The Secret Doctrine Quotes

“When there were no churches, no creeds or sects, but when every man was a priest unto himself”
― Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine

“Error runs down an inclined plane, while Truth has to laboriously climb its way up hill.”
― Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine

“Gently to hear, kindly to judge."— SHAKESPEARE.”
― Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine

“knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men, Wisdom in minds attentive to their own....”
― Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine:THE SYNTHESIS OF SCIENCE, RELIGION, AND PHILOSOPHY

“Beyond the Western Tsaydam, in the solitary passes of Kuen-lun there are several such hiding-places. Along the ridge of Altyn-tag, whose soil no European foot has ever trodden so far, there exists a certain hamlet, lost in a deep gorge. It is a small cluster of houses, a hamlet rather than a monastery, with a poor-looking temple in it, and one old Lama, a hermit, living near by to watch it. Pilgrims say that the subterranean galleries and halls under it contain a collection of books, the number of which, according to the accounts given, is too large to find room even in the British Museum.”
― Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine:THE SYNTHESIS OF SCIENCE, RELIGION, AND PHILOSOPHY

“A perfeição, para ser tal, tem que sair da imperfeição, o incorruptível tem que desenvolver-se do corruptível, tendo esse último como sua base, veículo e contraste. Luz Absoluta é Obscuridade absoluta, e vice-versa. O Bem e o Mal são gêmeos; nenhum dos dois existe 'per se', pois cada um tem que ser engendrado e criado pelo outro afim de vir a existência. Ambos têm que ser conhecidos e apreciados antes de ser objeto de percepção, daí que a na mente mortal tenham de estar separados.”
― Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine

“A humanidade - pelo menos em sua maioria - detesta refletir, mesmo em benefício próprio. Magoa-se, como se fora um insulto, ao mais humilde convite para sair por um momento das velhas e batidas veredas e, a seu critério, ingressar num novo caminho para seguir alguma outra direção.”
― Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine

“Soma is the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge forbidden by the jealous Elohim to Adam and Eve or Yah-ve, ‘lest Man should become as one of us.”
― Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine

“We can understand, they say, the necessity for concealing from the herd such secrets as the Vril, or the rock-destroying force, discovered by J. W. Keely, of Philadelphia, but we cannot understand how any danger could arise from the revelation of such a purely philosophical doctrine, for instance, as the evolution of the Planetary Chains. The danger was that such doctrines as the Planetary Chain, or the seven Races, at once give a clue to the seven-fold nature of man, for each principle is correlated to a plane, a planet, and a race, and the human principles are, on every plane, correlated to seven-fold occult forces, those of the higher planes being of tremendous power. So that any septenary division at once gives a clue to tremendous occult powers, the abuse of which would cause incalculable evil to humanity; a clue which is, perhaps, no clue to the present generation—especially to Westerns, protected as they are by their very blindness and ignorant materialistic disbelief in the occult—but a clue which would, nevertheless, have been very real in the early centuries of the Christian era to people fully convinced of the reality of Occultism, and entering a cycle of degradation which made them rife for abuse of occult powers and sorcery of the worst description.”
― Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine:THE SYNTHESIS OF SCIENCE, RELIGION, AND PHILOSOPHY

“A “scientific treatment” of a subject is no guarantee for its “historical basis”;”
― Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine:THE SYNTHESIS OF SCIENCE, RELIGION, AND PHILOSOPHY

“Tho-ag in Zhi-gyu slept seven Khorlo. Zodmanas zhiba. All Nyug bosom. Konch-hog not; Thyan-Kam not; Lha-Chohan not; Tenbrel Chugnyi not; Dharmakaya ceased; Tgenchang not become; Barnang and Ssa in Ngovonyidj; alone Tho-og Yinsin in night of Sun-chan and Yong-grub (Parinishpanna), &c., &c.”
― H.P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine