Frasi di Helena Blavatsky

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Helena Blavatsky

Data di nascita: 31. Luglio 1831
Data di morte: 26. Aprile 1891

Eléna Petróvna von Hahn, coniugata Blaváckij , fu una filosofa, teosofa russo-statunitense e medium, più nota con il nome anglicizzato di Helena Blavatsky, Madame Blavatsky o, ancora, con le iniziali del suo acronimo, HPB. Fondatrice della Società Teosofica, è autrice di testi esoterici quali Iside svelata e La dottrina segreta.

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Frasi Helena Blavatsky

„The Gnostics were the earliest Christians with anything like a regular theological system, and it is only too evident that it was Jesus who was made to fit their theology as Christos, and not their theology that was developed out of his sayings and doings. Their ancestors had maintained, before the Christian era, that the Great Serpent — Jupiter, the Dragon of Life, the Father and "Good Divinity," had glided into the couch of Semele, and now, the post-Christian Gnostics, with a very trifling change, applied the same fable to the man Jesus, and asserted that the same "Good Divinity," Saturn (Ilda-Baoth), had, in the shape of the Dragon of Life, glided over the cradle of the infant Mary.“

— Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
Chapter X

„Do not be afraid of your difficulties. Do not wish you could be in other circumstances than you are. For when you have made the best of an adversity, it becomes the stepping stone to a splendid opportunity.“

— Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

„Whatever plane our consciousness may be acting in, both we and the things belonging to that plane are, for the time being, our only realities. As we rise in the scale of development we perceive that during the stages through which we have passed we mistook shadows for realities, and the upward progress of the Ego is a series of progressive awakenings, each advance bringing with it the idea that now, at last, we have reached "reality"; but only when we shall have reached the absolute Consciousness, and blended our own with it, shall we be free from the delusions produced by Maya [illusion].“

— Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

„Before the soul can see, the Harmony within must be attained, and fleshly eyes be rendered blind to all illusion.“

— Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, The Voice of the Silence

„The Universe is worked and guided from within outwards.“

— Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

„Everything lives and perishes through magnetism; one thing affects another one, even at great distances, and its "congenitals" may be influenced to health and disease by the power of this sympathy, at any time, and notwithstanding the intervening space.“

— Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
Chapter VII

„According to the ancient doctrines, the soulless elemental spirits were evolved by the ceaseless motion inherent in the astral light. Light is force, and the latter is produced by the will. As this will proceeds from an intelligence which cannot err, for it has nothing of the material organs of human thought in it, being the superfine pure emanation of the highest divinity itself — (Plato's "Father") it proceeds from the beginning of time, according to immutable laws, to evolve the elementary fabric requisite for subsequent generations of what we term human races. All of the latter, whether belonging to this planet or to some other of the myriads in space, have their earthly bodies evolved in the matrix out of the bodies of a certain class of these elemental beings which have passed away in the invisible worlds.“

— Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
Chapter VII

„The discoveries of modern science do not disagree with the oldest traditions which claim an incredible antiquity for our race.“

— Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
Chapter I

„Maitreya is the secret name of the Fifth Buddha, and the Kalki Avatar of the Brahmins - the last Messiah who will come at the culmination of the Great Cycle.“

— Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
Secret Doctrine I, p. 384

„Evidently Proclus does not advocate here simply a superstition, but science; for notwithstanding that it is occult, and unknown to our scholars, who deny its possibilities, magic is still a science. It is firmly and solely based on the mysterious affinities existing between organic and inorganic bodies, the visible productions of the four kingdoms, and the invisible powers of the universe. That which science calls gravitation, the ancients and the mediaeval hermetists called magnetism, attraction, affinity. It is the universal law, which is understood by Plato and explained in Timaeus as the attraction of lesser bodies to larger ones, and of similar bodies to similar, the latter exhibiting a magnetic power rather than following the law of gravitation. The anti-Aristotelean formula that gravity causes all bodies to descend with equal rapidity, without reference to their weight, the difference being caused by some other unknown agency, would seem to point a great deal more forcibly to magnetism than to gravitation, the former attracting rather in virtue of the substance than of the weight. A thorough familiarity with the occult faculties of everything existing in nature, visible as well as invisible; their mutual relations, attractions, and repulsions; the cause of these, traced to the spiritual principle which pervades and animates all things; the ability to furnish the best conditions for this principle to manifest itself, in other words a profound and exhaustive knowledge of natural law — this was and is the basis of magic.“

— Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
Chapter VII

„"Tell me who it is who brings about the re-birth (the revolutio)?" is asked of the wise Hermes. "God's Son, the only man, through the will of God," is the answer of the "heathen." "God's son" is the immortal spirit assigned to every human being. It is this divine entity which is the "only man," for the casket which contains our soul, and the soul itself, are but half-entities, and without its overshadowing both body and astral soul, the two are but an animal duad. It requires a trinity to form the complete "man," and allow him to remain immortal at every "re-birth," or revolutio, throughout the subsequent and ascending spheres, every one of which brings him nearer to the refulgent realm of eternal and absolute light.“

— Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
Chapter IV

„"There is often greater martyrdom to live for the love of, whether man or an ideal, than to die" is a motto of the Mahatmas.“

— Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
Collected Writings, vol. IV, p. 603 (October 1889) http://www.katinkahesselink.net/blavatsky/articles/v4/y1883_092.htm

„There is no religion higher than truth.“

— Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
Motto of the Theosophical Society. See for instance: Blavatsky Collected Writings, Volume 6, p. 168 http://www.katinkahesselink.net/blavatsky/articles/v6/y1884_016.htm