Mont Saint Michel and Chartres (1904)
Context: The art of this poetry of love and hope which marked the mystics, lay of course in the background of shadows which marked the cloister. "Inter Vania nihil vanius est homine." [Among vain things nothing is more vain than man. ] Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God. If ever modern science achieves a definition of Energy, possibly it may borrow the figure:— Energy is the inherent effort of every multiplicity to become unity. Adam's poetry was an expression of the effort to reach absorption through love, not through fear, but to do this thoroughly he had to make real to himself his own nothingness; most of all to annihilate pride, for the loftiest soul can comprehend that an atom — say, of hydrogen,— which is proud of its personality, will never merge in a molecule of water.
Source: The Esoteric Tradition (1935), Chapter 6
1960s, Inaugural address (1965)
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 280.
Women Saints of East and West
Think on These Things (1998), compiled by Clarke E. Johnston, p. 22
Other quotes
“Man is becoming God—that is the simple fact. Man is God in the making.”
Source: The Voice of Destruction (1940), p. 246
Context: Yes, man has to be passed and surpassed. Nietzsche did, it is true, realized something of this, in his way. He went so far as to recognize the superman as a new biological variety. But he was not too sure of it. Man is becoming God—that is the simple fact. Man is God in the making.
“God became man so that man might become God.”
Factus est Deus homo ut homo fieret Deus.
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Sermons
Reported in Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 511.
