THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES
Manly P. Hall
Huston Smith says that this classic is "a masterful summation of the esoteric teachings of the ages". And Edgar Mitchell, the Apollo astronaut, says "it will guide historians, philosophers, and lay seekers of esoteric wisdom for centuries."
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"It is seen that all forms are of one substance and all life of one force, and these are co-existent in the nature of the Supreme One."
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"Right thinking, right feeling, and right action – these are three gates through which the Christ power passes into the material world, there to labor in the erection of the Temple of Universal Brotherhood."
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“Xenophanes declared that God ‘is all things’.”
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“Through reason man is enabled to elevate himself above the illusionary world of the senses and find eternal repose in perfect union with the Divine Essence.”
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"This world is but the shadow of God….All that is in the invisible archetypal sphere is revealed in the sensible corporeal world by the light of Nature."
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"Man's nature – consisting of his physical organism, his emotional nature, and his mental faculties – reflects the light of his Divinity and bears witness of It in the physical world."
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"The universe is made up of successive gradations of good."
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"Within the nature of man is reflected the entire universe in miniature."
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"Alchemy teaches that God is in everything; that He is One Universal Spirit, manifesting through an infinity of forms."
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"Forms are the symbols of formless divine principles; symbolism is the language of Nature. With reverence the wise pierce the veil and with clear vision contemplate the reality."
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“According to Plato, the One is the term most suitable for defining the Absolute.”
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"Every visible object, every abstract thought, every emotional reaction is but the symbol of an eternal principle."
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"Everything which exists has a spirit – the seed of Divinity within itself."
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"The fiat of God is heard in the voice of the elements, and all things in Nature manifest through harmony, rhythm, order."
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"One of the great Alchemical axioms is, 'Within everything is the seed of everything.'"
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"Every existing creature manifests some aspect of the intelligence or power of the Eternal One."
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"Out of one in all is all."
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"The power to think true is the savior of humanity. The mythological and historical Redeemers of every age were all personifications of that power."
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"The ancients believed that the theory of humanity's being made in the image of God was to be understood literally. They maintained that the universe was a great organism not unlike the human body, and that every phase and function of the Universal Body had a correspondence in humanity."
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"The human body is the Little House made in the image of the Great Universal House. 'Know ye not', asked the Apostle Paul, 'that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?'"
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"Within the divine, incorporeal, and eternal sphere are included all the lower manifestations of life – all that is, has been, or ever shall be. Within the Kosmic Intellect all things spiritual or material exist as archetypes, or divine thought-forms."
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"All is in God and God is in all; all is in all and each is in each."
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"God is in all. Therefore, all are divinely in the Divine."
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“All are dependent upon the one fertilizing principle existing in the Supreme Mind.”
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"The archetypes are abstract patterns formulated in the Divine Mind."
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