"... to Hindu thought the Absolute godhead was unknowable, but He disclosed three faces to man - Brahma the Creator, Shiva the Destroyer, Krishna the repairer..."
"I it am, the Might and Goodness of the Fatherhood; I it am, the Wisdom of the Motherhood; I it am, the Lightness and the Grace that is all blessed Love; I it am, the Trinity, I am the Unity; I am the sovereign goodness of all manner of things; I am that maketh thee to love; I am that maketh thee to long: I it am, the endless fulfilling of all true desires."
"Thus the ideals of artist, student, and philanthropist, who all seek under different modes the same reality, are gathered up in the mystic's One; as the pilgrimage of the three kings ended in the finding of one Star."
"the one secret, the greatest of all, ... the doctrine of the Incarnation, regarded not as an historical event which occurred two thousand years ago, but as an event which is renewed in the body of every one who is in the way to the fulfillment of his original destiny."
"a divine, suffering, self-sacrificing Personality was then shown as the sacred heart of a living, striving universe..."
"For thou art the Word of God humanified"
"The Son of God, the Eternal Word in the Father, who is the glance, or brightness, and the power of the light eternity, must become man and be born in you, if you will know God: otherwise you are in the dark stable and go about groping."
"if you would truly know how these things come to pass
ask it of Grace, not of doctrine;
of desire, not of intellect;
of the ardours of prayer, not of the teachings of the schools;
of the Bridegroom, not of the Master;
of God, not of Man;
of the darkness, not of the day;
not of illumination, but of that Fire which enflames all
and wraps us in God with great sweetness and most ardent Love."
"in the fourth degree, the Bride who has been so greatly honoured, caught up to such unspeakable delight, sinks in her own will and "is humiliated below herself". She accepts the pains and duties in the place of the raptures of love; and becomes a source, a 'parent' of fresh spiritual life. The Sponsa Dei develops into the Mater Divinae gratiae. That imperative need of life, to push on, to create, to spread, is here seen operating in the spiritual sphere. This forms that rare and final stage in the evolution of the great mystics, in which they return to the world which they forsook; and there they live, as it were, as centres of transcendental energy, the creators of spiritual families, the partners and fellow-labourers with the Divine Life."
"In the mystics of the West, the highest forms of Divine Union impel the self to some sort of active, rather than passive life: ...The obstacle in their path is not consciousness in general, but self-consciousness, the consciousness of the Ego. The Ego is the limitation.."
"The individual learns to transfer himself from a centre of self-activity into an organ of revelation of universal being ..."
"The soul enamoured of My Truth never ceases to serve the whole world in general."
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