BASIC THEOSOPHY
Geoffrey Hodson
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"All is interwoven, interlocked, and this interweaving is based upon a universal system of vibrational correspondences or mutual resonances."
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"It is the nature of love to change us into the likeness of that which we contemplate." A. E. (George W. Russell),
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"Spiritually man is one with God and the goal of life in terms of consciousness is fully to know, deeply to realise, and so physically to live in recollection of this truth."
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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."
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"This is the way of happiness and of the fulfilment of life: 'He that is greatest among you shall be your servant.' (Matthew 23:11)."
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"This is the true solution: self-knowledge."
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"The Lord Buddha said: 'To those who revile me, I will give the protection of my most ungrudging love. And the greater their hostility, the greater shall be the measure of my love.'"
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"Try to see this world and the personalities of men as vehicles for the Divine Presence and the Divine Life, remembering also: All are but parts of one stupendous whole."
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"The person who successfully probes his own inner nature and existence back to its Centre and Core, finds one single source of all men, all beings, all existence. Unity then emerges as the supreme verity, the everlasting truth."
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"The pain of bereavement and the fear of death say to us: 'Seek the inner consciousness and seek it ardently. For when found it will banish both fear of death and pain of bereavement.' In our inner selves and in our hearts, if we will let them speak, we know these things."
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"There is nowhere in which to be lost. God is omnipresent."
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"Ultimate and complete success is assured by virtue of the presence of an infinite, divine power, ceaselessly at work within the Soul of every man."
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"In very truth, recognition and ratification in conduct of the fact of the oneness of all life is the panacea."
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"Man can master circumstances and make of each experience an opportunity for a fresh beginning, however heavily the past may weigh upon him."
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"God IS all-powerful, all-loving and all-wise. There IS a Plan – Evolution – and despite human resistance that Plan is certain to succeed."
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"However terrible the sin and sorrow on earth may be, all things are somehow working together for the eventual good of all."
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"In happiness and suffering, in joy and in grief, we should regard all creatures as we regard our own self, and should therefore refrain from inflicting upon others such injury as would appear undesirable to us if inflicted upon ourselves." Yogashastra, 2:20 (Jain scripture)
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"The expansive pressure of the divine will is the Power behind the whole process of evolution."
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"Send out affection to all – flooding every living creature with the power of love."
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"That One Alone becomes manifest…as all the exuberant variety and richness of individuality everywhere apparent throughout Nature."
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"Man, in very truth, was created in the image of God. Eliphas Levi said: 'The mystery of the earthly and mortal man is after the mystery of the supernal and immortal One."
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"Wise was the injunction of the Mystery Schools of old, 'Man know thyself'; for when man truly knows himself, he knows all."
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"The Adept-to-be is in us now. 'Ye are Gods.' (John X:34). 'Christ in you.' (Col. I:27). 'Look within: thou ART Buddha'."
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"When we examine the sacred books of various religions and the original sayings of the world's greatest teachers, we are able to perceive a singular uniformity."
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"All things are located everywhere. Everything is all, and all is each thing; infinite splendour is radiated around. Everything is great, for even the small is great." Plotinus
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