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H. P. Blavatsky

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (Russian: Еле́на Петро́вна Блава́тская, Yelena Petrovna Blavatskaya; 12 August [O.S. 31 July] 1831 – 8 May 1891) was a Russian occultist, philosopher, and author who co-founded the Theosophical Society in 1875. She gained an international following as the leading theoretician of Theosophy, the esoteric religion that the society promoted.

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

Higher, Religion, Science, Truth

But, if the knowledge of the occult powers of nature opens the spiritual sight of man, enlarges his intellectual faculties, and leads him unerringly to a profounder veneration for the Creator, on the other hand ignorance, dogmatic narrow-mindedness, and a childish fear of looking to the bottom of things, invariably leads to fetish-worship and superstition.

Ignorance, Invariably, Men, Occult, Profounder, Spiritual

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

Barnacle, Change, Destruction, Ship, Ships

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.

Astral, Know, Light, Unseen, Vision

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

Dangerous, Individual, Mediocrity, Opinion, Public Opinion, Tyrants

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.

Done, Duty, Human, Idea, Ideas, Men

Donkeys have the courage to bray after the death of a lion. (not meant to glorify carnivorous practice).

Death, Donkey, Lions, Meant, Practice

People keep repeating that the main things are love and compassion. Certainly love and compassion are the main things, but it takes knowledge to make love and compassion fruitful. . . . It takes just a second to say 'love'. But to acquire knowledge for the well-being and blessing of humanity requires an eternity.

Blessing, Compassion, Love, Say, Spiritual

So little have thee first Christians (who despoiled the Jews of their Bible) understood the first four chapters of Genesis in their esoteric meaning, that they never perceived that not only was no sin intended in this disobedience, but that actually the 'Serpent' was 'the Lord God' himself, who, as the Ophis, the Logos, or the bearer of divine creative wisdom, taught mankind to become creators in their turn.

Become, Christian, Creative, Creators, Esoteric, God

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.

Age, Cruelest, Helpless, Struggle, Tyrants, Whirlpool

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

Attain, Humble, Humbler, Stills, Wisdom

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

God, Masonic, Masonry, Planet, Satan

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

Earth, Like, Ray, Rays, Seven, White

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?

Deity, Fashion, Ignorant Masses, Purely, Religious, Untrue

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

Education, Increases, Knowledge, Learning, Proportion

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.

Body, Past, Philosophy, Screen, Shadow, Trace

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

Absolutes, Essence, Manifestation, Periodical, Unknown

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

Greed, Leads, Loss, Patience, Power

The Universe is worked and guided from within outwards.

Guided, Outwards, Universe, Worked

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?

Busy, Forced, Men, Party, Perceived, Spiritual

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