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Lamps of Western Mysticism
Arthur Edward Waite

1 "'It is love which makes the world go round', says an old, familiar adage…the truth of all is behind it."

2 "The grace behind Nature is Divine Immanence, and we know that it flows in through all channels; it stands at the door and knocks; it is with us all days."

3 "Begin where one may in the universe, all roads lead ultimately to God."

4 "If it be asked what is the test of knowledge concerning Divine Will, there is one answer only, namely, that it becomes known in love."

5 "The first realisable truth concerning the soul of man is the native nobility of that which can dream of union with God, can also attain it,…and by the experience of such attainment discovers that in the soul itself…is God realised and known in the sacred nature of things."

6 "We are parts of a whole, and the whole must draw us as soon as we open our doors: this is grace working upon and within us."

7 "The secret law which underlies manifested being is that of the Presence of God."

8 "He Who is everywhere, without change or shadow of vicissitude, is never absent."

9 "There is no aspiration and no ambition to compare with the search after truth. The necessity of truth is as imperative as that of love, but indeed the distinction is idle because truth is love."

10 "The driving power of the mind is love."

11 "That One is the beginning and end of all."

12 "We are dwelling already in that love which is wedded to its source in God."

13 "Let us think…of the oneness to which all our nature testifies."

14 "Humanity ends where it began also, in the Divinity which is its home."

15 "Goodness communicates its lights to men and remakes them to the likeness of His Sovereign Perfection."

16 "It is love which cleanses and love alone that sanctifies."

17 "Knowledge is an inward state of our own essential being."

18 "The Cosmic Christ…dwells within us. The realisation of His presence is by love."

19 "The science of the soul is a science of active love."

20 "The end of Western Mysticism was the return of the many into the One."

21 "God is of infinite perfection, incomprehensible intelligence and supereminent unity."

22 "The love of goodness is the first experience of the natural man, and all spiritual advancement is an extension of the soul's journey through its great distance."

23 "Our human nature is a temple of the Divine Presence."

24 "The centre of grace is everywhere and the circumference nowhere."

25 "Under all outward illusion, and beneath all external phenomena, the Absolute is to be found within."

This body of quotes compiled by JoAnn Kite