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Be humble, if thou would'st attain to wisdom. Be humbler still, when wisdom thou hast mastered.
There is no religion higher than Truth.
There is no [...] higher than the truth.
That cruelest of tyrants - public opinion.
Ridicule is the deadliest weapon of the age.
Theosophy blesses the world; Theology is its curse.
The Universe is worked and guided from within outwards.
Becoming is the mode of activity of the uncreate deity.
Is the scraping off of a barnacle the destruction of a ship?
Patience leads to power; but eagerness in greed leads to loss.
But - drive out prejudice with a pitch-fork it will ever return.
The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet.
Endurance is the free companion of Sorrow, and Patience her master.
The man might have become a Power, but he preferred to remain an Ass.
The mind is the slayer of the real, let the disciples slay the slayer.
Meditation has been defined as the cessation of active eternal thought.
Matter is spirit at its lowest level. Spirit is matter at its highest level.
The whole order of nature evinces a progressive march towards a higher life.
Theosophy is who Theosophy does, not thinks, not studies, not feels but does.
Hast thou attuned thyself to the suffering of humanity, O candidate for light?
The Universe is the periodical manifestation of this unknown Absolute Essence.
Civilization may progress, human nature will remain the same throughout all ages.
Knowledge increases in proportion to its use; that is, the more we teach the more we learn.
Strength your Soul against the stalk of the Ego, make it worth of the name of Diamond Soul.
From Architecture down to the Zodiac, every science worthy of the name was imported by the Greeks
Donkeys have the courage to bray after the death of a lion. (not meant to glorify carnivorous practice).
Theosophy, on earth, is like the white ray of the spectrum, and each religion only one of the seven colours.
If coming events are said to cast their shadows before, past events cannot fall to leave their impress behind them.
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.
The discoveries of modern science do not disagree with the oldest traditions which claim an incredible antiquity for our race.
The Christians were the first to make the existence of Satan a dogma of the church. What is the use in a Pope if there is no Devil ?
Dogma? Faith? These are the right and left pillars of every soul-crushing theology. Theosophists have no dogmas, exact no blind faith.
How long shall we Spiritualists be turned over like so many scapegoats to the unbelievers, by cheating mediums and speculating prophets?
Dogmas are the toys that amuse and can satisfy but unreasoning children. They are the offspring of human speculation and prejudiced fancy.
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!
Spiritualism is but a baby now, an unwelcome stranger, whom public opinion, like an unnatural foster mother, tries to crush out of existence.
And now it stands proven that Satan, or the Red Fiery Dragon, the 'Lord of Phosphorus,' and Lucifer, or 'Light-Bearer,' is in us: it is our Mind
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.
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.
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.
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.
Public Opinion, this invisible, intangible, omnipresent, despotic tyrant; this thousand-headed Hydra - the more dangerous for being composed of individual mediocrities...
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.
The human mind can hardly remain entirely free from bias, and decisive opinions are often formed before a thorough examination of a subject from all its aspects has been made.
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.
Help Nature and work on with her; and Nature will regard thee as one of her creators . . . she will lay bare before thy gaze the treasures hidden in the depths of her pure virgin bosom.
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.
The idea of passing one's whole life in moral idleness, and having one's hardest work and duty done by another-whether God or man-is most revolting to us, as it is most degrading to human dignity.
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.
