Helena Petrovna Blavatsky Quotes & Sayings

A Hindu is a born mystic, and the luxuriant nature of his country has made him a zealous pantheist — Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

Flowing down upon his shoulders," and as "having — Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

Before the soul can see, the Harmony within must be attained, and fleshly eyes be rendered blind to all illusion. — Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

What writes history is the power of ideas. And every moment offers the potential to write something new. — Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

It is an occult law moreover, that no man can rise superior to his individual failings without lifting, be it ever so little, the whole body of which he is an integral part. In the same way no one can sin, nor suffer the effects of sin, alone. In reality, there is no such thing as 'separateness' and the nearest approach to that selfish state which the laws of life permit is in the intent or motive. — Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

When there were no churches, no creeds or sects, but when every man was a priest unto himself — Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

The Universe is worked and guided from within outwards. — Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

Theosophy is who Theosophy does, not thinks, not studies, not feels but does. — Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

Gently to hear, kindly to judge." - SHAKESPEARE. — Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

There is no higher religion than the truth. — Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

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

The end of man is an action and not a thought, though it were the noblest — Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

Whatever plane our consciousness may be acting in, both we and the things belonging to that plane are, for the time being, our only realities. As we rise in the scale of development we perceive that during the stages through which we have passed we mistook shadows for realities, and the upward progress of the Ego is a series of progressive awakenings, each advance bringing with it the idea that now, at last, we have reached "reality"; but only when we shall have reached the absolute Consciousness, and blended our own with it, shall we be free from the delusions produced by Maya [illusion]. — Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

Inaction in a deed of mercy becomes an action in a deadly sin. — Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

Man is a little world--a microcosm inside the great universe. Like a fetus, he is suspended, by all his three spirits, in the matrix of the macrocosmos; and while his terrestrial body is in constant sympathy with its parent earth, his astral soul lives in unison with the sidereal anima mundi. He is in it, as it is in him, for the world-pervading element fills all space, and is space itself, only shoreless and infinite. As to his third spirit, the divine, what is it but an infinitesimal ray, one of the countless radiations proceeding directly from the Highest Cause--the Spiritual Light of the World? This is the trinity of organic and inorganic nature--the spiritual and the physical, which are three in one, and of which Proclus says that 'The first monad is the Eternal God; the second, eternity; the third, the paradigm, or pattern of the universe;' the three constituting the Intelligible Triad. — Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

No man can swim unless he enters deep water. — Helena Petrovna Blavatsky