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Is the scraping off of a barnacle the destruction of a ship?

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Patience leads to power; but eagerness in greed leads to loss.

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

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The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet.

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

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
The mind is the slayer of the real, let the disciples slay the slayer.

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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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Civilization may progress, human nature will remain the same throughout all ages.

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

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By the radiant light of the universal magnetic ocean... electric waves bind the cosmos together.

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From Architecture down to the Zodiac, every science worthy of the name was imported by the Greeks

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

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

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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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"There is often greater martyrdom to live for the love of, whether man or an ideal, than to die" is a motto of the Mahatmas.

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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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The discoveries of modern science do not disagree with the oldest traditions which claim an incredible antiquity for our race.

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

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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?

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How long shall we Spiritualists be turned over like so many scapegoats to the unbelievers, by cheating mediums and speculating prophets?

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

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

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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

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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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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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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.

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