Quotes About Divine

The reaping skeleton physically signifies death but philosophically that irresistible impulse in Nature which causes every being to be ultimately absorbed into the divine condition in which it existed before the illusionary universe had been manifested.

Herodotus relates that when Cambyses entered the temple of the Cabiri he was unable to restrain his mirth at seeing before him the figure of a man standing upright and, facing the man, the figure of a woman standing on her head. Had Cambyses been acquainted with the principles of divine astronomy, he would have realized that he was then in the presence of the key to universal equilibrium.

If the infinite had not desired man to be wise, he would not have bestowed upon him the faculty of knowing.

By initiation into the Mysteries and a certain process known as operative theology, this law of birth and death is transcended, and during the course of physical existence that part of the spirit which is asleep in form is awakened without the intervention of death. This is at once the primary purpose and the consummate achievement of the Mysteries: that man shall become aware of and consciously be reunited with the divine source of himself without tasting of physical dissolution.

The zero card–Le Mat, the Fool–has been likened to the material universe because the mortal sphere is the world of unreality. The lower universe, like the mortal body of man, is but a garment, a motley costume, well likened to cap and bells. Beneath the garments of the fool is the divine substance, however, of which the jester is but a shadow; this world is a Mardi Gras–a pageantry of divine sparks masked in the garb of fools.

I saw my Lord with the eye of the heart I asked, 'Who are You?' He replied, 'You'.

I saw my Lord with the eye of my heart I said: 'Who are you?' He said: 'You!' But for You, 'where' cannot have a place And there is no 'where' when it concerns You. The mind has no image of your existence in time Which would permit the mind to know where you are. You are the one who encompasses every 'where' Up to the point of no-where So where are you?

Gangway for de Lawd God Jehovah!

God is love. Thus when we love with the love of charity, our actions are the actions of God.

Never have I heard Him speak, but I feel that He is within me at each moment; He is guiding and inspiring me with what I must say and do" (S 276).

The kingdom of God is within you."219 Jesus has no need of books or teachers to instruct souls; He teaches without the noise of words.220 Never have I heard Him speak, but I feel that He is within me at each moment; He is guiding and inspiring me with what I must say and do.

all souls cannot be the same, that it is necessary there be different types in order to honor [20]each of God's perfections in a particular way.

God made me [32r°] feel that true glory is that which will last eternally, and to reach it, it isn't necessary to perform striking works but to hide oneself and practice virtue in such a way that the left hand knows not what the right is doing.62

God alone, content with my weak efforts, [20]will raise me to Himself and make me a saint, clothing me in His infinite merits.

only the day of the first, the unique, [36r°] the eternal Communion of Heaven will be endless!

The gods are jealous and men are fools.

Cromwell was a man who believed in the will of God and the power of an idea.

He remembered the story of an old man who went into a church one day to reprimand God for never having helped him win the lottery—not once, not even a single little prize, and he was about to celebrate his ninety-seventh birthday. And then, from within a celestial ray of light, God's voice boomed down to him: "Try buying a ticket first.

through which the king, wearing his crown, was presented to his people as a divinely appointed figure of power.

thanks to God's will – Alfred was victorious.

Great American Desert appeared to have retreated westward across the Rockies to the threshold of the Great Basin. Such a spectacular climatic transformation was not about to be dismissed as a fluke, not by a people who thought themselves handpicked by God to occupy a wild continent. A new school of meteorology was founded to explain it. Its unspoken principle was divine intervention, and its motto was "Rain Follows the Plow.

It is comforting when one has a sorrow to lie in the warmth of one's bed and there, abandoning all effort and all resistance, to bury even one's head under the cover, giving one's self up to it completely, moaning like branches in the autumn wind. But there is still a better bed, full of divine odors. It is our sweet, our profound, our impenetrable friendship.

And looks commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes.

I made him just and right, sufficient to have stood, though free to fall.