Harold W. Percival Quotes

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Capricorn is the sign of individuality, having attained which the human fulfills his obligations to others and becomes a god.

Harold W. Percival
…for every part of the body of man there is a corresponding force and entity in nature, which is the body of God, and the beings who take part in the building of the body are bound to that part which they have built and must respond to the nature of the function which that part is commanded by the incarnated ego to perform.

Harold W. Percival
Entering the life-stream of the world, wrapping itself in grosser and denser matter, sinking into the senses and drugged into forgetfulness by the emotions, the mind is encircled, hemmed in, bound down and held a prisoner by form.

Harold W. Percival
The Infinite here appears to be finite as it enters into the play of life.

Harold W. Percival
Man has not yet come into full consciousness of brotherhood, but he may at least theorize about it, and begin to put his theories into practice.

Christ

Harold W. Percival
Through thought in the mind the soul came into the world, through thought the soul became bound to the world, through thought the soul becomes freed.

Harold W. Percival
He lives in his own universe, the confines of which he builds. And what he believes to be realities are the thought pictures with which he fills it. As the web may be swept away and the spider remains to build another, so in each life the individuality causes to be built for itself a new universe, though most often the personality knows it not.

Harold W. Percival
From November of 1892 I passed through astonishing and crucial experiences, following which, in the spring of 1893, there occurred the most extraordinary event of my life. I had crossed 14th Street at 4th Avenue, in New York City. Cars and people were hurrying by. While stepping up to the northeast corner curbstone, Light, greater than that of myriads of suns opened in the center of my head. In that instant or point, eternities were apprehended. There was no time. Distance and dimensions were not in evidence.

Harold W. Percival
After first seeing the light and feeling the power and hearing the voice, one will not at once pass into the realm of soul. He will live many lives on earth, and in each life will walk silently and unknown over the path of forms until his selfless action shall cause the realm of soul again to open out from within when he will again receive the selfless love, the living power, and the silent wisdom. Then he will follow the deathless ones who have travelled before on the deathless path of Consciousness.

Harold W. Percival
The paste, the paint, the costume, the footlights and the play cause the soul to forget its being in eternity, and it is immersed in the littleness of the play.

Harold W. Percival
This knowledge can only come to the man who becomes as "wise as a serpent and as harmless as a dove."

Glamour

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This is the Message we would bring: the strength to free the mind from ignorance, prejudice, and deceit; the Courage to seek the truth in every form; the Love to bear each other's burdens; the Peace that comes to a freed mind, an Opened Heart; and the Consciousness of an undying life.

Brotherhood

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We are not, as we fancy, living in a world of reality. We are asleep in a world of shadows.

Harold W. Percival
Thoughts of hatred, selfishness and the like, compel their creator to go through like experiences and bind him to the world.

Harold W. Percival
I do not presume to preach to anyone; I do not consider myself a preacher or a teacher. Were it not that I am responsible for the book, I would prefer that my personality be not named as its author. The greatness of the subjects about which I offer information, relieves and frees me from self-conceit and forbids the plea of modesty.

Harold W. Percival
When passion and lust are controlled and overcome there will be no door through which maleficent beings can come into the world.

Harold W. Percival
When one toy ceases to amuse, another is cunningly proposed by which the soul is led ever deeper into the meshes of life. It continues to be amused, occupied and entertained in a continual round of change, and forgets the dignity and power of its presence and the simplicity of its being.

Harold W. Percival
The sum total of a life time's thoughts is the destiny or inheritance of the future incarnation.

Harold W. Percival
Form is now God …Who dares renounce allegiance to the God? Who knows and dares and wills, can dethrone the false god, and use it to diviner ends; unshackle the captive; claim his divine inheritance; and begin the path that leads to the All-one-ness of Consciousness.

Sex

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This is the law: Every thing existing on the physical plane is an exteriorization of thought, which must be balanced through the one who issued the thought, and in accordance with that one's responsibility, at the conjunction of time, condition, and place.

Harold W. Percival
You will not be, you cannot be, satisfied with anything less than Self-knowledge. You, as feeling-and-desire, are the responsible doer of your Triune Self; from what you have made for yourself as your destiny you must learn two great lessons which all experiences of life are to teach. These lessons are: What to do, and, What not to do.
You may put these lessons off for as many lives as you please, or learn them as soon as you will — that is for you to decide, but in the course of time you will learn them.

Harold W. Percival
Our earth is like a hollow and spherical sponge in a current of the ocean of life. We live on the skin of this sponge.
Form

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For you it is possible to do anything; the only thing impossible for you to do is to do wrong, inasmuch as you are knowledge and justice and love.

Harold W. Percival
When the mind first begins to incarnate it is terrified and repelled by the animality of desire.

Harold W. Percival