Nothing of that which is conducive to help man, collectively or individually, to live not "happily" but less unhappily in this world,… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
The exercise of magical power is the exercise of natural powers, but superior to the ordinary functions of Nature. A miracle is… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
Theosophy, on earth, is like the white ray of the spectrum, and each religion only one of the seven colours. — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
Spiritualism is but a baby now, an unwelcome stranger, whom public opinion, like an unnatural foster mother, tries to crush out of… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
Dogma? Faith? These are the right and left pillars of every soul-crushing theology. Theosophists have no dogmas, exact no blind faith. — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
The world is not prepared yet to understand the philosophy of Occult Sciences - let them assure themselves first of all that… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
How long shall we Spiritualists be turned over like so many scapegoats to the unbelievers, by cheating mediums and speculating prophets? — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
Every one of the numberless religions and religious sects views the Deity after its own fashion; and, fathering on the unknown its… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
But, if the knowledge of the occult powers of nature opens the spiritual sight of man, enlarges his intellectual faculties, and leads… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
Dogmas are the toys that amuse and can satisfy but unreasoning children. They are the offspring of human speculation and prejudiced fancy. — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
Little do the devout worshippers of the Vatican suspect, when they lift up their eyes in mute adoration upon the head of… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
Man is spiritual being -- a soul, in other words -- and that this soul takes on different bodies from life to… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
We live in an age of prejudice, dissimulation and paradox, wherein, like dry leaves caught in a whirlpool, some of us are tossed helpless… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire - the… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
"True science has no belief," says Dr. Fenwick, in Bulwer-Lytton's 'Strange Story;' "true science knows but three states of mind: denial, conviction, and the… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
The idea of passing one's whole life in moral idleness, and having one's hardest work and duty done by another-whether God or man-is most… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
Be humble, if thou would'st attain to wisdom. Be humbler still, when wisdom thou hast mastered. — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
From Architecture down to the Zodiac, every science worthy of the name was imported by the Greeks — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
Endurance is the free companion of Sorrow, and Patience her master. — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
I speak "with absolute certainty" only so far as my own personal belief is concerned. Those who have not the same warrant for their… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
Nothing of that which is conducive to help man, collectively or individually, to live not "happily" but less unhappily in this world, ought to… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
Whatever plane our consciousness may be acting in, both we and the things belonging to that plane are, for the time being, our only… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image