Helena Blavatsky
Helena Blavatsky
Helena Petrovna Blavatskywas an occultist, spirit medium, and author who co-founded the Theosophical Society in 1875. She gained an international following as the leading theoretician of Theosophy, the esoteric movement that the Society promoted...
NationalityRussian
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Date of Birth12 August 1831
CountryRussian Federation
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Yet, the Universe is real enough to the conscious beings in it, which are as unreal as it is itself.
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The Universe is the periodical manifestation of this unknown Absolute Essence.
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The whole order of nature evinces a progressive march towards a higher life.
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Becoming is the mode of activity of the uncreate deity.
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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.
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If coming events are said to cast their shadows before, past events cannot fall to leave their impress behind them.
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The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism.
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The Universe is worked and guided from within outwards.
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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.
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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.