The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.

A dogma recognized throughout antiquity... (that) the soul expiates its sins in the darkness of the infernal regions and... afterwards... passes into new bodies, there to undergo new trials.

Knowledge has three degrees--opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.

Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.

When we look outside of that on which we depend we ignore our unity; looking outward we see many faces; look inward and all is one head. If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.

Nature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know.

It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.