Many / One

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1		"The powers of the right and the left unite in the harmony of wisdom." The Acts of John, The Apocryphal New Testament

2		"Since knowledge of the world dwells in his own bosom, the adept should draw such knowledge out of his knowledge of himself, for the self he must seek to know is a part of that nature which was bodied forth by God's original oneness with the world."

3		“For the alchemists the world was an image and symbol of God.”

4		"Only from indistinguishable night can the light be born. This is what nature and natural experience teach."

5		"According to Hippolytus ('Elenchos', IV, 43. 4), the Egyptians said that God was an indivisible unity."

6		"'Time' is a relative concept and needs to be complemented by that of the 'simultaneous' existence, in the Bardo or pleroma, of all historical processes. What exists in the pleroma as an eternal process appears in time as an aperiodic sequence."

7		“Pelagios asks: ‘Why speak ye of the manifold matter? The substance of natural things is one.’”

8		"In the last analysis every life is the realization of a whole, that is, of a self."

9		“It is a great mystery, one unique mother of all mortal things, and they have all originated in her.” Paracelsus

10		"The soul must contain in itself the faculty of relationship to God, that is, a correspondence, otherwise a connection could never come about. This correspondence is, in psychological terms, the archetype of the God-image." 'Psychology and Alchemy'

11		"Immortality is a clock that never runs down, a mandala that revolves eternally like the heavens."

12		“According to Basilius Valentinus, the earth is inhabited by a spirit that is its life and soul. All created things, minerals included, draw their strength from the earth-spirit. This spirit is life…and it gives nourishment to all the living things it shelters in its womb.”

13		"However we may picture the relationship between God and soul, one thing is certain: that the soul cannot be 'nothing but'. On the contrary it has the dignity of an entity endowed with consciousness of a relationship to Deity." 'Introduction to the Religious and Psychological Problems of Alchemy'

14		"Our psyche spreads far beyond the confines of the conscious mind."

15		"God is near you, he is with you, he is within you." Seneca to Lucilius (Gummere translation)

16		"If we study the introspective method of medieval natural philosophy, we find that it repeatedly used the circle, and in most cases the circle divided into four parts, to symbolize the central principle."

17		“If the soul would know herself, she must contemplate herself, and gaze into that place where the power of the soul, Wisdom, dwells.” Richard White, letter of February 1567 to Johannes Turrius

18		"In my experience it is of considerable practical importance that the symbols aiming at wholeness should be correctly understood…They are the remedy with whose help neurotic dissociations can be repaired, by restoring to the conscious mind a spirit and an attitude which from time immemorial have been felt as solving and healing in their effects."

19		"The archetype is that which is believed always, everywhere, and by everybody."

20		"Archetypes were, and still are, living psychic forces that demand to be taken seriously, and they have a strange way of making sure of their effect. Always they were the bringers of protection and salvation."

21		“There is in fact one substance in which everything is contained.” ‘VIII Exercitatio in Turbam’

22		"The self is the whole man, whose symbols are the divine child and its synonyms."

23		"The God-image is within….Where the understanding is, where the mind is, where the power of investigating truth is, there God has his image.' St. Augustine, 'Enarrationes in Psalmos', XLVIII, Sermo II"

24		“God is known as One.” The Zohar

25		"Mandalas…are produced spontaneously, without external influence, even by children and adults who have never come into contact with any such ideas….The mandala symbolizes, by its central point, the ultimate unity of all archetypes as well as the multiplicity of the phemonenal world, and is therefore the empirical equivalent of the metaphysical concept of a 'unus mundus' [one world]."