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In the way of Grace, the inward and outward applications go hand in hand in the same radiation of Mercy, while in the sphere of spiritual realization the differences will be of degree rather than principle; every intelligence and every will is able to participate in one and and the same Grace according to the measure of its possibilities....

It goes without saying that it is possible to pass from one religious form to another without being converted, which may happen for reasons of esoteric, and therefore spiritual, expediency...

Will for the Good, and love of the Beautiful are the necessary concomitants of knowledge of the True, and their repercussions are incalculable.

One of the truths overlooked by moralists is that when a work of charity is accomplished through love of God, or in virtue of the knowledge that I am the neighbor and that the neighbor is myself - a knowledge that implies this love - the work in question has for the neighbor not only the value of an outward benefit, but also that of a benediction.

Islam re-established a sacred legislation for "this world", and in this way rejoined Judaism, while at the same time reaffirming the universality that Christianity had affirmed beforehand when breaking the husk of the Mosaic Law.

that which unites the being, and more particularly the realized being, to the Divine Principle, is the Intellect; that which separates the world - or any microcosm - from the Principle, is Existence.

If it is incorrect to speak of a "choice" with reference to the Infinite, it is equally wrong to speak of a "desire", since it is less a desire for Divine Reality that characterizes the initiate than a logical and ontological tendency toward his own transcendent Essence. This definition is of extreme importance.

Any truth can in fact be understood at different levels and according to different conceptual dimensions, that is to say, according to an indefinite number of modalities that correspond to all the possible aspects, likewise indefinite in number, of the truth in question.