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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“Xenophanes declared that God ‘is all things’.”
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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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"Alchemy teaches that God is in everything; that He is One Universal Spirit, manifesting through an infinity of forms."
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"One of the great Alchemical axioms is, 'Within everything is the seed of everything.'"
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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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"The archetypes are abstract patterns formulated in the Divine Mind."
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"The trend of man's evolutionary growth is ever toward his own essential Selfhood."
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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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"In the theology of the Egyptians, goodness takes precedence and all things partake of its nature. Goodness is sought by all. It is the Prime Cause of causes. Goodness is self-diffused and hence exists in all things."
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"This little earth is bathed as of old in the sunlight of its Providential Generator….God continues to love and guide the destinies of His creation."
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"The universe is made up of successive gradations of good."
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"Pythagoras taught that both man and the universe were made in the image of God."
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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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"While physically bound to earth (of which his blood and bones are part), there is nevertheless within man a spiritual power, a diviner Self, through which he is one with the symphony of the Whole."
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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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"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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"The God of Pythagoras was the Monad, or the One that is Everything. He described God as the Supreme Mind distributed throughout all parts of the universe – the Cause of all things, the Intelligence of all things, and the Power within all things."
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“Zeno of Elea asserted that there was but one God, who was an eternal, ungenerated Being.”
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"God is in all. Therefore, all are divinely in the Divine."
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“According to Plato, the One is the term most suitable for defining the Absolute.”
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"Every existing creature manifests some aspect of the intelligence or power of the Eternal One."
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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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"Every visible object, every abstract thought, every emotional reaction is but the symbol of an eternal principle."
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"The sum of all things being the Good, it is natural that all things should partake of the Good and be arranged in combinations that are harmonious. Harmony is the manifesting expression of the Will of the eternal Good."
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