Isis Unveiled Quotes

“Man is a little world--a microcosm inside the great universe. Like a fetus, he is suspended, by all his three spirits, in the matrix of the macrocosmos; and while his terrestrial body is in constant sympathy with its parent earth, his astral soul lives in unison with the sidereal anima mundi. He is in it, as it is in him, for the world-pervading element fills all space, and is space itself, only shoreless and infinite. As to his third spirit, the divine, what is it but an infinitesimal ray, one of the countless radiations proceeding directly from the Highest Cause--the Spiritual Light of the World? This is the trinity of organic and inorganic nature--the spiritual and the physical, which are three in one, and of which Proclus says that 'The first monad is the Eternal God; the second, eternity; the third, the paradigm, or pattern of the universe;' the three constituting the Intelligible Triad.”
― Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Isis Unveiled

“REALITY in an illusionary universe of ever-passing forms.”
― Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Isis Unveiled: Both Volumes - A Master-Key to the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Science and Theology

“The Kalmucks and some tribes of Siberia also describe in their legends earlier creations than our present race. These beings, they say, were possessed of almost boundless knowledge, and in their audacity even threatened rebellion against the Great Chief Spirit. To punish their presumption and humble them, he imprisoned them in bodies, and so shut in their senses. From these they can escape but through long repentance, self-purification, and development. Their Shamans, they think, occasionally enjoy the divine powers originally possessed by all human beings.”
― Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Isis Unveiled: Vol. I & II

“A flower blossoms; then withers and dies. It leaves a fragrance behind, which, long after its delicate petals are but a little dust, still lingers in the air. Our material sense may not be cognizant of it, but it nevertheless exists. Let a note be struck on an instrument, and the faintest sound produces an eternal echo. A disturbance is created on the invisible waves of the shoreless ocean of space, and the vibration is never wholly lost.”
― Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Isis Unveiled (Vol.1&2): A Master-Key to the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Science and Theology

“Apollonius and Iamblichus held that it was not "in the knowledge of things without, but in the perfection of the soul within, that lies the empire of man, aspiring to be more than men.”
― Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Isis Unveiled (Vol.1&2): A Master-Key to the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Science and Theology

“The will,” says Van Helmont, “is the first of all powers. For through the will of the Creator all things were made and put in motion.”
― Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Isis Unveiled. Illustrated

“Schopenhauer’s doctrine is that the universe is but the manifestation of the will.”
― Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Isis Unveiled. Illustrated

“What is this something which thinks and even speaks but yet is not human; that is impalpable and yet not a disembodied spirit; that simulates affection, passion, remorse, fear, joy, but yet feels neither? What is this canting creature which rejoices in cheating the truthful inquirer and mocking at sacred human feeling?”
― Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Isis Unveiled. Illustrated

“But why should the operations of nature be changed? There may be a deeper philosophy than we dream of — a philosophy that discovers the secrets of nature, but does not alter, by penetrating them, its course.” BULWER”
― Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Isis Unveiled. Illustrated

“Terra legit carnem tumulum circumvolet umbra, Orcus habet manes, spiritus astra petit,” says Ovid, speaking of the threefold constituents of souls.”
― Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Isis Unveiled. Illustrated

“Human nature is like universal nature in its abhorrence of a vacuum. It feels an intuitional yearning for a Supreme Power. Without a God, the cosmos would seem to it but like a soulless corpse.”
― Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Isis Unveiled. Illustrated

“ex nihilo nihil fit.”
― H.P. Blavatsky, Isis Unveiled. Illustrated

“Ought not one who undertakes to edit another’s works at least understand what his author means?”
― H.P. Blavatsky, Isis Unveiled. Illustrated

“Unless its growth is arrested, it may become our master.”
― H.P. Blavatsky, Isis Unveiled. Illustrated

“Magic is the philosophy of alchemy,”
― H.P. Blavatsky, Isis Unveiled. Illustrated

“anima mundi,”
― H.P. Blavatsky, Isis Unveiled. Illustrated

“ALCHEMISTS — From Al and Chemi, fire, or the god and patriarch, Kham, also, the name of Egypt. The Rosicrucians of the middle ages, such as Robertus de Fluctibus (Robert Fludd), Paracelsus, Thomas Vaughan (Eugenius Philalethes), Van Helmont, and others, were all alchemists, who sought for the hidden spirit in every inorganic matter.”
― H.P. Blavatsky, Isis Unveiled. Illustrated

