petty differences, and sees all drawing their life from the one source, all as part of his family."

16		"Symbolically, in the infinite ocean of light, with centre everywhere and with circumference nowhere, there arises a full-orbed sphere of living light, a Logos, and the surface of the sphere is His will to limit Himself that He may become manifest, His veil in which He incloses Himself that within it a universe may take form."

17		"The Founders of the great religions are members of the one Brotherhood."

18		"The consciousness of this inner unity, the recognition of the One Self dwelling equally in all, is the one sure foundation of Brotherhood."

19		"Pure love brought the universe into being, pure love maintains it, pure love draws it upwards towards perfection, towards bliss."

20		"The life of the Logos abiding in each form is its central, controlling, and directing energy."

21		"All things live in rhythmical vibrations, all seek the harmonious and are repelled by dissonance."

22		"This Self is the One, and hence is spoken of as the Monad, and this Monad is the outbreathed life of the Logos, containing within itself germinally, or in a state of latency, all the divine powers and attributes."

23		"Light everywhere meets with light; since everything contains all things in itself and again sees all things in another. So that all things are everywhere and all is all. Each thing likewise is everything." Plotinus, quoted in G. R. S. Mead's introduction to Taylor's 'Plotinus'

24		"To those who are good to me I am good; and to those who are not good to me I am also good; and thus all get to be good." Tao The Ching

25		"As a magnet has its magnetic field, an area within which all its forces play, larger or smaller according to its strength, so has every man a field of influence within which play the forces he emits, and these forces work in curves that return to their forthsender, that re-enter the centre whence they emerged."