THE ANCIENT WISDOM
Annie Besant
An outline of Theosophical teachings
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"All are One and are knotted in One, nor are they separated one from another." The Zohar
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"Light everywhere meets with light; since everything contains all things in itself and again sees all things in another. So that all things are everywhere and all is all. Each thing likewise is everything." Plotinus, quoted in G. R. S. Mead's introduction to Taylor's 'Plotinus'
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"The life of the Logos abiding in each form is its central, controlling, and directing energy."
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"Life is one, it streams out perpetually as the free outpouring of the love of the Logos."
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"As a magnet has its magnetic field, an area within which all its forces play, larger or smaller according to its strength, so has every man a field of influence within which play the forces he emits, and these forces work in curves that return to their forthsender, that re-enter the centre whence they emerged."
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"Symbolically, in the infinite ocean of light, with centre everywhere and with circumference nowhere, there arises a full-orbed sphere of living light, a Logos, and the surface of the sphere is His will to limit Himself that He may become manifest, His veil in which He incloses Himself that within it a universe may take form."
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"To those who are good to me I am good; and to those who are not good to me I am also good; and thus all get to be good." Tao The Ching
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"The great doctors of the Catholic Church always posit the unfathomable Deity, incomprehensible, infinite, and therefore necessarily but One and partless."
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"We are one in our origin, one in the method of our evolution, one in our goal."
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"One nourishes many sides, thus All is One." The Zohar, Isaac Myer's translation
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"The one Breath of the whole universe, I know that mighty Spirit, the shining sun beyond the darkness….I know Him the unfading, the ancient, the Soul of all, omnipresent by His nature." Shvetash-vataropanishad, iii, 8, 21
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"Life is one; happy they who see its presence, and make themselves the channels of its living force."
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"The one Life takes on countless limitations, each right in its own place and time."
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"Man remains forever free at the centre."
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"God is immanent in every atom, all-pervading, all-sustaining, all-evolving; He is its source and its end, its cause and its object, its centre and circumference; it is built on Him as its sure foundation, it breathes in Him as its encircling space; He is in everything and everything in Him."
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"Strength and calm and wisdom come to those who behold with opened eyes the glory of the Good Law."
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"Pure love brought the universe into being, pure love maintains it, pure love draws it upwards towards perfection, towards bliss."
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"The consciousness of this inner unity, the recognition of the One Self dwelling equally in all, is the one sure foundation of Brotherhood."
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"The human soul is the image of the Universal Mind."
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"This Self is the One, and hence is spoken of as the Monad, and this Monad is the outbreathed life of the Logos, containing within itself germinally, or in a state of latency, all the divine powers and attributes."
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"All things live in rhythmical vibrations, all seek the harmonious and are repelled by dissonance."
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"The One is the perfect chord of Being, of infinite melodious concords, all turned to a single note, in which Life and Wisdom and Bliss are blended into one keynote of Existence."
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"The One Self is in all."
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"Those who learn the truth about their own nature become free."
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"A survey of the great religions of the world shows that they hold in common many religious, ethical, and philosophical ideas." Annie Besant, 'The Ancient Wisdom', Theosophical Publishing House 1983, p. 2
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