He Who Deals with the Causes Behind Phenomena

Q. Similarly, describe the Initiate of The Sacred Science. A. He who deals with the causes behind phenomena, studies and learns to wield the laws in all worlds of form and co-ordinates them in one essential Unity or Cause.

Source: The Science of the Initiates  by Eugene Milne Cosgrove

A Time When the Two Rival Hemispheres Came Together

As McGilchrist argues, the Renaissance was a time when the two rival hemispheres came together briefly, that is, they “integrated,” and formed a creative union that produced remarkable works of art and architecture.

Source: The Secret Teachers of the Western World  by Gary Lachman

We Are One and the Same

So, you ask where did we come from? We came from the stars. And for me the most poetic accurate way to say this is not only are we alive in the universe, the universe is alive within us. We...

Focusing on Our Subtle, Inner Worlds, Rather than Our Obvious Outer One

The esoteric tradition is also intuitive, focusing on our subtle, inner worlds, rather than our obvious outer one. It believes in a living, organic, spiritual, even conscious universe, rather than a dead, mechanical, oblivious one. It is also concerned more...

Source: The Secret Teachers of the Western World  by Gary Lachman

It’s Energy Surrounds Us and Binds Us

For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is. Life creates it, makes it grow. Its energy surrounds us and binds us. Luminous beings are we—not this crude matter.

Source: The Empire Strikes Back

Participants in a Great Cosmic Chain of Being

From that day on, I began to think of people not as the masters of space and time but as participants in a great cosmic chain of being...

The Network of Connections That Links Everything With Everything Else

The right brain is geared toward engaging with living things, McGilchrist says, and with recognizing overall patterns, meanings, and relations. It is attuned to the network of connections that links everything with everything else. Its fundamental attention is to the...

Source: The Secret Teachers of the Western World  by Gary Lachman

Freedom from Self-Centeredness of Thought and Behavior

The foundational line of true ethical behavior, its main guiding principle valid across all times and cultures, is the degree of freedom from self-centeredness of thought and behavior, and willingness freely to give up one’s own self-interest on behalf of...

A Conspiracy of Love

Months later, while outlining a not-yet-titled book about the emerging social alternatives, I thought again about the peculiar form of this movement: its atypical leadership, the patient in-tensity of its adherents, their unlikely successes. It suddenly struck me that in...

Source: The Aquarian Conspiracy  by Marilyn Ferguson

Links in This Vast Chain Extending Round the Whole Globe

I might point to the fact that, although the meetings of our society are of necessity enshrouded with the veil of secresy, which circumstance, in seasons of excitement and peril, the designing and malicious would have converted into matter of...

Initiating and Advancing Other Men

To attain this transmutation, this metamorphosis of himself, he is taught first to purify and subdue his sensual nature; then to purify and develop his mental nature; and finally, by utter surrender of his old life and losing his soul...

Source: The Meaning of Masonry  by W.L. Wilmshurst

Conceiving the World as One Interdependent Structure

But there is one new and encouraging element present in most of the recommendations of today's experts. They are recognizing the necessity of conceiving the world as one interdependent structure.

Source: The Secret Destiny of America  by Manly P. Hall

Some Even Believe We Are Part of a Secret Cabal

Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as "internationalists" and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global...

Source: Memoirs  by David Rockefeller

Religious Differences Are Seen as the Final Barrier

Let's briefly consider the spiritual part of this agenda: Religious differences are seen as the final barrier, separating various ethnic populations. Until these differences are broken down, divergent cultures will never fully meld into a One World Order.

Source: One World  by Tal Brooke

A Global Religion

The political, military, and economic pillars of this long range plan cannot fully support a World Order without the fourth pillar - a global religion - standing beneath the fourth corner, lest the structure collapse. It is that simple.

Source: One World  by Tal Brooke

Four Great Problems

Four great problems that men at all times have had to face need new interpretation, in his opinion. These are: 1. How the universe arose or was created, how it operates, who or what makes things happen and why. 2....