H. P. Blavatsky quotes

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

#Believe #Men #Spirit

The Universe is worked and guided from within outwards.
-- H. P. Blavatsky

#Universe

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.
-- H. P. Blavatsky

#Spiritual #Reflection #Soul

Who is the great man? He who is strongest in patience. He who patiently endures injury, and maintains a blameless life--he is a man indeed!
-- H. P. Blavatsky

#Patience #Men #Injury

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.
-- H. P. Blavatsky

#Ocean #Circles #Sea

Man is spiritual being -- a soul, in other words -- and that this soul takes on different bodies from life to life on earth to order at last to arrive at such perfect knowledge, through repeated experience, as to enable one to assume a body fit to be the dwelling-place of a Mahatma or perfected soul. Then, they say, that particular soul becomes a spiritual helper to mankind.
-- H. P. Blavatsky

#Spiritual #Men #Order

Patience leads to power; but eagerness in greed leads to loss.
-- H. P. Blavatsky

#Patience #Loss #Greed

Do not be afraid of your difficulties.Do not wish you could be in other circumstances than you are. For when you have made the best of an adversity, it becomes the stepping stone to a splendid opportunity.
-- H. P. Blavatsky

#Adversity #Opportunity #Wish

It is an occult law moreover, that no man can rise superior to his individual failings without lifting, be it ever so little, the whole body of which he is an integral part. In the same way no one can sin, nor suffer the effects of sin, alone. In reality, there is no such thing as 'separateness' and the nearest approach to that selfish state which the laws of life permit is in the intent or motive.
-- H. P. Blavatsky

#Selfish #Reality #Men

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.
-- H. P. Blavatsky

#Feelings #Mind #Gestures

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.
-- H. P. Blavatsky

#Teaching #Men #Secret

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.
-- H. P. Blavatsky

#Philosophy #Esoteric #Tradition

And now it stands proven that Satan, or the Red Fiery Dragon, the 'Lord of Phosphorus,' and Lucifer, or 'Light-Bearer,' is in us: it is our Mind
-- H. P. Blavatsky

#Light #Dragons #Mind

It is Satan who is the God of our planet and the only God.
-- H. P. Blavatsky

#Satan #Planets

There is no religion higher than Truth.
-- H. P. Blavatsky

#Higher

So little have thee first Christians (who despoiled the Jews of their Bible) understood the first four chapters of Genesis in their esoteric meaning, that they never perceived that not only was no sin intended in this disobedience, but that actually the 'Serpent' was 'the Lord God' himself, who, as the Ophis, the Logos, or the bearer of divine creative wisdom, taught mankind to become creators in their turn.
-- H. P. Blavatsky

#Christian #Creative #Four

The appearance and disappearance of the Universe are pictured as an outbreathing and inbreathing of the" Great Breath," which is eternal, and which, being Motion, is one of the three aspects of the Absolute - Abstract Space and Duration being the other two.
-- H. P. Blavatsky

#Two #Space #Duration

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.
-- H. P. Blavatsky

#Form #Finite

The essence of Theosophy is the perfect harmonizing of the divine with the human in man, the adjustment of his god-like qualities and aspirations, and their sway over the terrestrial or animal passions in him. Kindness, absence of every ill feeling or selfishness, charity, goodwill to all beings, and perfect justice to others as to oneself, are its chief features. He who teaches Theosophy preaches the gospel of goodwill; and the converse of this is true also — he who preaches the gospel of goodwill, teaches Theosophy.
-- H. P. Blavatsky

#Kindness #Passion #Men

Hast thou attuned thyself to the suffering of humanity, O candidate for light?
-- H. P. Blavatsky

#Light #Humanity #Suffering

This Law -- whether Conscious or Unconscious --predestines nothing and no one. It exists from and in Eternity, truly, for it is ETERNITY itself; and as such, since no act can be co-equal with eternity, it cannot be said to act, for it is ACTION itself...Karma creates nothing, nor does it design. It is man who plans and creates causes, and Karmic law adjusts the effects; which adjustment is not an act, but universal harmony, tending ever to resume its original position.
-- H. P. Blavatsky

#Karma #Men #Law

The idea of passing one's whole life in moral idleness, and having one's hardest work and duty done by another-whether God or man-is most revolting to us, as it is most degrading to human dignity.
-- H. P. Blavatsky

