“In order to bring the realm of the spiritual and the divine within the range of perception, humanity … loses the immediate union with the divine and the immediate vision of the spiritual. Then it tries to embody in a tangible or otherwise perceptible form, to materialize what is intangible, and imperceptible. It makes symbols … and sees in them and through them the spiritual and divine substance that has no likeness and could not otherwise be seen.”
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“I never saw any lamp
shining more brightly
than the lamp of silence.”
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shining more brightly
than the lamp of silence.”
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“O Thou whose Name is sweetest remedy
And whose remembrance heals our soul’s disease
With Thee each moment is Eternity
A drop from Heaven that consoles and frees.”
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And whose remembrance heals our soul’s disease
With Thee each moment is Eternity
A drop from Heaven that consoles and frees.”
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“He is One, and number has no place in Him; He is absolute, and dependence is far removed from Him; not that One which reason and understanding can know, not that Absolute which sense and imagination can recognize. He is not multitude, nor paucity;one multiplied by one remains one. In duality is only evil and error; in singleness is never any fault.”
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