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...
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Date of Birth12 August 1831
CountryRussian Federation
consciousness throughout
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.
external internal organic produced voluntary whether
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.
burning daring fire shall
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.
esoteric reconcile simply traditions
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.
absolute
The Universe is the periodical manifestation of this unknown Absolute Essence.
unreal
Yet, the Universe is real enough to the conscious beings in it, which are as unreal as it is itself.
countless eternally finite ideal perishable
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.
arctic beyond circle continent existence polar science suspects
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.