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.
beings conceive consciousness manifested purely relation
But the first differentiation of its reflection in the manifested World is purely Spiritual, and the Beings generated in it are not endowed with a consciousness that has any relation to the one we conceive of.
beings belief besides conscious existence mainly nature rejection rests spirits theory ultimate unbelief
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.
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.
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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.
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.
worked
The Universe is worked and guided from within outwards.
believing chief difficulty divine men nature prevents science spirits
The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism.
behind cannot cast coming events impress leave
If coming events are said to cast their shadows before, past events cannot fall to leave their impress behind them.
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.
mode
Becoming is the mode of activity of the uncreate deity.
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.