THE SECRET DOCTRINE
Helena P. Blavatsky
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"Brahma IS this universe itself."
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"There are no ancient symbols without a deep and philosophical meaning attached to them."
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"The operations of the two contraries produce harmony, like the centripetal and centrifugal forces, which are necessary to each other – mutually interdependent – in order that both should live."
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"The whole world has been pervaded by the energy of the deity." Vishnu Purana
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"The first principles in Hindu religious philosophy is 'Unity in diversity.'" Colonel Vans Kennedy
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"God (the Universal Spirit) objectivises himself as Nature, and again rises out of it." Hegel
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"The one Life is eternal, invisible, yet Omnipresent, without beginning or end."
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"The future, like the past, is ever alive in the present."
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"The 'Ideal Forms' are the archetypal or formative ideas…the eternal and subjective concepts of things subsisting in the divine mind prior to becoming."
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"The whole Cosmos must necessarily exist in the One Source of energy from which this light emanates."
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"Mankind, collectively and individually, is, with all manifested nature, the vehicle of the breath of the One Universal Principle."
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"There can only be….One eternal ever present Cause."
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"The only palliative to the evils of life is union and harmony – a Brotherhood in action, and altrusism not simply in name."
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"From one Soul, that of All, spring all the Souls, which spread themselves as if purposely distributed through the world." Stobaeus (ca. 5th century), Greek compiler of ancient fragments, 'Eclogae Physicae et Ethicae'
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"From the One Life formless and uncreate, proceeds the Universe of lives."
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"The radical unity of the ultimate essence of each constituent part of compounds in Nature – from Star to mineral to Atom, from the highest to the smallest, in the fullest acceptation of the term, and whether applied to the spiritual, intellectual, or physical worlds – this is the one fundamental law."
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"God is the Architect of the Universe."
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"Every one of the higher, as of the lower worlds, is interblended with our own objective world; millions of things and beings are, in point of localization, around us and IN us, as we are around, with, and in them; it is no metaphysical figure of speech, but a sober fact in Nature, however incomprehensible to our senses."
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"The unity and mutual relations of all parts of Kosmos were known to the ancients, before they became evident to modern astronomers and philosophers."
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"Brahma and the universe form one Being, each particle of which is in its essence Brahma himself, who proceeded out of himself."
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"Being is an endless cycle within the one absolute eternity, wherein move numberless inner cycles."
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"Nature implants in man as well as in every beast a passionate, inherent, and instinctive desire for freedom and self-guidance."
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"The one divine Principle, the nameless That of the Vedas, is the universal Total."
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"There is but One Universal Element, which is infinite, unborn, and undying, and all the rest – as in the world of phenomena – are but so many various differentiated aspects and transformations of that One, from cosmical down to microcosmical effects, from super-human to human and sub-human beings, the totality, in short, of objective existence."
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"All things and all living beings have originated from one common source."
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