#Men #Ideas #Done

The wheel of the Good Law moves swiftly on. It grinds by night and day. The worthless husks it drives from out the golden grain, the refuse from the flour. The hand of fate guides the wheel; the revolutions mark the beatings of the heart of manifestation.
-- H. P. Blavatsky

#Moving #Heart #Fate

We cut these numerous windings in our destinies daily with our own hands, while we imagine that we are pursuing a track on the royal high road of respectability and duty, and then complain of those ways being so intricate and so dark. We stand bewildered before the mystery of our own making, and the riddles of life that we will not solve, and then accuse the great Sphinx of devouring us.
-- H. P. Blavatsky

#Cutting #Dark #Destiny

We must prepare and study truth under every aspect, endeavoring to ignore nothing, if we do not wish to fall into the abyss of the unknown when the hour shall strike.
-- H. P. Blavatsky

#Truth #Fall #Wish

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.
-- H. P. Blavatsky

#Character #Yield #Evil

The Universe is the periodical manifestation of this unknown Absolute Essence.
-- H. P. Blavatsky

#Essence #Manifestation #Universe

Lucifer represents.. Life.. Thought.. Progress.. Civilization.. Liberty.. Independence.. Lucifer is the Logos.. the Serpent, the Savior.
-- H. P. Blavatsky

#Civilization #Independence #Progress

Becoming is the mode of activity of the uncreate deity.
-- H. P. Blavatsky

#Becoming #Deities

The whole order of nature evinces a progressive march towards a higher life.
-- H. P. Blavatsky

#Order #March #Progressive

Whatever plane our consciousness may be acting in, both we and the things belonging to that plane are, for the time being, our only realities. As we rise in the scale of development we perceive that during the stages through which we have passed we mistook shadows for realities, and the upward progress of the Ego is a series of progressive awakenings, each advance bringing with it the idea that now, at last, we have reached "reality"; but only when we shall have reached the absolute Consciousness, and blended our own with it, shall we be free from the delusions produced by Maya [illusion].
-- H. P. Blavatsky

#Reality #Ideas #Ego

Endurance is the free companion of Sorrow, and Patience her master.
-- H. P. Blavatsky

#Patience #Sorrow #Endurance

The Christians were the first to make the existence of Satan a dogma of the church. What is the use in a Pope if there is no Devil ?
-- H. P. Blavatsky

#Christian #Devil #Church

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

#Educational #Use #Increase

The human mind can hardly remain entirely free from bias, and decisive opinions are often formed before a thorough examination of a subject from all its aspects has been made.
-- H. P. Blavatsky

#Mind #Examination #Opinion

From Architecture down to the Zodiac, every science worthy of the name was imported by the Greeks
-- H. P. Blavatsky

#Zodiac #Names #Greek

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

#Fall #Past #Shadow

Prepare, and be forewarned in time. If thou hast tried and failed, O dauntless fighter, yet lose not courage: fight on, and to the charge return again and yet again... Remember, thou that fightest for man's liberation, each failure is success, and each sincere attempt wins its rewards in time.
-- H. P. Blavatsky

#Life #Fighting #Men

All things that ever were, that are, or that will be, having; their record upon the astral light, or tablet of the unseen universe, the initiated adept, by using the vision of his own spirit, can know all that has been known or can be known.
-- H. P. Blavatsky

#Light #Vision #Unseen

The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire - the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale.
-- H. P. Blavatsky

#Heart #Fire #Light

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.
-- H. P. Blavatsky

#Acceptance #Essence #Rejection

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.
-- H. P. Blavatsky

#Philosophy #Past #Shadow

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

#Wisdom #Humble #Be Humble

Matter is spirit at its lowest level. Spirit is matter at its highest level.
-- H. P. Blavatsky

#Spiritual #Levels #Matter

Theosophy is who Theosophy does, not thinks, not studies, not feels but does.
-- H. P. Blavatsky

#Thinking #Doe #Study

People keep repeating that the main things are love and compassion. Certainly love and compassion are the main things, but it takes knowledge to make love and compassion fruitful. ... It takes just a second to say 'love'. But to acquire knowledge for the well-being and blessing of humanity requires an eternity.
-- H. P. Blavatsky

#Spiritual #Compassion #Blessing

To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs). So that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.
-- H. P. Blavatsky

#Change #Fall #Ignorance

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.
-- H. P. Blavatsky

#Perception #Kingdoms #Kind