As civilisation advances, the deities lessen in number, the divine powers become concentrated more and more in one Being, and God rules… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
The idea of reverence for God is transmitted from parent to child, it is educated into an abnormal development, and thus almost… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
No durable things are built on violent passion. Nature grows her plants in silence and in darkness, and only when they have… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
After death we live for some time in the astral world in the astral body used during our life on earth, and… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Nature is always lavish of her gifts even to the most insignificant forms. The butterflies and moths are richly dowered in this… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
One of the great advantages of cremation - apart from all sanitary conditions - lies in the swift restoration to Mother Nature… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Continents may break up, continents may emerge, but the human race is immortal in its origin and in its growth, and there… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
'Nature is conquered by obedience' - and her resistless energies are at our bidding, as soon as we, by knowledge, work with… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
The soul grows by reincarnation in bodies provided by nature, more complex, more powerful, as the soul unfolds greater and greater faculties.… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Celibacy is not natural to men or to women; all bodily needs require their legitimate satisfaction, and celibacy is a disregard of… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Beauty is no dead thing. It is the manifestation of God in nature. There is not one object in nature untouched by… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism. — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
The Self in you is the same as the Self Universal. Whatever powers are manifested throughout the world, those powers exist in germ, in… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
When we recognise that unity of all living things, then at once arises the question - how can we support this life of ours… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
In morals, theosophy builds its teachings on the unity, seeing in each form the expression of a common life, and therefore the fact that… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Never yet has a God been defined in terms which were not palpably self-contradictory and absurd; never yet has a God been described so… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
After a study of some forty years and more of the great religions of the world, I find none so perfect, none so scientific,… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
The human body is constantly undergoing a process of decay and of reconstruction. First builded into the astral form in the womb of the… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Sun-worship and pure forms of nature-worship were, in their day, noble religions, highly allegorical but full of profound truth and knowledge. — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a myth gives a story… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Every form, not being the whole, must, of necessity, be imperfect; less than the whole, it cannot be identical with the whole, and being… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
The divine life is the spirit in everything that exists, from the atom to the archangel; the grain of dust could not be were… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
