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Lamps of Western Mysticism
Arthur Edward Waite

1 "The sign of life is in the symbolism; the life itself is in the grace behind the symbolism."

2 "There is much to be gained by the study of mystic symbolism, in which we find everywhere a disguised humanity. It is a catholic [universal] illustration of the truth that there is but one vase and one matter."

3 "We are dwelling already in that love which is wedded to its source in God."

4 "'It is love which makes the world go round', says an old, familiar adage…the truth of all is behind it."

5 "God [is] All in all for all that lives and has its being in Him."

6 "If it be asked what is the test of knowledge concerning Divine Will, there is one answer only, namely, that it becomes known in love."

7 "Begin where one may in the universe, all roads lead ultimately to God."

8 "Let us think…of the oneness to which all our nature testifies."

9 "Everything that exists is the outward sign of an inward intent of God."

10 "The centre of grace is everywhere and the circumference nowhere."

11 "Knowledge is an inward state of our own essential being."

12 "The years of spiritual life on earth are as certain moons following conception, during which the form of divine desire is developed within us; and in due season we shall issue forth to see with our own eyes that which all things now foreshadow, all faiths make evident."

13 "Our true self is a mirror which contains all things."

14 "The love of goodness is the first experience of the natural man, and all spiritual advancement is an extension of the soul's journey through its great distance."

15 "He Who is everywhere, without change or shadow of vicissitude, is never absent."

16 "Nature is itself a mirror, wherein we behold ourselves."

17 "Consciousness in eternal love is the state in which God is All in all."

18 "Humanity ends where it began also, in the Divinity which is its home."

19 "God must be the Father of the soul before the soul can become, in a profound symbolical and mystical sense, the Mother of God."

20 "Goodwill abides at the centre. This centre... is everywhere, and is hence, in a certain sense, to be found in all."

21 "We are parts of a whole, and the whole must draw us as soon as we open our doors: this is grace working upon and within us."

22 "The Divine in man is not in separation from the Divine in the cosmos…it is one with one."

23 "God is immanent in the soul, and we conceive Him also as abiding in the universe, or that cosmic order to which we belong and of which we form a part."

24 "Under all outward illusion, and beneath all external phenomena, the Absolute is to be found within."

25 "We are mind, desire and will, corresponding to the Great Mind, the Great Purpose and the all-embracing Love."

This body of quotes compiled by JoAnn Kite