H. P. Blavatsky Quotes (38 Quotes)


    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.

    A creature of a more exalted kind was wanting yet, and therefore was designed Conscious of thought, of more capacious breast for empire formed and fit to rule the rest.

    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.

    Spirit is living, and life is spirit, and life and spirit produce all things, but they are essentially one and not two.

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


    If thou would'st have that stream of hard-earn'd knowledge, of Wisdom heaven-born, remain sweet running waters, thou should'st not leave it to become a stagnant pond.

    Shun praise. Praise leads to self-delusion. Thy body is not self, thy self is in itself without a body, and either praise or blame affects it not.

    This earth is but the dismal entrance leading to the twilight that precedes the valley of true light, that light which no wind can extinguish, that light which burns without a wick or fuel.

    The roots of faith rest in understanding, the synthetic principle of consciousness.

    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.

    When he has ceased to hear the many, he may discern the one - the inner sound which kills the outer.

    Reflect upon the defects of your character thoroughly realize their evils and the transient pleasures they give you, and firmly will that you shall try your best not to yield to them the next time.

    Be humble, if thou would'st attain to wisdom. Be humbler still, when wisdom thou hast mastered.

    Live neither in the present nor the future, but in the eternal. The giant weed (of evil) cannot flower there this blot upon existence is wiped out by the very atmosphere of eternal thought.

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

    The present is only a mathematical line which divides that part of eternal duration which we call the future, from that which we call the past.

    Let not the fierce sun dry one tear of pain before thyself hast wiped it from the sufferer's eye.

    Knowledge increases in proportion to its use -that is, the more we teach the more we learn.

    Thou shalt not separate thy being from being, and the rest, but merge the ocean in the deep, the drop within the ocean.

    Meditation has been defined as the cessation of active eternal thought.

    Sow kindly acts and thou shalt reap their fruition. Inaction in a deed of mercy becomes an action in a deadly sin.

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

    Our only true course is to let the motive for action be in the action itself, never in its reward not to be incited By the hope of the result, nor yet indulge a propensity for inertness.

    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.

    Before the soul can see, the harmony within must be attained, and fleshly eyes be rendered blind to all illusion.

    Fire is the most perfect and unadulterated reflection, in heaven as on Earth, of the one flame. It is life and death, the origin and the end of every material thing. It is divine substance.

    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.

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

    Becoming is the mode of activity of the uncreate deity.

    Desire nothing, chafe not at fate, nor at nature's changeless laws. But struggle only with the personal, the transitory, the evanescent and the perishable.

    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.

    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.

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

    The Universe is worked and guided from within outwards.

    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.

    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.

    Thou canst not travel on the path Before thou hast become that Path itself.

    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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