“The Network of Enlightenment watches over a world and guides it, tenderly. Not interfering in its natural course of evolution is our way.” WorldWayHumanityCoursesNaturalWatchesBuddhismEvolutionEnlightenmentGuidesInterfere Author:Frederick Lenz
“Other networks seek to interfere with the natural process of chaos. Enlightenment is chaos, complete beyond conception” HumanityProcessNaturalBuddhismEnlightenmentChaosConceptionInterfere Author:Frederick Lenz
“Buddhists don't feel that enlightenment is particularly unusual. We feel that it's the natural state. Enlightenment simply means perceiving life directly as it is in all of its infinite, ever changing wonder, in all of its varied, myriad states of mind or as pari-nirvana, or whatever.” FeelsMindMeanStatesNaturalWonderEnlightenmentInfiniteBuddhistState Of MindUnusual Author:Frederick Lenz
“There is something beyond the natural chaos that is woman or the chaos with implied order that is man, and that's the totality. To stay as we are, is not the issue, but to awake from the dream of life.” MenDreamOrderWomenNaturalIssuesEnlightenmentChaosAwakeTotalityImplied Author:Frederick Lenz
“Consider a very natural process, menstruation, and how the association has been created in which this process is dirty, degrading.” Has BeensProcessWomenNaturalEnlightenmentDirtyAssociationDegradingMenstruation Author:Frederick Lenz
“The liberals of the eighteenth century, guided by the ideas of natural law and of the Enlightenment, demanded for everyone equality of political and civil rights... Nothing, however, is as ill-founded as the assertion of the alleged equality of all members of the human race.” HumansIdeasLawPoliticalNaturalRaceRightsCenturyMembersEnlightenmentIllCivil RightsHuman RaceAssertionNatural Law Book:Liberalism: The Classical Tradition: The Economist Source: Liberalism: The Classical Tradition: The Economist
“Harvey , Galileo , Copernicus do not seem occult to us, but they did so to their contemporaries, hierophants of the mysteries of Natural Law, revealers of the secrets of a New Order of the Ages. After all, the movement eventually came to be called the Age of Enlightenment.” SeemsAgeLawOrderNaturalSecretMysteryMovementEnlightenmentOccultNatural LawHarveyCopernicusAge Of Enlightenment Book:Classics Revisited Source: Classics Revisited
“Most of the founding fathers, sympathetic with and influenced by the European Enlightenment, saw religion - natural religion, that is - as a potential good, but with equal clarity they saw the religions of existing institutions and religions based on a fixed scriptural revelation as meddlesome, wrong-headed and hopelessly obsolete.” FatherNaturalSawsAtheismEqualEnlightenmentInstitutionsPositive AtheismClarityFixedRevelationsFoundingSympatheticObsoleteMeddlesome Author:Edwin Gaustad
“If there were a reason for preferring the Christian religion to natural religion, it would be because the former offers us, on the nature of God and man, enlightenment that the latter lacks. Now, this is not at all the case; for Christianity, instead of clarifying, gives rise to an infinite multitude of obscurities and difficulties.” IfsMenGivingReasonWould BeChristianNaturalChristianityCasesAtheismOffersEnlightenmentDifficultyInfinitePositive AtheismFormerLatterMultitudesObscurityClarifying Author:Denis Diderot