Glimmerings of Spiritual Things

Treat your fellow man as you would like to be treated were you in his place.

—Phylos, the Thibetan

Spirit alone is real; all else is illusion.

—Phylos, the Thibetan

The atom will do excellent service throughout all future time.

—Phylos, the Thibetan

Look up and not down;

Look forward and not back;

Look out and not in;

Lend a hand!

I am only one,

But still I am one.

I cannot do everything,

But still I can do something;

And because I cannot do everything,

I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

—Edward Everett Hale, ca 1855

Earth is a letter in a seven-fold alphabet; the stellar universe is but one book; its pages truly are myriad, its chapters legion, yet, besides this book, the library of the Creator is of endless number.

—Mol Lang to Phylos, the Thibetan

And when manhood suffers decadence, degradation, all nature with which he has to do also sensibly alters for the worse.

—Phylos, the Thibetan

There is time enough, lives enough, but O friends, none to waste!

—Phylos, the Thibetan

Nature is true to human good while ignorance conceals her worth.

—Thomas Paine’s Spirit Mother

The tomb is not the home of the soul.

—Thomas Paine’s Spirit Mother

Everything is adapted to its condition. Nothing is unwise in the order of the divine government.

—Thomas Paine’s Spirit Mother