Some of the people quoted: Paracelsus; William Blake; Algernon Blackwood; Apollonius of Tyana; George Russell (AE); Swami Saraswati; George Eliot; Max Weber; Henry David Thoreau,Hermann Hesse.
Angelus Silesius (1624-1677)German mystic
Though Christ a thousand times in Bethlehem be born,
But not within thyself, thy soul will be forlorn;
The cross of Golgotha thou lookest to in vain,
Unless within thyself it be set up again.
Dion Fortune (1890-1946)English occultist, writer, novelist
The gods, my dear boy, are lenses that wise men[sic] have made through which to focus the great natural forces.
--from The Winged Bull (Aquarian Press,1989)p.151
Paracelsus(German alchemist,doctor.1493-1541)
The relationship between heaven and man is twofold:the first that his image is counterfeited in heaven;the second is the prelude, in that all men's future work, mode of life, and behaviour is represented in advance, but in the form of a prophecy rather than a cause.
A woman is like a tree bearing fruit.A man is like the fruit that the tree bears....Man is to her what the pear is to the tree.The pear falls but the tree remains standing.
How marvellously man is made and formed, if one only knows how to penetrate into his true nature, understand what he is, and work out all his details.And it is a great thing that you should consider: there is nothing in heaven or in earth that is not also in man.For these are the heavenly powers that work in him....God made this heaven in man great and beautiful, noble and good... He is in us and we are His temple.
Man thus bears the noble name 'microcosm' in the sense that all heavenly orbits, terrestial nature, watery properties, and airy essence inhere in him.The nature of all fruits of the earth and all mineral ores of water, all the constellations, and the four winds of the world are in him.What is there upon earth whose nature and power does not reside in man?
I make it abundantly clear that everything in which man is subject to the light of Nature comes from the stars.All natural arts and human wisdom are given by the stars, we are the pupils of the stars, and they our teacher.God has ordered everything in the light of Nature, so that we may learn from it.The false prophets destroy this art, and the false physicians arise from the neglect of this cornerstone.
Man has two bodies: one from the earth, the second from the stars.The elemental, material body goes to the grave along with its essence; the sidereal,subtle body dissolves gradually and goes back to its source.But the spirit of god in us, which is like his image, returns to him whose image it is.Thus each part dies in that medium from which it has been created, and finds rest accordingly.
The stars need an agent through which to work, and this agent is man, and man alone.Man has been so created in such a form that through him the wonders of Nature are made visible and given form...For man is the revealer of that which is hidden in all things...Therefore man should work continually to discover what god has given him...We too should make manifest that which he has put in us, so that the unbelievers may see what god can achieve through man.
Magic transfers celestial forces to the medium in which such forces can operate.The medium is the centre, and the centre is man.
Whatever is in you must come forth, and you do not know how or whence it comes, or whither it is going.And finally you will find in yourself something which you have never learned or seen.
William Blake
What is the price of Experience: do men buy it for a song Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No it is bought with the price Of all that a man hath,his house his wife his children. Wisdom is sold in the desolate market where none come to buy And in the wither'd field where the farmer plows for bread in vain. (Vala)
If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.
Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you.
Every thing possible to be believed is an image of truth.
The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow.
The fox provides for himself, but God provides for the lion.
The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow; nor the lion, the horse, how he shall take his prey.
The soul of sweet delight can never be defiled.
As the catterpiller chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys.
Improvement makes strait roads: but the crooked roads without Improvement are roads of Genius.
No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings. (Marriage of Heaven & Hell)
Let the Priests of the Raven of dawn no longer, in deadly black, with hoarse note curse the sons of joy.Nor his accepted brethren whom,tyrant, he calls free, lay the bound or build the roof. Nor pale religious letchery call that virginity that wishes but acts not!
For every thing that lives is Holy. (A Song of Liberty)
To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour. (Auguries of Innocence)
He who binds to himself a joy
Does the winged life destroy:
He who kisses the joy as it flies
Lives in Eternity's sun rise. (Eternity)
Love to faults is always blind
Always is to joy inclined,
Lawless winged and unconfined
And breaks all chains from every mind
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We were put on this earth a space to learn to bear the beams of love.
Why am I bound to thee,
O my pretty myrtle tree?
Love, free love, can not be bound,
To a tree that grows on ground.
Art is the Tree of Life.
Science is the Tree of Death. (Laocoon)
Algernon Blackwood( English author.1869-1951)
That the Earth was a living being was a conception divine in size as in simplicity, and that the Gods and mythological figures had been projections of her consciousness - this thought ran with a magnificent new thunder about his mind. fr. Novel "The Centaur"
Rodney Collin( English follower of P.D.Ouspensky)
We must reach people more by feeling than by words.There is a good side to everyone;there is no one who is completely bad,as there is no one who is completely good.No one is perfect or he would not be here.
