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A Metaphysics...

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1. There is Only One ultimate Reality.

2. There is only One Love manifesting All Creation.

3. There is Only One essential Wisdom: everything and everyone exists in the One Reality in the eternal state of "inter-being".

4. There is One Love: Spirit, Breath, Sophia-Wisdom, and Ecstasy guiding and uplifting everyone into the one Consciousness of Love and Beauty.

5. There is One Love blessing awareness and awakening into lives of sacred activism, compassion, and the building of justice.

6. There is One Family embracing and uniting every human with all the creatures, this entire precious blue Planet, and all the Universe.

7. There is Only One Consciousness initiating, sustaining, and evolving every consciousness into Love-without-limits.

8. There is Only One Consciousness: the Beauty actively engaged within every heart, uplifting the seeker and student into the unity of the seen with the unseen.

9. There is One Love engaging every heart with the divine possibility of awakening into the Sophia-Wisdom of the Feminine.

10. There is only One Love Mystery uniting the trinity of the human -- body, soul, and spirit -- into the unity of Person alive in the rEvolution of transfiguration into the Divine: One Love.



Selected Quotations:


To love is to know me,
My innermost nature,
The truth that I am.  -- Bhagavad Gita

Listening to the Logos rather than to me, it is wise to agree that all things are in reality one thing and one thing only. -- Heraclitus

There is geometry in the humming of the strings... there is music in the spacing of the spheres. -- Pythagoras

There is nothing pleasurable except what is in harmony with the utmost depths of our divine nature. -- Heinrich Suso

The entire world has been embraced by the Creator's kiss. -- St. Hildegard of Bingen

As our body is a part of the universe, so also our soul is a part of the Soul of the universe. -- Plotinus

If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is : infinite. -- William Blake

The valley spirit never dies;
It is the woman, primal mother.
Her gateway is the root of heaven and earth. -- Lao-Tzu

Cleave a piece of wood, I
am there; lift up the stone and you will
find Me there. -- Yeshua, the Gospel of Thomas

You cannot desire what you do not realize you lack. -- Plato

The whole power of magic consists in love. -- Marsilio Ficino

Our task is to stamp this provisional, perishing earth into ourselves so deeply, so painfully and passionately, that its being may rise again, 'invisibly', in us.  -- Rainer
Maria Rilke

Soul is born in beauty, and feeds on beauty and requires beauty for its life. -- James Hillman

Everything flows. -- Heraclitus

Recognize what is before your eyes, and what is hidden will be revealed to you.
-- Yeshua, the Gospel of Thomas

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the hearts affections and the truth of the imagination. -- John Keats

If our work doesn't have an erotic tone to it, then it probably lacks soul as well.
-- Thomas Moore

We were created by Love, for Love, to become Love. -- Simone Weil

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