George Ripley quotes
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“To that movement, consecrated by religious principle, sustained by an awful sense of justice, and cheered by the brightest hopes of future good, all our powers, talents, and attainments are devoted.”
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“We shall suffer no attachment to literature, no taste for abstract discussion, no love of purely intellectual theories, to seduce us from our devotion to the cause of the oppressed, the down trodden, the insulted and injured masses of our fellow men.”
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“Also there is a similitude of a Trinity shining in the body, soul and spirit.”
-- George RipleySource : George Ripley (2014). “Five Preparations of the Philosopher’s Mercury”, p.4, Volume Edizioni srl
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“Then hast our the Red Stone perfect with less labour, expense of time and costs, for the which ever thank God.”
-- George RipleySource : George Ripley (2014). “Liber Secretissumus”, p.3, Volume Edizioni srl
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“The growth of the soul may be compared to the growth of a plant. In both cases, no new properties are imparted by the operation of external causes, but only the inward tendencies are called into action and clothed with strength.”
-- George RipleySource : George Ripley (1836). “Discourses on the philosophy of religion: addresses to doubters who wish to believe”, p.42
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“But in this Second Work if thou extract our Air and our Fire with the phlegm water, they will the more naturally and easily be drawn out of their infernal prison, and with less losse of their Spirits, than by the former way before described.”
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“This is our mercury, our lunary, but whosoever thinks of any other water besides this, is ignorant and foolish, never attaining to the desired effects.”
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