Many / One

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1		"Everything around a person is calculated to assist him, if he only understands it."

2		"There is a Great One…who works for the good of the world."

3		"Even I myself am God, so all others, too, are God, and in truth there is nothing but God."

4		"According to occult (esoteric) philosophy, all of nature – including humanity – is evolving according to a grand design. The ancient Greeks held the idea of teleology, a purposed end that controls the course of events….Sir Alister Hardy and L. L. Whyte, among others, suggest that internal factors in organisms, that it – life itself – plays an important part in guiding evolution. Goal-directedness and purposiveness are obvious throughout the world of life." Shirley Nicholson, introduction

5		"All evolution came forth from the Divine, and we ourselves are sparks of the Divine flame."

6		"While the child Bacchus (the Logos) plays with his toys he is seized by the Titans and torn to pieces. Later these pieces are put together and built into a whole…..this, however clumsy it may seem to us, is an allegory which represents the descending of the One to become the many, and the re-union of the many in the One, through suffering and sacrifice."

7		"What we have hitherto supposed to be our consciousness, our intellect, is simply not ours at all, but God's; not even a reflection of God's but literally and truly a part of the Divine Consciousness."

8		"If we are actively helping in the progress of all, we are living in God's will, which penetrates nature, and this is felt by nature at once."

9		"God is within you, and God cannot fail."

10		"Every point is equally the center of a circle whose radius is infinite."

11		"The only way of casting off the fetter of doubt is by knowledge and intelligent comprehension."

12		"The will of the Logos is man's evolution. In our blindness we may for a time resist Him, but to Him time is naught, and if we cannot see today He waits patiently till tomorrow, but always in the end His will is done."

13		"The old saying is justified that ALL things, even the most unlikely-looking are in reality working together for good."

14		"We are all parts of the Logos, and our wills are part of his."

15		"The best way to see truly is to begin determinedly to look always for the good in every one."

16		"Any directive process….implies a reference to the future. The equifinality of developmental processes, the striving of the blastula to grow into an embryo, regardless of the obstacles and hazards to which it is exposed, might lead the unprejudiced observer to the conclusion that the pull of the future is as real and sometimes more important than the pressure of the past." Arthur Koestler, 'Nature', 1965

17		"The Will of the Logos is infinitely stronger than any human will, and not even the utmost exertion of perverse ingenuity can possibly prevail against Him."

18		"If we can see and grasp even a little of the glory, we can to some extent reflect it to others."

19		"The Supreme Self (is) in everything and everything in It….the Self is endeavoring to express itself through the form. One method of practice for this is to try to identify your consciousness with that of various creatures, such as a fly, an ant, or a tree. Try to see and feel things as they see and feel them, until as you pass inwards all consciousness of the tree or the insect falls away, and the life of the Logos appears."

20		"That consciousness, wide as the sea, with 'its centre everywhere and its circumference nowhere', is a great and glorious FACT."

21		"The universe is an inseparable web whose interconnections are dynamic." Shirley Nicholson, introduction

22		"The brotherhood of man is a fact in nature."

23		"The whole force of the universe is pressing upwards towards unity, and the person who is willing to make his life an intelligent cooperation with nature gains an ever-increasing perception of the reality of this unity."

24		"There is plenty of good in the world, and it is better to think of that, for your thought strengthens that of which you think."

25		"There is a consciousness wide enough to comprehend all, which never fails in its response to any earnest effort in the direction of an increased spirituality."