Many / One

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1		"The movement of loving is circular, and love is the real unitive force."

2		"The art, or wisdom, or Word of almighty God is the form of all creatures. For it is at the same time both the exemplar and the efficient and formal cause preserving things in the form given them, until created things are directed and recalled to it." Robert deGrosseteste, 'De unica forma omnium'

3		"A real continuation of God's creative power runs through the human soul."

4		"The divine existence…is infinite, and is not limited to any genus of being, but possesses within itself the perfection of all being." Thomas Aquinas, 'Summa Theologica', I, q. 25, art. 3 resp

5		"Spirit, soul, and body are one, and all is of One." Zadith Senior (Zadith ben Hamuel), 'De chemia'

6		"After the self has been experienced as a divine centre within the psyche, this experience expands into a feeling of oneness with the whole cosmos."

7		"The temple of God is holy, and it is within you." Honorius of Autun, 'Speculum'

8		"The earth is identical with the sublime figure of Wisdom….On closer examination this is really a tremendous thought. The 'Wisdom of God' in the Bible was the playmate of Yahweh, who was with him before the beginning of the world. In patristic literature she was defined as the 'archetypal world' or as the sum of eternal ideas in the mind of God, the prototypes from which he created all things."

9		"According to the medieval view the divine likeness reaches down even into the physical structure of natural things."

10		"In the self all opposites – conscious and unconscious, psyche and physis, and so on – unite."

11		“The Holy Spirit manifests liberty, for he is love.” Christopher Ulrich Hahn, ‘Geschichte der Ketzer im Mittelalter’

12		“The Holy Spirit warms all things with the fire of love.”

13		“What first sets the will and intellect in motion is something higher than the will and intellect, i.e., God.”

14		"The individual human being is the maturing-ground and birthplace of a divine inner man."

15		"The alchemists regarded the mystery of creation as divine."

16		"The human psyche, like God, can intervene creatively in the physical and chemical processes of nature."

17		"In the self the one is also the many, and the many are all comprised in the one."

18		"In unity, in a point, and a centre, which are the three principles of number, measure and weight, are all things created…and in God they are all things;…for in the centre He sustains all, in the point fulfils all, and in unity perfects all." 'Theatrum Chemicum' (1622),

19		"In all things that operate God is the cause of their operating." Thomas Aquinas, 'Summa contra Gentiles', III, 66

20		"The feminine aspect of the God-image, as an archetype, is in fact form without limitation, eternal and yet manifest and repeatable in an infinite number of individuals."

21		"The soul knows the First Being and itself in its essence by its own reflection upon itself." Avicenna, 'De anima'

22		"Alchemical symbols have the function of uniting the opposites."

23		"Know, therefore,….that from that One the whole of creation proceeded." Pythagoras, 'Turba Philosophorum' (medieval Arabic text)

24		“The Holy Spirit is the bond of eternity and equality.”

25		“According to St. Thomas Aquinas there is an intellectual light innate in man, which by ‘participated likeness’ is capable of knowing the first principles.”