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1		"In the inmost heart of our being knowledge is love and love knowledge, while our true will is the creative power which springs from their union and which makes them one in action." The Flame and the Light (Hugh I'anson Fausset)

2		"Ultimately everyone must remember the Will of God, because ultimately everyone must recognize himself." A Course in Miracles (Helen Schucman and William Thetford)

3		"If one accepts that all of nature, and everything in the universe, operates according to the will of God, and that nothing works contrary to his purposes, then one must also accept that the angels and daimones, heroes – all things in the universe – are subject to the will of the one God who rules over all." Origen, 'Contra Celsum' The Origin of Satan (Elaine Pagels)

4		"The soul directly reveals its royal and excellent quality in that it is governed and ruled autonomously by its own will." Gregory of Nyssa, De Hominis Opificio 4,1 Adam, Eve, and the Serpent (Elaine Pagels)

5		"The will toward mystery has an urge to unite, to love and be loved, to enter into the mystery of self and other. To go past such duality to the One that lies beyond thought or thinker, to the heart of the unspeakable wholeness and delight that patiently awaits our inward arrival." Turning Toward the Mystery: A Seeker's Journey (Stephen Levine)

6		"The divine will is the wholeness, the good and the true in all things. Like God, the universal Being, it is manifest in everything." Jean-Pierre deCaussade (1675-1751), French priest and author Devotional Classics (Richard J. Foster and James Bryan Smith, editors)

7		"Free Will is inherent in this creation, and is the birthright and heritage of each soul." A Million Years to the Promised Land (Robert W. Krajenke)

8		"We are all parts of the Logos, and our wills are part of his." The Inner Life (Charles W. Leadbeater)

9		"Each time we make use of our free will by giving, we are in copartnership with the infinite Bestower. When this is accomplished with clear awareness of what we are doing, we raise the consciousness of creation." God Is A Verb, Kabbalah and the Practice of Mystical Judaism (Rabbi David A. Cooper)

10		"The Father-Ground of all Creation is the selfless giving Will which gives us all and each our very being." Charles Lawrie, 'Doctor Stone: Walter Stein and the Holy Grail' The Household of the Grail (John Matthews, editor)

11		"This divine impulse, striving ever after fuller manifestation of life, is seen everywhere in nature, and has often been spoken of as the Will-to-live. It appears in the seed, which pushes its growing point towards the light, in the bud bursting its prison and expanding in the sunshine. It is the creative genius in the painter, the sculptor, the poet, the musician, the craftsman." Basic Theosophy (Geoffrey Hodson)

12		"For Clement of Alexandria, moral freedom is our glory; that we are made in the image of God really means that we have what he calls 'autexousia', a term often trnslated as 'free will', but, more accurately, 'the power to constitute one's own being'." Adam, Eve, and the Serpent (Elaine Pagels)

13		"There is no strain in doing God's Will as soon as you recognize that it is also your own." A Course in Miracles (Helen Schucman and William Thetford)

14		"Groups are forming now in their thousands and are to be found in every land, and they will eventually blend and fuse together into one great movement of goodwill, which is spirit in actual expression." Discipleship in the New Age (Alice A. Bailey)

15		“What first sets the will and intellect in motion is something higher than the will and intellect, i.e., God.” Aurora Consurgens (Marie Louise vonFranz)

16		"Each act of free will is adapted to such an arrangement of the whole as the settled order of the universe demands." Origen, 'On Prayer' Alexandrian Christianity (John E. L. Oulton, editor)

17		"At the origin of everything lies God's simple will and pleasure." Thomas Aquinas, 'On Truth', q. 6, a. 2 Sheer Joy, Conversations with Thomas Aquinas on Creation Spirituality (Matthew Fox)

18		"God writes His will upon the face of celestial and terrestrial Nature. With this language we read God's will for all His creatures." The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall)

19		"These two powers – unfoldment from less to more and reharmonization – operate irresistibly upon man, as upon all else that exists. Man can delay or hasten, but he cannot ultimately frustrate these two functions of the cosmic Will." Reincarnation: Fact or Fallacy? (Geoffrey Hodson)

20		"The law of God and also the way to life is written in our hearts; it lies in no man's supposing, nor in any historical opinion, but in a good will and well doing." Jacob Boehme (1571-1624), 'The Confessions' The Quotable Spirit (Peter Lorie and Manuela D Mascetti, editors)

21		"The will is a penetrating power which relates Plan to Purpose and which has in it the faculty of coherent persistence. The reason for this persistence is that it is not dependent upon the content of the form – whether it is the form of an atom, of a man or of a planet – but upon a vital dynamic and immutable purpose, latent in the consciousness of the Being Who 'having pervaded this entire universe with a fragment' of Himself, remains – greater…and firmer in intent than any of His creations, even the most advanced." The Rays and The Initiations (Alice A. Bailey)

22		"The will-to-good is the basic quality of divine purpose, involving planned activity and a definite goal to be achieved." Discipleship in the New Age (Alice A. Bailey)

23		"'The beginning' is ongoing, as the eternal unfolding of the Natural Law that governs the universe, moment to moment. In theological terms it is the continuous and invincible enactment of the will of God." Translators The Upanishads, selections translated by Alistair Shearer and Peter Russell (Alistair Shearer and Peter Russell, translators)

24		"The Will of the Logos is infinitely stronger than any human will, and not even the utmost exertion of perverse ingenuity can possibly prevail against Him." The Inner Life (Charles W. Leadbeater)

25		"All Nature is one. The expression of the one Divine Will is Nature." The Spiritual Life (Annie Besant)