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Death, as the human consciousness understands it, pain and sorrow, loss and disaster, joy and distress, are only such because man, as yet, identifies himself with the life of the form and not with the life and consciousness of the soul...p. 76

— Alice Bailey A Treatise on the Seven Rays: Volume 1: Esoteric Psychology (1936)

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I have already given you more than you can understand, but not more than you can begin slowly to study and eventually to comprehend...

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Arrest each unloving thought; stamp out each critical action, and teach yourself to love all beings - not in theory but in deed and in truth.

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The more a man grasps and knows, the greater is the horizon which opens up before him.

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There is no finality in the presentation of truth; it develops and grows to meet man's growing demand for light.

When the spiritual intelligence, which stands alone and freed from objects, reflects itself in the mind stuff, then comes awareness of the self.

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