Helena Petrovna Blavatsky Quotes

• The whole order of nature evinces a progressive march towards a higher life.

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  The Universe is the periodical manifestation of this unknown Absolute Essence.

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• Theosophy, on earth, is like the white ray of the spectrum, and each religion only one of the seven colours.

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• ‘Theosophy’ is the essence of all religion and of absolute truth, a drop of which only underlies every creed.

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• Yet, the Universe is real enough to the conscious beings in it, which are as unreal as it is itself.

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• We see that every external motion, act, gesture, whether voluntary or mechanical, organic or mental, is produced and preceded by internal feeling or emotion, will or volition, and thought or mind.

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• The Universe is worked and guided from within outwards.

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• The Secret Doctrine is the common property of the countless millions of men born under various climates, in times with which History refuses to deal, and to which esoteric teachings assign dates incompatible with the theories of Geology and Anthropology.

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• The Occultists, however, know that the traditions of Esoteric Philosophy must be the right ones, simply because they are the most logical, and reconcile every difficulty.

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• The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism.

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• It is, then, by those shadows of the hoary Past and their fantastic silhouettes on the external screen of every religion and philosophy, that we can, by checking them as we go along, and comparing them, trace out finally the body that produced them.

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• It is on the acceptance or rejection of the theory of the Unity of all in Nature, in its ultimate Essence, that mainly rests the belief or unbelief in the existence around us of other conscious beings besides the Spirits of the Dead.

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• If coming events are said to cast their shadows before, past events cannot fall to leave their impress behind them.

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• Everything that is, was, and will be, eternally IS, even the countless forms, which are finite and perishable only in their objective, not in their ideal Form.

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• Everything in the Universe, throughout all its kingdoms, is conscious: i.e., endowed with a consciousness of its own kind and on its own plane of perception.

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• Even in our day, science suspects beyond the Polar seas, at the very circle of the Arctic Pole, the existence of a sea which never freezes and a continent which is ever green.

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• But the first differentiation of its reflection in the manifested World is purely Spiritual, and the Beings generated in it are not endowed with a consciousness that has any relation to the one we conceive of.

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• Becoming is the mode of activity of the uncreate deity.

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• As no outward motion or change, when normal, in man’s external body can take place unless provoked by an inward impulse, given through one of the three functions named, so with the external or manifested Universe.

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Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (19)

Birth:	12th August, 1831
Death:	8th May, 1891
Nationality:	Russian
Profession:	Author, Philosopher

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Helena Petrovna Blavatsky was born in Yekaterinoslav, Russia. She was a Russian author and philosopher. In New York City, she co-founded the Theosophical Society with Olcott and William Quan Judge in 1875. She gained an international following as the leading theoretician of Theosophy, the esoteric movement that the society promoted. She wrote several books include: Isis Unveiled, From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan, The Secret Doctrine, The Voice of the Silence, The Key to Theosophy, Gems from the East, and Nightmare tales. Her Theosophical doctrines influenced the spread of Hindu and Buddhist ideas in the West as well as the development of Western esoteric currents like Ariosophy, Anthroposophy, and the New Age Movement.

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