Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls. Intelligence inbound with the entire of reality, not fenced off, integral to that All. [...] Then it was as if One voice sounded. One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing; now we are become a dual thing, no longer that which we were at first, dormant, and in a sense no longer present.

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.

Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.

Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe

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

Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.

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