“The clearer the mirror, the brighter will be the divine image.”
― H.P. Blavatsky, Isis Unveiled. Illustrated

“Haec murus aeneus esto: nil conscire sibi, nulla pallascere culpa.”
― Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Isis Unveiled: Both Volumes - A Master-Key to the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Science and Theology

“But it is in the denial of the boundless and endless Entity, possessor of that invisible Will which we for lack of a better term call GOD, that lies the powerlessness of every materialistic science to explain the occult phenomena. It is in the rejection a priori of everything which might force them to cross the boundary of exact science and step into the domain of psychological, or, if we prefer, metaphysical physiology, that we find the secret cause of their discomfiture by the manifestations, and their absurd theories to account for them.”
― Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Isis Unveiled (Vol.1&2): A Master-Key to the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Science and Theology

“The disputants are battling about mere words. Call the phenomena force, energy, electricity or magnetism, will, or spirit-power, it will ever be the partial manifestation of the soul, whether disembodied or imprisoned for a while in its body--of a portion of that intelligent, omnipotent, and individual WILL, pervading all nature, and known, through the insufficiency of human language to express correctly psychological images, as--GOD.”
― Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Isis Unveiled (Vol.1&2): A Master-Key to the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Science and Theology

“When the arc attained a certain point which brought it parallel with the fixed line of our terrestrial plane, the man was furnished by nature with "coats of skin," and the Lord God "clothed them.”
― Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Isis Unveiled (Vol.1&2): A Master-Key to the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Science and Theology

“Thus the Hindu soma is mystically, and in all respects the same that the Eucharistic supper is to the Christian.”
― Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Isis Unveiled (Vol.1&2): A Master-Key to the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Science and Theology

“According to the exoteric explanation the soma is a plant, but, at the same time it is an angel. It forcibly connects the inner, highest "spirit" of man, which spirit is an angel like the mystical soma, with his "irrational soul," or astral body, and thus united by the power of the magic drink, they soar together above physical nature, and participate during life in the beatitude and ineffable glories of Heaven.”
― Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Isis Unveiled (Vol.1&2): A Master-Key to the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Science and Theology

“The modern fakirs, as well as the ancient gymnosophists, unite themselves with their Âtman and the Deity by remaining motionless in contemplation and concentrating their whole thought on their navel.”
― Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Isis Unveiled (Vol.1&2): A Master-Key to the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Science and Theology

“Every nation had its Mysteries and hierophants. Even the Jews had their Peter — Tanaïm or Rabbin, like Hillel, Akiba, and other famous kabalists, who alone could impart the awful knowledge contained in the Merkaba. In India, there was in ancient times one, and now there are several hierophants scattered about the country, attached to the principal pagodas, who are known as the Brahma-âtmas. In Thibet the chief hierophant is the Dalay, or Taley-Lama of Lha-ssa. Among Christian nations, the Catholics alone have preserved this "heathen" custom, in the person of their Pope, albeit they have sadly disfigured its majesty and the dignity of the sacred office.”
― Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Isis Unveiled (Vol.1&2): A Master-Key to the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Science and Theology

“Paracelsus named it the sidereal light, taking the term from the Latin. He regarded the starry host (our earth included) as the condensed portions of the astral light which "fell down into generation and matter," but whose magnetic or spiritual emanations kept constantly a never-ceasing intercommunication between themselves and the parent-fount of all — the astral light.”
― Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Isis Unveiled (Vol.1&2): A Master-Key to the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Science and Theology

“NO GOD, NO SOUL? Dreadful, annihilating thought! The maddening nightmare of a lunatic — Atheist; presenting before his fevered vision, a hideous, ceaseless procession of sparks of cosmic matter created by no one; self-appearing, self-existent, and self-developing; this Self no Self, for it is nothing and nobody; floating onward from nowhence, it is propelled by no Cause, for there is none, and it rushes nowhither. And this in a circle of Eternity blind, inert, and — CAUSELESS.”
― Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Isis Unveiled (Vol.1&2): A Master-Key to the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Science and Theology

“The world is, then, through all its departments, a living arithmetic in its development, a realized geometry in its repose.”
― Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Isis Unveiled (Vol.1&2): A Master-Key to the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Science and Theology

“The mercenaries and parasites of the Press, who prostitute its more than royal power, and dishonor a noble profession, will find it easy to mock at things too wonderful for them to understand; for to them the price of a paragraph is more than the value of sincerity.”
― Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Isis Unveiled (Vol.1&2): A Master-Key to the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Science and Theology