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UNIVERSAL TRUTH
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"Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are engines of change, windows on the world, 'lighthouses' (as a poet said) 'erected in the sea of time.' They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print." 'Authors League Bulletin', November-December 1979
The Great Thoughts
(George Seldes, compiler)
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"The great truths that must flood the mind of humanity with light are the limitless perfection of God and the perfectibility of humanity."
My Way of Life, The Summa Simplified for Everyone
(Walter Farrell and Martin J. Healy)
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"To the extent that all mystical or peak experiences are the same in their essence and have always been the same, all religions are the same in their essence and always have been the same."
Religions, Values, and Peak-Experiences
(Abraham Maslow)
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"A desire for the consolations of a spiritual life transcends institutional, historical, and dogmatic structures, and belongs to human nature itself."
Omens of Millennium
(Harold Bloom)
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"The sacred traditions affirm that each human being is made in the image and likeness of God. Each has a 'Divine Spark', or Kernel of the Ultimate Reality, around which is gathered and organized form and force, matter and energy."
Divine Light and Fire, Experiencing Esoteric Christianity
(Peter Roche deCoppens)
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"There have always been teachers and groups that have managed to reach states of higher consciousness and have passed their knowledge on to the present."
Inner Christianity, A Guide to the Esoteric Tradition
(Richard Smoley)
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"Though there is only ONE truth it speaks in many tongues."
Collected Works
(Carl Jung)
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"The perennial philosophy repeatedly declares that the realization of our essential oneness is not reserved for a select few. Because the Self is common to everyone, we all have the potential to be aware of our real inner natures."
The Global Brain, Speculations on the Evolutionary Leap to Planetary Consciousness
(Peter Russell)
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"These interior transcendental journeys – portrayed in brilliant manner by such exemplars as Saint John of the Cross, Ramanuja, Saint Teresa, Shinran, Saint Hildegard – disclosed depths of the soul, and heights of reality, that altered the very nature of consciousness at large, and left the world profoundly altered in its very structure."
Integral Psychology: Consciousness, Spirit, Psychology, Therapy
(Ken Wilber)
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"'That Which Is', says St. Augustine; 'The One', 'The Supplier of true Life', says Plotinus; 'the energitic Word', says St. Bernard; 'Eternal Light', says Dante; 'the Abyss', says Ruysbroeck; 'Pure Love', says St. Catherine of Genoa – poor symbols of Perfection at the best. But, through and by these oblique utterances, they give us the assurance that the Object of their discovery is one with the object of our quest."
Mysticism
(Evelyn Underhill)
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"The old differences separating one [religious] system from another now are becoming less and less important, less and less easy to define. And what, on the contrary, is becoming more and more important is that we should learn to see THROUGH all the differences to the common themes that have been there all the while, that came into being with the first emergence of ancestral man from the animal levels of existence, and are with us still."
Myths To Live By
(Joseph Campbell)
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"As philosophy professor Renee Weber recognizes, there is a single tradition, one universal core of knowledge underlying its many expressions, which are 'bound by a common intentionality, an integral vision of man and world.'"
Ancient Wisdom, Modern Insight
(Shirley Nicholson)
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"To the exponents of the Perennial Philosophy,….the important thing is that individual men and women should come to the unitive knowledge of the divine Ground."
The Perennial Philosophy
(Aldous Huxley)
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"An important point to note about the perennial philosophy is that it is not a philosophy in the Western sense, for it is not an ideology or belief system. Rather, it is based on the experiences of those who have tasted such states. It is not so much a set of ideas to be thought about or debated as an invitation to turn within and discover these truths for oneself."
The Global Brain, Speculations on the Evolutionary Leap to Planetary Consciousness
(Peter Russell)
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"There have been…individuals who have stumbled across an evolutionary threshold into what they see as the true evolutionary goal of the species. These pioneers have returned from their expeditions with maps and routes to the natural state of man and have shown where we originally came from, who we are and where we are heading."
Unknown Man
(Yatri)
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"Who can study carefully the ancient religious and cosmogonic myths without perceiving that this striking similitude of conceptions, in their esoteric spirit, is the result of no mere coincidence, but manifests a concurrent design? It shows that already in those ages which are shut out from our sight by the impenetrable mist of tradition, human religious thought developed in uniform sympathy in every portion of the globe."
Isis Unveiled
(Helena P. Blavatsky)
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"More and more, as we study and collate all the available evidence, this fact – this law – is borne in on us: that the general movement of human consciousness, when it obeys its innate tendency to transcendence, is always the same. There is only one road from Appearance to Reality."
Mysticism
(Evelyn Underhill)
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"God and man are one and indivisible throughout all eternity. This is the one supreme truth taught in all Mystery Schools and in all religions."
Basic Theosophy
(Geoffrey Hodson)
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"Examine the teachings of all the great sages and seers who have appeared. You will find them essentially one, although expressed in different languages, expressed in different forms and formulations of thought appropriate to the respective ages in which each of the messengers appeared. Although clad in various garments, clothed in differing habiliments, the body of truth that they taught and teach is one."
Wind of the Spirit
(G. dePurucker)
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"To societies rooted in the Sacred, that is, in the ideals by which the greatest majority of humankind live and have lived over the greatest majority of the life of the human family, the created order is sacred." Keith Critchlow, 'What Is Sacred in Architecture?",
Homage to Pythagoras, Rediscovering Sacred Science
(Christopher Bamford, editor)
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"Collective or perennial wisdom is the foundation stone of all religious and spiritual traditions, through which it expresses itself in the form of universal truths."
The Alternative Gospel
(John Baldock)
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"Fortunately, we have proof that the spirit always renews its strength in the fact that the essential teaching of the initiations is handed on from generation to generation. Ever and again there are human beings who understand what it means that God is their father. The equal balance of the flesh and the spirit is not lost to the world." Carl G. Jung (1875-1961), 'Freud and Psychoanalysis'
The Choice Is Always Ours
(Dorothy B. Phillips, Chief Editor)
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"The fundamental principles at the heart of all religions (like those at the core of all cultures and nations) are universal."
Oneness: Great Principles Shared By All Religions
(Jeffrey Moses)
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"Not a nation, not a people, nor the most abject tribe, but after their own fashion has believed in an Unseen God, the First cause of unerring and immutable laws, and in the immortality of our spirit. No creed, no false philosophy, no religious exaggerations, could ever destroy that feeling. It must, therefore, be based upon an absolute truth."
Isis Unveiled
(Helena P. Blavatsky)
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"In the heart and roots of each religion, one can find God, the Source and Essence of all, acting by various means but with the same fundamental purpose – to bring about the incarnation, evolution, actualization, and redemption of human beings in this earthly life."
Divine Light and Fire, Experiencing Esoteric Christianity
(Peter Roche deCoppens)
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