FOUNDATION PRINCIPLES
The Religious Society of Friends is a religion with its origins from England during a time when Kings, Popes and Landlords ruled society. This religion has no creed, rituals or liturgy but is held together with, what can be called, principles or Precepts and testimonies.
Each meeting house joins with other meetings in the same area to form a Yearly Meeting and they publish a book called “Faith and Practice”. In there are advices’ and governing rules the meetinghouse’s follow.
We only mentioned a few.
To learn more, go to the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting website
The Inward Light.
George Fox’s message emphasized that a measure of the Light of Christ is present like a tiny seed within each person, needing careful attention and cultivation. In most souls, the seed is chocked by an overabundance of worldly pursuits and desires or covered over by erroneous beliefs and practices.
‘Our life is Love’ by Marcelle Martin pg 29 2016
Universality of Grace
Now, Friends, deal plainly with yourselves, and let the eternal light search you… for this will deal plainly with you; it will rip you up, and lay you open… naked and bare before the lord god from whom you can not hide yourselves… therefore give over the deceiving of your souls.
Margret Fell, 1656
Personal Transformation
Transformation .. refers to the work of God within us when we open our hearts and lives in this listening mode and are mysteriously, profoundly changed in ways in which we might not be capable of changing ourselves. [Quaker transformation] emphasize the ongoing process rather than falsely imply the endpoint…continuing changes of heart and life-style, deepening understanding, right up to the final chapters of people’s lives.
“Listening Spirituality-Volume 1” by Patricia Loring pg 4, 1997
