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1 "Within you is the whole universe. You are a microcosm of the macrocosm." Miraculous Living (Rabbi Shoni Labowitz)

2 "Nothing can exist in which the Deity is not immanent…the Soul is present in the divine Idea." The Ancient Wisdom (Annie Besant)

3 “From the beginning of human history man has been a religious being, aspiring to discover and consciously reunite with his Source, the Essence of all that is.” Divine Light and Fire, Experiencing Esoteric Christianity (Peter Roche deCoppens)

4 "Our brains seem to serve both as gates into God and holographic reducing valves that render God-stuff into structure and form." A Mythic Life, Learning to Live our Greater Story (Jean Houston)

5 "I have stood up for the saints, the seers, the prophets that I think have brought humanity to whatever nobility it has achieved. There's still a lot of that nobility around in our world, and it needs to be protected." The Way Things Are (Huston Smith, edited by Phil Cousineau)

6 "The soul of the individual subject is the microcosm of the soul of the world." Mysticism (Evelyn Underhill)

7 "The service humanity is to render is that of producing unity, harmony, and beauty in nature, through blending into one functioning, related unity the soul in all forms." Esoteric Psychology II (Alice A. Bailey)

8 "How nobly man is constituted by nature, and how divine is the state to which he can come by grace." Meister Eckhart Wrestling with the Prophets, Essays on Creation Spirituality and Everyday Life (Matthew Fox)

9 "The collective unconscious behaves as if it were ONE and not as if it were split up into many individuals." C. G. Jung: Letters, 1906-1950 (Gerhard Adler and Aniela Jaffe, editors)

10 "Certainly, man has the Light of God within him." Rediscovering the Angels (Flower A. Newhouse)

11 "Indeed man may now be defined as the latest expression of the cosmic-earth process, as that being in whom the cosmic-earth-human-process becomes conscious of itself." The Search for the Beloved (Jean Houston)

12 "All are one in our common humanity." H. B. Blavatsky, interview in London, 1887 Reincarnation: The Phoenix Fire Mystery (Cranston/Head, editors)

13 "Man has the capacity to connect his mind with the highest unseen cosmic intelligence – the mind of Nature." The Finding of the Third Eye (Vera Stanley Alder)

14 "Man is the hand of God." Theologia Germanica, 14th century, The Soul Afire, Revelations of the Mystics (H. A. Reinhold, editor)

15 "Greece, Rome, Chaldea, Peru, Egypt and all live now in us. Their material triumphs have turned to dust, their old languages are dead, but the gain of character that was achieved by those ancient labors is ours now and forever." The Glorious Presence (Ernest E. Wood)

16 “In their divine essence all humans are equal.” Theosophy, A Modern Expression of the Wisdom of the Ages (Robert Ellwood)

17 "A creative person participates in the Creator's work. The creation of the world is an ongoing project, and part of the divinity of the human being – an idea cherished by Renaissance philosophers – is to add to that process." Dark Nights of the Soul, A Guide to Finding Your Way Through Life's Ordeals (Thomas Moore)

18 "The human body is His sitar. He draws the strings, and out of it comes the music of the inner universe." Kabir The Mystic Hours, A Daybook of Interspiritual Wisdom & Devotion (Wayne Teasdale)

19 "The nature of the soul is relationship." The Rays and The Initiations (Alice A. Bailey)

20 "The brotherhood of man is a fact in nature." The Inner Life (Charles W. Leadbeater)

21 "Human nature is in all ages and in all countries the same." Cardinal Newman, 'Idea of a University' (19th century) The Book of Catholic Quotations (John Chapin, Editor)

22 "The individual soul is nothing else in essence than universal soul." Hindu teaching Oneness: Great Principles Shared By All Religions (Jeffrey Moses)

23 "Man is a microcosm or little world, a reproduction in miniature of the macrocosm or greater world, meaning the universe and its indwelling Deity." Basic Theosophy (Geoffrey Hodson)

24 “The fact that all persons are eternal Pilgrims and expressions of the divine within justifies the importance for the equal treatment of all regardless of race, sex, or creed.” Theosophy, A Modern Expression of the Wisdom of the Ages (Robert Ellwood)

25 "The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility." Vaclav Havel, President of Czechoslovakia in his address to the U. S. congress The Fabric of the Future (M. J. Ryan, editor)

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