Helena Petrovna Blavatsky Quotes

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But - drive out prejudice with a pitch-fork it will ever return.

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
Every one of the numberless religions and religious sects views the Deity after its own fashion; and, fathering on the unknown its own speculations, it enforces these purely human outgrowths of overheated imagination on the ignorant masses, and calls them "revelation." As the dogmas of every religion and sect often differ radically, they cannot be true. And if untrue, what are they?

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
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.

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
But, if the knowledge of the occult powers of nature opens the spiritual sight of man, enlarges his intellectual faculties, and leads him unerringly to a profounder veneration for the Creator, on the other hand ignorance, dogmatic narrow-mindedness, and a childish fear of looking to the bottom of things, invariably leads to fetish-worship and superstition.

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
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.

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
Public Opinion, this invisible, intangible, omnipresent, despotic tyrant; this thousand-headed Hydra - the more dangerous for being composed of individual mediocrities...

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
The world is not prepared yet to understand the philosophy of Occult Sciences - let them assure themselves first of all that there are beings in an invisible world, whether 'Spirits' of the dead or Elementals; and that there are hidden powers in man, which are capable of making a God of him on earth.

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
A Hindu is a born mystic, and the luxuriant nature of his country has made him a zealous pantheist

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
I have pledged my word to help people on to truth while living and — will keep my word. Let them abuse and revile me. Let some call me a medium, and a Spiritualist, and others an imposter. The day will come when posterity will learn to know me better.

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
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.

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
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.

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
Nothing of that which is conducive to help man, collectively or individually, to live — not "happily" — but less unhappily in this world, ought to be indifferent to the Theosophist-Occultist. It is no concern of his whether his help benefits a man in his worldly or spiritual progress; his first duty is to be ever ready to help if he can, without stopping to philosophize.

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

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
Dogmas are the toys that amuse and can satisfy but unreasoning children. They are the offspring of human speculation and prejudiced fancy.

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
I speak "with absolute certainty" only so far as my own personal belief is concerned. Those who have not the same warrant for their belief as I have, would be very credulous and foolish to accept it on blind faith. Nor does the writer believe any more than her correspondent and his friends in any "authority" let alone "divine revelation"!

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
Spiritualism is but a baby now, an unwelcome stranger, whom public opinion, like an unnatural foster mother, tries to crush out of existence.

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
Dogma? Faith? These are the right and left pillars of every soul-crushing theology. Theosophists have no dogmas, exact no blind faith.

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
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.

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
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?

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
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!

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
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.

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
The ass of Balaam had at least the faculty of perceiving spirits, while some of those who bray in our academies and hospitals show no evidence of its possession. Sad degeneration of species!

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
Is the scraping off of a barnacle the destruction of a ship?

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
Endurance is the free companion of Sorrow, and Patience her master.

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
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.

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
Patience leads to power; but eagerness in greed leads to loss.

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
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

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

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
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.

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
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.

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky