The Universe is worked and guided from within outwards. Helena Blavatsky More Quotes by Helena Blavatsky More Quotes From Helena Blavatsky 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 traditions right know philosophy 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 man ignorance depression time If coming events are said to cast their shadows before, past events cannot fall to leave their impress behind them. Helena Blavatsky shadows impress past fall 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 born secret men history 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 shadows body past religion The Universe is the periodical manifestation of this unknown Absolute Essence. Helena Blavatsky absolute unknown universe essence 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 dead unity nature acceptance 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 will feeling thought mind 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 light fire path heart The whole order of nature evinces a progressive march towards a higher life. Helena Blavatsky march higher nature life Yet, the Universe is real enough to the conscious beings in it, which are as unreal as it is itself. Helena Blavatsky which universe real enough The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism. Helena Blavatsky well nature men science 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 first reflection spiritual world 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 day green sea science 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 own everything universe perception 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 place man universe change Becoming is the mode of activity of the uncreate deity. Helena Blavatsky deity mode activity becoming 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 ideal only will everything
