H. P. Blavatsky Quotes

#1. 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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#2. 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.

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#3. Help Nature and work on with her; and Nature will regard thee as one of her creators ... she will lay bare before thy gaze the treasures hidden in the depths of her pure virgin bosom.

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

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#5. The mind is the slayer of the real, let the disciples slay the slayer.

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#6. There is no [ ... ] higher than the truth.

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#7. 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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#8. Matter is spirit at its lowest level. Spirit is matter at its highest level.

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#9. 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.

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

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

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

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#14. 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.

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#15. Is the scraping off of a barnacle the destruction of a ship?

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#16. Hast thou attuned thyself to the suffering of humanity, O candidate for light?

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

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#18. Ridicule is the deadliest weapon of the age ...

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#19. The man might have become a Power, but he preferred to remain an Ass.

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

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#21. Lucifer represents.. Life.. Thought.. Progress.. Civilization.. Liberty.. Independence.. Lucifer is the Logos.. the Serpent, the Savior.

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#22. It is Satan who is the God of our planet and the only God.

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

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#24. Strength your Soul against the stalk of the Ego, make it worth of the name of Diamond Soul.

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#25. 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.

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

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#27. We live in an age of prejudice, dissimulation and paradox, wherein, like dry leaves caught in a whirlpool, some of us are tossed helpless ... ever struggling between our honest convictions and fear of that cruelest of tyrants
PUBLIC OPINION.

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#28. 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.

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#29. Theosophy blesses the world; Theology is its curse.

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

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#31. 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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#32. Time is only an illusion produced by the succession of our states of consciousness as we travel through eternal duration, and it does not exist where no consciousness exists in which the illusion can be produced; but "lies asleep."

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#33. 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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#34. 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.

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

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#36. 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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#37. 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.

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

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#39. 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.

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#40. 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.

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#41. 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.

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#42. 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!

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