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Strange indeed would it be if all the space around us be empty, mere waste void, and the inhabitants of Earth the only forms in which intelligence could clothe itself.

Annie Besant

Men are at every stage of evolution, from the most barbarous to the most developed; men are found of lofty intelligence, but also of the most unevolved mentality; in one place there is a highly developed and complex civilisation, in another a crude and simple polity.
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Civilization Development Evolution Intelligence Man Mental Place Simplicity
Knowledge is essential to conquest; only according to our ignorance are we helpless. Thought creates character. Character can dominate conditions. Will creates circumstances and environment.
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Character Creation Domination Environment Help Ignorance Knowledge
No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.
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Atheist Goodness Happiness Philosophy Religion World
Socialism is the ideal state, but it can never be achieved while man is so selfish.
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Achievement Ideal Man
Death is but an aspect of life, and the destruction of one material form is but a prelude to building up of another.
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Build Death Destruction Life Material
Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to face many a danger, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle.
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Adventure Battle Country Dangerous Face Forget Inspirational Joy Life Lose Noble Win
No durable things are built on violent passion. Nature grows her plants in silence and in darkness, and only when they have become strong do they put their heads above the ground.
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Build Darkness Growth Nature Passion Plant Silence Strong Violence
Meditation means this opening out of the soul to the Divine and letting the Divine shine in without obstruction from the personal self. Therefore it means renunciation. It means throwing away everything that one has, and waiting empty for the light to come in.
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Deep Difference Divine Empty Light Meditation Soul Spiritual Wait
Clairvoyants can see flashes of colour, constantly changing, in the aura that surrounds every person: each thought, each feeling, thus translating itself in the astral world, visible to the astral sight.
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Change Color Feeling See Thinking World
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
Men are at every stage of evolution, from the most barbarous to the most developed; men are found of lofty intelligence, but also of the most unevolved mentality; in one place there is a highly developed and complex civilisation, in another a crude and simple polity.
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Civilization Development Evolution Intelligence Man Mental Place Simplicity
Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.
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Believe Evidence Experience Limitation Logic Mad Ourselves Position
The world, with all its beauty, its happiness and suffering, its joys and pains, is planned with the utmost ingenuity, in order that the powers of the Self may be shown forth in manifestation.
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Beautiful Happiness Power Suffering World
I will suggest that the great aim of our education is to bring out of the child who comes into our hands every faculty that he brings with him, and then to try to win that child to turn all his abilities, his powers, his capacities, to the helping and serving of the community which is a part.
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In the light of reincarnation life changes its aspect, for it becomes the school of the eternal Man within us, who seeks therein his development, the Man that was and is and shall be, for whom the hour will never strike.
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Change Development Forever Life Light Man Seek Time
Celibacy is not natural to men or to women; all bodily needs require their legitimate satisfaction, and celibacy is a disregard of natural law.
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Strange indeed would it be if all the space around us be empty, mere waste void, and the inhabitants of Earth the only forms in which intelligence could clothe itself.

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