Blavatsky's Quotes

#1. I recall having read, at the brothers' instance, Madame Blavatsky's Key to Theosophy. This book stimulated in me the desire to read books on Hinduism, and disabused me of the notion fostered by the missionaries that Hinduism was rife with superstition.

Mahatma Gandhi

#2. 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.

Helena Blavatsky

#3. What writes history is the power of ideas. And every moment offers the potential to write something new.

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

#4. 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.

Helena Blavatsky

#5. 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 Blavatsky

#6. 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."

H. P. Blavatsky

#7. 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 Blavatsky

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

H. P. Blavatsky

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

H. P. Blavatsky

#10. The Universe is worked and guided from within outwards.

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

#11. 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.

Helena Blavatsky

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

H. P. Blavatsky

#13. 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

#14. 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.

H. P. Blavatsky

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

H. P. Blavatsky

#16. 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.

Helena Blavatsky

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

Helena Blavatsky

#18. 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

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

H. P. Blavatsky

#20. 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.

Helena Blavatsky

#21. 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.

Helena Blavatsky

#22. To act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the tides. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other.

Helena Blavatsky

#23. Flowing down upon his shoulders," and as "having

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

#24. 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

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

Helena Blavatsky

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. 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

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

H. P. Blavatsky

#30. No man can swim unless he enters deep water.

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

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

Helena Blavatsky

#32. Inaction in a deed of mercy becomes an action in a deadly sin.

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

#33. Theosophy is who Theosophy does, not thinks, not studies, not feels but does.

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

#34. 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

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

H. P. Blavatsky

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

Helena Blavatsky

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

H. P. Blavatsky

#38. 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.

H. P. Blavatsky

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

H. P. Blavatsky

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

H. P. Blavatsky

#41. There is no higher religion than the truth.

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

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

H. P. Blavatsky

#43. 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

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

Helena Blavatsky

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

H. P. Blavatsky

#46. 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

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

H. P. Blavatsky

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

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

#49. The end of man is an action and not a thought, though it were the noblest

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

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

H. P. Blavatsky

#51. That was the trouble with formulating a system: what could you do but repeat it?

Peter Washington

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

H. P. Blavatsky

#53. Becoming is the mode of activity of the uncreate deity.

Helena Blavatsky

#54. 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.

Helena Blavatsky

#55. 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.

Helena Blavatsky

#56. 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.

H. P. Blavatsky

#57. 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.

H. P. Blavatsky

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

H. P. Blavatsky

#59. Gently to hear, kindly to judge." - SHAKESPEARE.

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

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

H. P. Blavatsky

#61. 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.

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

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

H. P. Blavatsky

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

H. P. Blavatsky

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

H. P. Blavatsky

#65. When there were no churches, no creeds or sects, but when every man was a priest unto himself

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

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

H. P. Blavatsky

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

H. P. Blavatsky

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

H. P. Blavatsky

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

H. P. Blavatsky

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

H. P. Blavatsky

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

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

#72. 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

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

H. P. Blavatsky

#74. 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

#75. Who can know the ending until the last word has been written? Everything might change with the last word.

Lauren Kate

#76. 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.

Helena Blavatsky