Many / One

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1		"'Love thy neighbour as thyself' – so simple and so clear! And quite enough to change this tortured earth to a lovely place."

2		"He whose aspirations are high, sincere and enduring may begin at once to achieve Godhood and acquire first-hand knowledge of the secrets of the universe."

3		"Confucius believed in the one God over all."

4		"When the aspirant can grow to love his neighbours for their struggles and faults, and utterly abstain from any critical feeling, then 'will all things be added unto him.' There will be no barriers to prevent it. Like attracts like, and his own honesty and charity will inevitably draw to him as to a magnet all that is good."

5		"It is very necessary to see life as a Whole."

6		"Everyone should breathe in the divine Breath of Life with all his heart and sing his song of thanksgiving no less regularly than do the birds."

7		"Man is said to contain within himself a facsimile of and a link with everything in the universe."

8		"The flame of regeneration and renaissance is burning high already, and many are the little sparks, fanned by patient souls, ready now to flare into a rich fulfillment."

9		"The spirit in man has always been divinely alive." Alice A. Bailey, Preface

10		"Everything which you can love you can understand."

11		"Love is the magnet which holds all life together. Its attraction is so strong that nothing can resist it."

12		"Universal love…produces an understanding of all that exists in nature."

13		"Service leads to working with others, the beginning of that Universal Brotherhood which is inevitably and actually coming into being before our eyes."

14		"Enlightenment has ever poured fourth over humanity from the heart of God."

15		"Man is a god in the making, and the goal is waiting before him."

16		"The Wisdom Teaching, down the ages, has come forth from God and thrown the needed light upon the ways of men. It has taken the form outwardly of the world religions, but has always presented to those whose eyes were open those esoteric truths and those clear instructions whereby man can find his own soul and his way back to the centre of life."

17		"The Creative Force within us is one single force."

18		"The greatest things we can have – wisdom, health and power – are all-pervading and cannot be divided. They can only develop and be shared."

19		"'Man, know Thyself' was inscribed over the doors of the wonderful ancient temples of learning as the most important injunction to all aspirants."

20		"Everything in life is evolving upwards and onwards to a higher and more perfect state, having had its beginning in an uncreative, unconscious and elementary form, and growing and progressing through striving, sacrifice and struggle to a condition of creative selfconscious potent strength."

21		"Man is an animal, but he is an animal embodying a god."

22		"When universal love, neighbourliness and brotherhood eventually spread across the world, East and West will learn from each other and pool their attributes."

23		"Fear is something of our making, and it paralyses us and renders us stupid."

24		"'Man, Know Thyself' was the ancient command written above the temple door. If we persevere with this fascinating study we will find that in the form of every human being the universe is presented to us."

25		"His [Christ's] work was to transfer the possibility of attainment from the few to the many, to simplify the great Truths for the use of all humanity and to introduce the ultimate act of attainment, the awakening of the Love principle in the heart."