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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.

Annie Besant

Death cannot touch the higher consciousness of man it can only separate those who love each other so far as their lower vehicles are concerned; the man living on earth, blinded by matter, feels separated from those who have passed onwards, but there is no such thing as Death at all.
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Death Feeling Live Love Man Separate Touch
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Socialism is the ideal state, but it can never be achieved while man is so selfish.
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Achievement Ideal Man
The highest Hindu intellectual training was based on the practice of yoga, and produced, as its fruit, those marvellous philosophical systems, the six Darshanas and the Brahma Sutras, which are still the delight of scholars and the inspiration of occultists and mystics.
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Fruit Inspirational Intellectual Training Philosophy Practice Production Religious Spiritual System
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
A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a myth gives a story of the substances that cast the shadows.
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Difference Fantasy History Shadow Story True
I often think that woman is more free in Islam than in Christianity. Woman is more protected by Islam than by the faith which preaches monogamy. In AI Quran the law about woman is juster and more liberal.
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Freedom Justice Law Liberty Protection Religious Right Woman
All men die. You may say: ‘Is that encouraging?’ Surely yes, for when a man dies, his blunders, which are of the form, all die with him, but the things in him that are part of the life never die, although the form be broken.
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Break Death Encouragement Life Man Mistake Spiritual
Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.
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Act Better Preparation Silence Thinking Yourself
Muhammadan law in its relation to women, is a pattern to European law. Look back to the history of Islam, and you will find that women have often taken leading places – on the throne, in the battle-field, in politics, in literature, poetry, etc.
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Battle God Law Leadership Literature Place Poetry Politics Relation Woman
A common religion is not possible for India, but a recognition of a common basis for all religions, and the growth of a liberal, tolerant spirit in religious matters, are possible.
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Growth Liberty Possible Recognition Religion Spirit Tolerance
The misery we inflict on sentient beings slackens our human evolution.
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Evolution Human Misery Ourselves
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
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
There is no life without consciousness; there is no consciousness without life.
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Life Spiritual
Thought creates character.
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Character Creation One Liner Thinking
For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most.
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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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Clothes Earth Herself Intelligence Space Strange
Purification is but the cleaning of the lamp-glass which hides the Light.
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Hide Light Purity

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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