Many / One

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1		"His [Christ's] work was to transfer the possibility of attainment from the few to the many, to simplify the great Truths for the use of all humanity and to introduce the ultimate act of attainment, the awakening of the Love principle in the heart."

2		"When universal love, neighbourliness and brotherhood eventually spread across the world, East and West will learn from each other and pool their attributes."

3		"The flame of regeneration and renaissance is burning high already, and many are the little sparks, fanned by patient souls, ready now to flare into a rich fulfillment."

4		"The cry for world-unity, peace, brotherhood and the casting down of barriers is increasingly making itself heard."

5		"All of life is built upon the law of opposites, as in the negative and positive poles of electricity, day and night, heat and cold, summer and winter, good and evil. The constant friction between these opposites causes development, change, adjustment – in other words originality, or the free-will which functions throughout all creation, and through which creation itself learns eventually to become creative."

6		"Fear is something of our making, and it paralyses us and renders us stupid."

7		"The Creative Force within us is one single force."

8		"Everything is…intimately connected with everything else."

9		"Divine force embraces all and flows uninterruptedly through everything."

10		"Man is said to contain within himself a facsimile of and a link with everything in the universe."

11		"Everything in life is evolving upwards and onwards to a higher and more perfect state, having had its beginning in an uncreative, unconscious and elementary form, and growing and progressing through striving, sacrifice and struggle to a condition of creative selfconscious potent strength."

12		"Believe in the One great Divinity."

13		"The world is built up of thousands of differing rates of vibrations, all these having their origin in the One original vibration of the mind of the Creator."

14		"Service leads to working with others, the beginning of that Universal Brotherhood which is inevitably and actually coming into being before our eyes."

15		"The Wisdom Teaching, down the ages, has come forth from God and thrown the needed light upon the ways of men. It has taken the form outwardly of the world religions, but has always presented to those whose eyes were open those esoteric truths and those clear instructions whereby man can find his own soul and his way back to the centre of life."

16		"'Man, Know Thyself' was the ancient command written above the temple door. If we persevere with this fascinating study we will find that in the form of every human being the universe is presented to us."

17		"Enlightenment has ever poured fourth over humanity from the heart of God."

18		"When the aspirant can grow to love his neighbours for their struggles and faults, and utterly abstain from any critical feeling, then 'will all things be added unto him.' There will be no barriers to prevent it. Like attracts like, and his own honesty and charity will inevitably draw to him as to a magnet all that is good."

19		"'Love thy neighbour as thyself' – so simple and so clear! And quite enough to change this tortured earth to a lovely place."

20		"Everyone should breathe in the divine Breath of Life with all his heart and sing his song of thanksgiving no less regularly than do the birds."

21		"Mankind, as well as all of Nature, is to rise out of the imperfect state, to become complete and creative, and to develop the full quota of qualities and capacities."

22		"The greatest things we can have – wisdom, health and power – are all-pervading and cannot be divided. They can only develop and be shared."

23		"He whose aspirations are high, sincere and enduring may begin at once to achieve Godhood and acquire first-hand knowledge of the secrets of the universe."

24		"Meditation has been used throughout the ages as the means by which a person can link his brain, mind and soul together, and connect them consciously with the Universal Intelligence."

25		"God is within us. We are each able to contact the world of spirit within our own little bodies, because in the final analysis it is the life of that world which is interpenetrating and sustaining us."