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The Soul of the All, as an entirety, governs the universe through that part of it which leans to the body side, but since it does not exercise a will based on calculation as we do--but proceeds by purely intellectual act as in the execution of an artistic conception--its ministrance is that of a labourless overpoising, only its lowest phase being active upon the universe it embellishes.

They bestow universal education upon man and cause him to rise from lowest levels of savagery to the highest pinnacles of spiritual development.

From all standpoints the opportunities have been equal but the results and outcomes vary from the highest to lowest degree of advancement.

While they were in the condition of abject poverty, in the lowest degree of abasement, ignorance and servility His Holiness Moses suddenly appeared among them.

If He has been an educator, if He has really trained a nation or people, causing it to rise from the lowest depths of ignorance to the highest station of knowledge, then we are sure that He was a prophet.

One has the highest degree, another the medium degree, and another the lowest degree.

In the same way the punishments of the other world, that is to say, the torments of the other world, consist in being deprived of the special divine blessings and the absolute bounties, and falling into the lowest degrees of existence.

One advanceth rapidly, another is slow in catching the rays of culture, still another remaineth in the lowest degree of stupidity.

The truth may be resumed in this way: There is a lowest power of the Soul, a nearest to earth, and this is interwoven throughout the entire universe: another phase possesses sensation, while yet another includes the Reason which is concerned with the objects of sensation: this higher phase holds itself to the spheres, poised towards the Above but hovering over the lesser Soul and giving forth to it an effluence which makes it more intensely vital.

A soul, which neither chooses the highest that is here, nor has lent itself to the lowest, is one which has abandoned another, a purer, place, taking this sphere in free election.

Man as sense-percipient becomes aware of that correspondence and accommodates the sense-realm to the lowest extremity of its counterpart There, proceeding from the fire Intellectual to the fire here which becomes perceptible by its analogy with that of the higher sphere.

Matter, in the nature of things, is the furthest away, since of itself it has not even the lowest degree of shape.

As you can see, it goes around hills instead of through them or over them, and it stays down in the lowest spots along the way.

Part of what annoys me a bit about the unthinking assumption of a lot of people that collaboration automatically reduces the quality of the writing to the lowest common denominator, is that they overlook the obvious.

The lowest Greek, the dirtiest Jew, the vilest Russian, and the most treacherous Spaniard can be absorbed and assimilated into the social compact, but the Negro, because he is black, cannot enter into this compact.