The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. H. P. Blavatsky More Quotes by H. P. Blavatsky More Quotes From H. P. Blavatsky 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 soul reflection spiritual Becoming is the mode of activity of the uncreate deity. H. P. Blavatsky activity deities becoming 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 examination opinion mind 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? H. P. Blavatsky fashion religious views 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. H. P. Blavatsky progress spiritual men If coming events are said to cast their shadows before, past events cannot fall to leave their impress behind them. H. P. Blavatsky shadow past fall The discoveries of modern science do not disagree with the oldest traditions which claim an incredible antiquity for our race. H. P. Blavatsky incredibles race discovery Strength your Soul against the stalk of the Ego, make it worth of the name of Diamond Soul. H. P. Blavatsky ego soul names From Architecture down to the Zodiac, every science worthy of the name was imported by the Greeks H. P. Blavatsky zodiac greek names 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 done men ideas 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 fate heart moving But - drive out prejudice with a pitch-fork it will ever return. H. P. Blavatsky forks prejudice return 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 running sweet teacher 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 rejection essence acceptance 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 secret men That cruelest of tyrants - public opinion. H. P. Blavatsky public-opinion tyrants opinion 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 finite objectivity form The possible truths, hazily perceived in the world of abstraction, like those inferred from observation and experiment in the world of matter, are forced upon the profane multitudes, too busy to think for themselves, under the form of Divine revelation and scientific authority. But the same question stands open from the days of Socrates and Pilate down to our own age of wholesale negation: is there such a thing as absolute truth in the hands of any one party or man? H. P. Blavatsky party spiritual men 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"! H. P. Blavatsky would-be doe believe The Universe is the periodical manifestation of this unknown Absolute Essence. H. P. Blavatsky manifestation absolutes essence
