Helena P Blavatsky Quotes & Sayings

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

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

Becoming is the mode of activity of the uncreate deity. — Helena Blavatsky

The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism. — Helena Blavatsky

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

The whole order of nature evinces a progressive march towards a higher life. — Helena Blavatsky

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

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

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

In fifty years time, the need for true psychics and conscious mediums (such as H.P.B., for instance [Helena Petrova Blavatsky]) will be very great if the Masters' plans are to be carried through to fruition, and the movement must be set on foot in preparation for the coming of Him for Whom all nations wait — Alice Bailey

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

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

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

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

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

Yet, the Universe is real enough to the conscious beings in it, which are as unreal as it is itself. — Helena 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

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

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

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

If coming events are said to cast their shadows before, past events cannot fall to leave their impress behind them. — Helena Blavatsky

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

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

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

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

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

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