universal mind

universal mind

1. The union of all individual consciousness.
   • 1885, Warren Felt Evans, The Primitive Mind-cure, page 83:

     It is a doctrine taught in the ancient Hermetic philosophy, and the esoteric science of the East, that there is a Universal Mind. It is enough for our present purpose to say, that this Mind connects all individual minds in a state of sympathy.

   • 1988, Troy Wilson Organ, The Self in Its Worlds: East and West, page 17:

     The discovery of the Universal Mind is a possibility for every human being; but as long as one clings to the illusion of individuality, to particularizing, and to dichotomizing, the discovery will never be made.

   • 1995, Lawrence Allen Fowler, Theory of Creative Thought, page 79:

     THE INDIVIDUAL'S DEVELOPMENT as the specializing portion of universal mind will depend entirely upon his own conception of his relation to it.

2. (metaphysics) an underlying essence or consciousness in the universe
   • 1958, Pakistan Philosophical Congress. Session, Proceedings, page 208:

     This brings in the 'universal mind' and idealism hinges on the recognition of a universal mind in which all things exist .

   • 2003, John Davidson, A Treasury of Mystic Terms, page 111:

     If God, the divine Source, is understood as Light, then the universal mind is that which divides that Light into myriad forms and patterns in time and space.

   • 2006, Anis Obeid, Anis Ubayd, The Druze and Their Faith in Tawhid, page 138:

     The universal mind is the primary agent in the process of Tawhid, directed by and functioning at the pleasure of the Creator.

   • 2018, Dawson Church, Mind to Matter, page 282:

     The material reality you create when one with the universal mind is completely different from the material reality you create when cut off from universal mind. You think these thoughts in alignment with universal mind and they become things in alignment with universal mind.

3. God
   • 1787, Richard Price, A Review of the Principal Questions in Morals‎, page 262:

     Is it reasonable to give up the wisdom and righteousness of the universal mind, to contradict our clearest notions of things, and to acknowledge errors in the administration of the Deity, notwithstanding innumerable appearances in the frame of the world of his infinite power and perfection, rather than receive a plain, easy, and natural supposition, which is suggested to us in innumerable ways, which mankind in all ages have received, and which is agreeable to all our best sentiments and wishes?

   • 1807, Johann Gottfried Eichhorn, “Eichhorn's Introduction to the New Testament”, in The Critical Review of Annals of Literature‎, volume X, number V, London, page 450:

     The old saying that all is not gold which glitters, is true in respect to most of the prevailing systems of christianity in which the outside glitter and superficial tinsel will be found the device of man, while craft has cast a veil over that which is really the work of God. The web of mystery and the gewgaw of ceremony have been employed to obscure the moral lustre of the gospel. The grovelling wit of man has been substituted for the unspotted irradiations of the universal mind.

   • 1965, Muriel Noyes Gillchrest, The Power of Universal Mind, page 196:

     The Mind, which is God, is pushing out into what man calls his mind.Our power to know comes from this Universal mind.