Many / One

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1		“Nothing possessed of being lies outside the workings of Providence.”

2		“There is nothing in the world without a share of the Beautiful and the Good.”

3		“Whatever is, is from the Good, is good and desires the beautiful and the Good.”

4		"Indeed the inscrutable One is out of the reach of every rational process. Nor can any words come up to the inexpressible Good, this One, this Source of all unity, this supra-existent Being."

5		"We must make the holy journey to the heart of the sacred symbols."

6		“All the radii of a circle are brought together in the unity of the center which contains all the straight lines brought together within itself. These are linked one to another because of this single point of origin and they are completely unified at this center.”

7		"He makes our life, disposition, and activity something one and divine….Formed of light, initiates in God's work, we shall be perfected and bring about perfection."

8		“Wisdom is the One who renews and makes perfect.”

9		“You will find nothing in the world which is not in the One….Everything owes to the One its individual existence and the process whereby it is perfected and preserved.”

10		“God is providentially available to all.”

11		“This transcendently real Godhead is the source of everything. It is the cause which gives being. It is the power holding all things together and the goal embracing all things.”

12		“Contemplate all things, even the things that are opposites, in a simple unity within the universal Cause.”

13		"This essential Good, by the very fact of its existence, extends goodness into all things. Think of how it is with our sun….by the very fact of its existence it gives light to whatever is able to partake of its light. So it is with the Good. Existing far above the sun, an archetype far superior to its dull image, it sends the rays of its undivided goodness to everything with the capacity to receive it. These rays are responsible for all intelligible and intelligent beings, for every power and every activity….Their longing for the Good makes them what they are and confers on them their well-being. Shaped by what they yearn for, they exemplify goodness and, as the Law of God requires of them, they share with (all) the good gifts which have come their way."

14		“The goodness of the Deity has endless love for humanity.”

15		"The soul has movement – First it moves in a circle, that is, it turns within itself and away from what is outside and there is an inner concentration of its intellectual powers. A sort of fixed revolution causes it to return from the multiplicity of externals, to gather in upon itself and then, in this undispersed condition, to join those who are themselves in a powerful union. From there the revolution brings the soul to the Beautiful and the Good, which is beyond all things, is one and the same, and has neither beginning nor end."

16		“Providence has neither a beginning nor an end, and is open to all and encompasses all.”

17		"We owe to God's goodness our being and our life…using the everlasting model of beauty, God has made us in his image and he has given us a share of the divine condition and uplifting."

18		“The reality is that all things are contained beforehand in and are embraced by the One in its capacity as an inherent unity.”

19		"The divine Light, out of generosity, never ceases to offer itself to the eyes of the mind, eyes which should seize upon it for it is always there, always divinely ready with the gift of itself."

20		“The power of the Godhead spreads out everywhere, penetrates all things irresistibly.”

21		“Everything, and every part of everything, participates in the One.”

22		"No duality can be an originating source; the source of every duality is a monad."

23		“The Transcendent One predefined and brought into being everything that is.”

24		"His transcendent power is inexpressible, unknowable, inconceivably great, and, as it flows over, it empowers whatever is weak and it preserves and directs the humblest of its echoes….God's infinite power is distributed among all things and there is nothing in the world entirely bereft of power….The benefits of this inexhaustible Power reach out to humans, to animals, to plants, and indeed to all of nature."

25		“There is only one Providence over all the world, a supra-being transcending all power visible and invisible.”