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.

Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.

The soul in its nature loves God and longs to be at one with Him in the noble love of a daughter for a noble father; but coming to human birth and lured by the courtships of this sphere, she takes up with another love, a mortal, leaves her father and falls.

If someone with the right conduct tries to attain to something that lies outside of it, is his goal not the right conduct.

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

The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.

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