It is, then, by those shadows of the hoary Past and their fantastic silhouettes on the external screen … - H. P. Blavatsky

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Better to lose a book to a child, than to lose a child to illiteracy.

H. P. Blavatsky

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.

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

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