Quotes from H. P. Blavatsky

Spiritualism is but a baby now, an unwelcome stranger, whom public opinion, like an unnatural foster mother, tries to crush out of existence.

The whole order of nature evinces a progressive march towards a higher life.

Who is the great man? He who is strongest in patience. He who patiently endures injury, and maintains a blameless life--he is a man indeed!

Endurance is the free companion of Sorrow, and Patience her master.

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.

Patience leads to power; but eagerness in greed leads to loss.

Hast thou attuned thyself to the suffering of humanity, O candidate for light?

Dogma? Faith? These are the right and left pillars of every soul-crushing theology. Theosophists have no dogmas, exact no blind faith.

Dogmas are the toys that amuse and can satisfy but unreasoning children. They are the offspring of human speculation and prejudiced fancy.

Knowledge increases in proportion to its use; that is, the more we teach the more we learn.

Lucifer represents life, though, progress, civilization, liberty, independence. Lucifer is the Logos, the Serpent, the Savior.

The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism.

There is no [...] higher than the truth.

From Architecture down to the Zodiac, every science worthy of the name was imported by the Greeks

Matter is spirit at its lowest level. Spirit is matter at its highest level.

Strength your Soul against the stalk of the Ego, make it worth of the name of Diamond Soul.

Reflect upon the defects of your character: thoroughly realize their evils and the transient pleasures they give you, and firmly will that you shall try your best not to yield to them the next time.

There is no religion higher than Truth.

We must prepare and study truth under every aspect, endeavoring to ignore nothing, if we do not wish to fall into the abyss of the unknown when the hour shall strike.

Be humble, if thou would'st attain to wisdom. Be humbler still, when wisdom thou hast mastered.

If thou would'st have that stream of hard-earn'd knowledge, of Wisdom heaven-born, remain sweet running waters, thou should'st not leave it to become a stagnant pond.

The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism.

The whole order of nature evinces a progressive march towards a higher life.

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.