Alan Pert
The gods have become brand names.
Lift the painted veil and know eternity.[apologies to P.B.Shelley]
A human being is a gateway to the infinite.
Generation X: the first generation in history to be sacrificed upon the altar of economic materialism.
The purpose of humans is to birth a god.
Without paganism there would have been no Christianity.
They fall to rise anew: seeds, rain, souls.
The dandelion can't tell the oak tree how to grow.
Apollonius of Tyana
The individual is brought to birth through parents, not by parents.Just as a thing produced through the earth is not produced from it.The change which comes to the individual is nothing that is caused by his visible surroundings, but rather a change in the one thing which is in everyman.
George Russell (AE) ( Irish mystic and poet.1867-1935)
There are corridors in the house of our being, leading into the hearts of others, and windows which open into Eternity, and we can hardly tell where our own being ends and another begins, or if there is any end to our being.
Swami Gyanananda Saraswati The Yoga of Wisdom,1958.
Wisdom is the wealth of the wise.Wise men give good counsel, but wiser take it.
Life is a sacred trust of divine gift to manifest Godly life of perfection here and now.
All except God causes unrest.
Man has the potency of becoming a Godlike saint or a hog-like animal as he chooses and thus he is the author of his destiny.
Man buys a minute's joy to repent for a week.Slumbering Divine potentiality within man is waiting to evolve.Remove obstacles and help if you can, co-operate or be silent.
Man is a compound and complex being, whose essence of life defies reason and logic.
Men try to know the value of all things except themselves.Man is God playing the fool.
Man is a compendium of the universe, having the elemental life of plants, the sense knowledge of animals, human reason, angelic discretion and Divine image.
BE STILL WITHIN AND KNOW THYSELF.
"I" and "MINE" is the cause of all that has made life sad.
With the mind harmonised by God realisation, one sees God abiding in all things and all beings in God, one sees the same everywhere. He who sees God everywhere and everything in God, he never becomes separated from God nor does God become separated.
The great ocean is in a constant state of evaporation and gives back what it receives, and sends up its watery mists to gather into clouds and so there is rain for the earth and greenness and beauty everywhere.But there are many men who do not believe in evaporation.They get all they can and keep all they get, and so are not fertilisers but only stagnant miasmatic pools.
Ships may sink, houses may burn, banks may break, moths may devour, rust may corrode, thieves may steal, but what we have GIVEN to GOD and His work is for ever secure.Giving feeds love and lending loses it because the borrower is shy of you, and as he does not repay you, you soon grow shy of him.
GIVING IS LIVING
Give strength, Give thoughts,
Give deeds, Give help,
Give love, Give tears,
And Give THYSELF.
GIVE, GIVE, BE ALWAYS GIVING,
WHO GIVES NOT, IS NOT LIVING.
George Eliot(English author.1819-1880)
There is no short cut, no patent tramroad, to wisdom: after all the centuries of invention, the soul's path lies through the thorny wilderness, which must be still trodden in solitude, with bleeding feet,with sobs for help, as it was trodden by them of old time.
Max Weber(German sociologist,1864-1920)
Certainly all political experience confirms the truth that man would not have attained the possible unless time and again he had reached out for the impossible.
A Zen saying
When you reach the top of a mountain, keep on climbing.
Henry Davi Thoreau
What I have been preparing to say is this, in wilderness is the preservation of the world...Life consists of wildness.The most alive is the wildest.Not yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him...When I would re-create myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most interminable and to the citizen, most dismal, swamp. I enter as a sacred place, a Sanctum sanctorum. There is the strength, the marrow of Nature.In short, all good things are wild and free.(1851)
Hermann Hesse
Only the ideas that we really live have any value.
For mountain and stream, tree and leaf, root and blossom, every form in nature is echoed in us and originates in the soul whose being is eternity and is hidden from us but none the less gives itself to us for the most part in the power of love and creation.
"Love must not entreat," she added, "nor demand.Love must have the power to find its own way to certainty.Then it ceases merely to be attracted and begins to attract.Your love, Sinclair, is attracted by me.When it begins to attract me, I will come.I will not bestow a gift, I must be won." (Demian)
Mark Wegierski (Toronto, Canada)
The new society would be one where technology and the excess of rationalisation
and materialsim would be kept strictly in check, within a paradigm of Nature
which would unite Humanity,the World and the Cosmos.The source of our strength
would be a renewed emphasis on the deepest roots of our unconscious;our
openess to human feeling;the evocation of our distinctive, historically-rooted
ways of being, to reduce our boundless material craving for acquiring and
having superfluous commodities;and the desire for closeness and reunion
with Nature arising from the upsurge of our true eros.
"The dilemma of hypermodernity: hypermodernity vs postmodernity",Journal
of Religion and Psychical Research,v.18.no.1,Jan 1995,p.24