| The universe should be deemed an immense Being, always living, always moved and always moving in an eternal activity inherent in itself, and which, subordinate to no foreign cause, is communicated to all its parts, connects them together, and makes the world of things a complete and perfect whole. -- Albert Pike |
| Author:
Pike, AlbertEra:
1809 |
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| A superintending power to maintain the universe in its course and order. -- Thomas Jefferson |
| Author:
Jefferson, ThomasEra:
1743 |
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| The appearance and disappearance of the universe are pictured as an outbreathing and inbreathing of "the Great Breath," which is eternal, and which, being Motion, is one of the three aspects of the Absolute - Abstract Space and Duration being the other two. -- H. P. Blavatsky |
| Author:
Blavatsky, H. P.Era:
1831 |
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| Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments. -- John Ernest Steinbeck |
| Author:
Steinbeck, JohnEra:
1902 |
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| A man said to the universe: "Sir, I exist!" "However," replied the universe, "That fact has not created in me A sense of obligation." -- Stephen Crane |
| Author:
Crane, StephenEra:
1871 |
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| The path of immortality is hard, and only a few find it. The rest await the Great Day when the wheels of the universe shall be stopped and the immortal sparks shall escape from the sheaths of substance. Woe unto those who wait, for they must return again, unconscious and unknowing, to the seed-ground of stars, and await a new beginning. -- The Divine Pymander |
| Author:
Divine Pymander, TheEra:
-2500 |
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| The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. -- Thomas H. Huxley |
| Author:
Huxley, Thomas H.Era:
1825 |
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| The study of oneself must go side by side with the study of the fundamental laws of the universe. The laws are the same everywhere and on all planes. But the very same laws manifesting themselves in different worlds, that is, under different conditions, produce different phenomena. -- Gurdjieff |
| Author:
GurdjieffEra:
1873 |
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| Before God manifested Himself, when all things were still hidden in Him... He began by forming an imperceptible point; that was His own thought. With this thought He then began to construct a mysterious and holy form... the universe. -- Zohar |
| Author:
ZoharEra:
120 |
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| The universe, which is the uttered Word of God, is infinite in extent. There is no empty space beyond creation on any side. The universe, which is the Thought of God pronounced,never was not, since God never was inert; nor was, without thinking and creating. The forms of creation change, the suns and worlds live and die like the leaves and the insects, but the universe itself is infinite and eternal, because God Is, Was, and Will forever Be, and never did not think and create. -- Albert Pike |
| Author:
Pike, AlbertEra:
1809 |
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