1. Transcendentalism All things are one in the Universal Mind

2. Man’s soul is identical with the Over-soul, or Universal Being…. Therefore: He has a divine nature—a spark of God within him.

3. Man has a spark of the divine within him…. Therefore…

4. Ralph Waldo Emerson --Father of American Transcendentalism “There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance and that imitation is suicide.” from “Self-Reliance”

5. Everything in man’s world is a microcosm of the universe: “The world globes itself in a drop of dew.” Therefore…

6. There is an essential unity in all things ordered by a Supreme Mind or Oversoul. Therefore…

7. We reconnect with the “oversoul” (God) in nature because nature is a manifestation of the spirit. Therefore…

8. Each person’s reality is the true reality and we decide our own fate. Therefore…

9. “Standing on the bare ground, -- my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space, -- all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball.”