Frasi di Helena Blavatsky

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

—  Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, libro The Voice of the Silence

Origine: The Voice of the Silence

„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

„What proofs other than negative have we that the animal is without a surviving, if not immortal, soul? On strictly scientific grounds we can adduce as many arguments pro as contra. To express it clearer, neither man nor animal can offer either proof or disproof of the survival of their souls after death. And from the point of view of scientific experience, it is impossible to bring that which has no objective existence under the cognizance of any exact law of science.“

—  Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, libro Isis Unveiled

Origine: Isis Unveiled (1877), Volume I, Chapter XII

„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

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

—  Helena Petrovna 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, libro Isis Unveiled

Origine: Isis Unveiled (1877), Volume II, Chapter X

„Thus, what with several generations of most active Church Fathers ever working at the destruction of old documents and the preparation of new passages to be interpolated in those which happened to survive, there remains of the Gnostics -- the legitimate offspring of the  Archaic Wisdom-religion -- but a few unrecognizable shreds.“

—  Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, libro The Key to Theosophy

The Key to Theosophy (1889)

„Valuing freedom of thought above all things as the only way of reaching at some future time that Wisdom, of which every Theosophist ought to be enamored, we recognize the right to the same freedom in our foes as in our friends.“

—  Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, libro The Key to Theosophy

The Key to Theosophy (1889)

„This is the age which, although proclaimed as one of physical and moral freedom, is in truth the age of the most ferocious moral and mental slavery, the like of which was never known before.“

—  Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, libro The Key to Theosophy

The Key to Theosophy (1889)

„Because it has Societies for the prevention of physical cruelty to animals,and none with the object of preventing the moral cruelty practiced on human beings. Because it encourages, legally and tacitly, vice under every form, from the sale of whiskey down to forced prostitution and theft brought on by starvation wages...“

—  Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, libro The Key to Theosophy

The Key to Theosophy (1889)

„Through its teaching, through the philosophy which it has rendered accessible and intelligible to the modern mind, the West will learn to understand and appreciate the East at its true value. Further, the development of the psychic powers and faculties, the premonitory symptoms of which are already visible in America, will proceed healthily and normally.“

—  Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, libro The Key to Theosophy

The Key to Theosophy (1889)

„The Society will live on into and through the twentieth century. It will gradually leaven and permeate the great mass of thinking and intelligent people with its large-minded and noble ideas of Religion, Duty, and Philanthropy. Slowly but surely it will burst asunder the iron fetters of creeds and dogmas, of social and caste prejudices; it will break down racial and national antipathies and barriers, and will open the way to the practical realization of the Brotherhood of all men.“

—  Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, libro The Key to Theosophy

The Key to Theosophy (1889)

„We hold that a good book which gives people food for thought, which strengthens and clears their minds, and enables them to grasp truths which they have dimly felt but could not formulate—we hold that such a book does a real, substantial good.“

—  Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, libro The Key to Theosophy

The Key to Theosophy (1889)

„We have to contend against... the hatred of the Spiritualists... the constant opposition of the clergy of all denominations... especially the relentless hatred and persecution of the missionaries in India.“

—  Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, libro The Key to Theosophy

The Key to Theosophy (1889)

„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

„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

„Every one of the numberless religions and religious sects views the Deity after its own fashion; and, fathering on the unknown its own speculations, it enforces these purely human outgrowths of overheated imagination on the ignorant masses, and calls them "revelation." As the dogmas of every religion and sect often differ radically, they cannot be true. And if untrue, what are they?“

—  Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, libro Isis Unveiled

Origine: Isis Unveiled (1877), Volume II, Chapter II

„The possible truths, hazily perceived in the world of abstraction, like those inferred from observation and experiment in the world of matter, are forced upon the profane multitudes, too busy to think for themselves, under the form of Divine revelation and scientific authority. But the same question stands open from the days of Socrates and Pilate down to our own age of wholesale negation: is there such a thing as absolute truth in the hands of any one party or man? Reason answers, "there cannot be." There is no room for absolute truth upon any subject whatsoever, in a world as finite and conditioned as man is himself. But there are relative truths, and we have to make the best we can of them.“

—  Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

Lucifer http://www.katinkahesselink.net/squote/l37.html (February 1888)

„Nothing of that which is conducive to help man, collectively or individually, to live — not "happily" — but less unhappily in this world, ought to be indifferent to the Theosophist-Occultist. It is no concern of his whether his help benefits a man in his worldly or spiritual progress; his first duty is to be ever ready to help if he can, without stopping to philosophize.“

—  Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

Collected Writings, vol. XI, p. 465 (October 1889) http://www.katinkahesselink.net/blavatsky/articles/v11/y1889_065.htm