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No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.

Annie Besant

In a 50 mile radius around Chicago one can see the red aura of pain, agony, terror, anger from all the animals being butchered there.
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Angry Hard Time Pain See
Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.
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Act Better Preparation Silence Thinking Yourself
When a man, a woman, see their little daily tasks as integral portions of the one great work, they are no longer drudges but co-workers with God.
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God Greatness Man Woman Work
We learn much during our sleep, and the knowledge thus gained slowly filters into the physical brain, and is occasionally impressed upon it as a vivid and illuminative dream.
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Dreams Impression Knowledge Learning
Theosophy tries to bridge the gulf between Buddhism and Christianity by pointing to the fundamental spiritual truths on which both religions are built, and by winning people to regard the Buddha and the Christ as fellow-laborers, and not as rivals.
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Fundamental People Religion Spiritual Truth Try Win
An accurate knowledge of the past of a country is necessary for everyone who would understand its present, and who desires to judge of its future.
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Country Desire Future Judgement Knowledge Necessary Past Present Understand
Where love rules, laws are not needed.
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Law Love Need Rule
Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of crowds, nor by arguments of unbridled passion, nor by the hatred of class against class.
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Argument God Greatness Hate Liberty Nation Passion Strong
There is no life without consciousness; there is no consciousness without life.
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Life Spiritual
No soul that aspires can ever fail to rise; no heart that loves can ever be abandoned. Difficulties exist only that in overcoming them we may grow strong, and they who have suffered are able to save.
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Difficult Existence Failure Growth Heart Love Rise Save Soul Strong Suffering
There is a charm in making a stew, to the unaccustomed cook, from the excitement of wondering what the result will be, and whether any flavour save that of onions will survive the competition in the mixture.
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Charm Competition Excitement Result Survive Wonder
When we recognise that unity of all living things, then at once arises the question – how can we support this life of ours with least injury to the lives around us; how can we prevent our own life adding to the suffering of the world in which we live?
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Injury Life Live Question Recognition Suffering Unity World
Man is a spiritual intelligence, who has taken flesh with the object of gaining experience in worlds below the spiritual, in order that he may be able to master and to rule them, and in later ages take his place in the creative and directing hierarchies of the universe.
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Creation Experience Intelligence Man Place Rule Spiritual Universe World
I was a wife and mother, blameless in moral life, with a deep sense of duty and a proud self-respect; it was while I was this that doubt struck me, and while I was in the guarded circle of the home, with no dream of outside work or outside liberty, that I lost all faith in Christianity.
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Blame Doubt Faith Home Humanity Liberty Life Lost Moral Mother Protection Respect Wife
When we realise our oneness with our RULER, then the matter shall have no longer power over us, and we shall see it as the unreality it is.
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God Ourselves Power Reality Rule See
Someone ought to do it, but why should I? Someone ought to do it, so why not I? Between these two sentences lie whole centuries of moral evolution.
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Evolution Lie Moral Sentence Work

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