Quotations by HP Blavatsky

— There is no religion higher than Truth —

“The essence of Theosophy is the perfect harmonizing of the divine with the human in man, the adjustment of his god-like qualities and aspirations, and their sway over the terrestrial or animal passions in him. Kindness, absence of every ill feeling or selfishness, charity, goodwill to all beings, and perfect justice to others as to oneself, are its chief features. He who teaches Theosophy preaches the gospel of goodwill; and the converse of this is true also – he who preaches the gospel of goodwill, teaches Theosophy.”

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

Quotations from The Voice of the Silence:

Fragment I:

“The Mind is the great Slayer of the Real. Let the Disciple slay the Slayer.”

“Before that path is entered, thou must destroy thy lunar body, cleanse thy mind-body and make clean thy heart.”

“Desire nothing. Chafe not at Karma, nor at Nature’s changeless laws. But struggle only with the personal, the transitory, the evanescent and the perishable. Help Nature and work on with her; and Nature will regard thee as one of her creators and make obeisance.”

“Silence thy thoughts and fix thy whole attention on thy Master whom yet thou dost not see, but whom thou feelest.”

Fragment II:

“Search for the Paths. But, O Lanoo, be of clean heart before thou startest on thy journey. Before thou takest thy first step learn to discern the real from the false, the ever-fleeting from the everlasting. Learn above all to separate Head-learning from Soul-Wisdom, the ‘Eye’ from the ‘Heart’ doctrine.”

” ‘Great Sifter’ is the name of the ‘Heart Doctrine,’ O disciple.”

“The wheel of the good Law moves swiftly on. It grinds by night and day. The worthless husks it drives from out the golden grain, the refuse from the flour. The hand of Karma guides the wheel; the revolutions mark the beatings of the Karmic heart.”

“Sow kindly acts and thou shalt reap their fruition. Inaction in a deed of mercy becomes an action in a deadly sin.”

“Have patience, Candidate, as one who fears no failure, courts no success. Fix thy Soul’s gaze upon the star whose ray thou art, the flaming star that shines within the lightless depths of ever-being, the boundless fields of the Unknown.”

“To live to benefit mankind is the first step. To practice the six glorious virtues is the second.”

“The Selfish devotee lives to no purpose. The man who does not go through his appointed work in life— has lived in vain.

“Follow the wheel of life; follow the wheel of duty to race and kin, to friend and foe, and close thy mind to pleasures as to pain. Exhaust the law of Karmic retribution. Gain Siddhis for thy future birth.”

Fragment III:

“Prepare thyself, for thou wilt have to travel on alone. The Teacher can but point the way. The Path is one for all, the means to reach the goal must vary with the Pilgrims.”