The Land of the Gods Quotes

“But we know from our daily experience that intellectuality isn’t necessarily accompanied by wisdom, that often, those who are most cunning are also most vicious. The most learned are often the most unreasonable.”
― Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, The Land of the Gods: The Long-Hidden Story of Visiting the Masters of Wisdom in Shambhala

“As long as humanity moves merely on the plane of beliefs and opinion, each person’s opinions and tastes will differ from those of the others to a certain extent, and I am afraid that your proposed harmonious society would prove in the end to be a very inharmonious one, and not at all conducive to that tranquillity necessary for interior concentration.”
― Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, The Land of the Gods: The Long-Hidden Story of Visiting the Masters of Wisdom in Shambhala

“Here we live in peace, separated from the outer world by an impassable barrier, for even if its existence was known, it would be an easy matter to create other illusions to prevent intrusion. We are, however, not excluded from that outer world, although we never enter it with our physical forms. By”
― H.P. Blavatsky, The Land of the Gods: The Long-Hidden Story of Visiting the Masters of Wisdom in Shambhala

“Give us men or women who desire nothing else but the truth, and we will take care of their needs. How much money will it require to lodge a person who cares nothing for comfort? What will it take to furnish the kitchen for those who have no desire for dainties? What libraries will be required for those who can read the book of Nature? What external pictures will please those who wish to avoid a life of the senses and retire within themselves? What terrestrial scenery shall be selected for those who live within the paradise of their souls? What company will please those who converse with their own higher self? How can we amuse those who live in the presence of God?”
― H.P. Blavatsky, The Land of the Gods: The Long-Hidden Story of Visiting the Masters of Wisdom in Shambhala

“The Will is the Law, the universal power holding together the worlds in space and causing the revolutions of planets; it pervades and penetrates everything and doesn’t require your strengthening it, for it is already strong enough to accomplish everything possible. You are only an instrument through which this universal power may act and manifest, and you may experience the fullest extent of its strength if you don’t attempt to oppose it. But if you imagine you have a will of your own whose mode of action differs from the universal will, you merely pervert an insignificant part of the latter and oppose it to the great original power. The more you imagine having such a will of your own, the more you will come into conflict with the original will-power of the Universe. As you are only an insignificant part of the latter, you will be overwhelmed and bring on your own destruction. Your will can only act powerfully if it remains identical to the Will of the Universal Spirit. Your will is strongest if you have no will of your own, but remain in all things obedient to the Law.”
― H.P. Blavatsky, The Land of the Gods: The Long-Hidden Story of Visiting the Masters of Wisdom in Shambhala

“The sunlight is open to all, but not all can see it. The eternal fountain of truth is inexhaustible and universal, but those who open their hearts to the sunshine of truth are few. Seek continually to rise above the sphere of selfishness,”
― H. P. BLAVATSKY, The Land of the Gods: The Long-Hidden Story of Visiting the Masters of Wisdom in Shambhala

“Ages and centuries may roll away before the sunlight of truth will penetrate through the thick veil of materialism and superstition, which, like an icy crust, covers the true foundation of human religions.”
― H. P. BLAVATSKY, The Land of the Gods: The Long-Hidden Story of Visiting the Masters of Wisdom in Shambhala

“Do the ignorant become wise after having been baptized with water? Do those who have submitted to the ceremony of confirmation obtain true faith? Does the sinner become innocent after having the load removed from their conscience through absolution? Can our clergy change the laws of Nature? Can they, by any external ceremony, cause the growth of an inner principle? Or do those who enter a church an animal come out an animal still?”
― H. P. BLAVATSKY, The Land of the Gods: The Long-Hidden Story of Visiting the Masters of Wisdom in Shambhala

“Wherever darkness exists, there exists abhorrence of light. Wherever an ignorant human enters, their imperfections enter.”
― H. P. BLAVATSKY, The Land of the Gods: The Long-Hidden Story of Visiting the Masters of Wisdom in Shambhala

“Wherever ignorance resides, there is an entourage of suspicion, envy, and fear.”
― H. P. BLAVATSKY, The Land of the Gods: The Long-Hidden Story of Visiting the Masters of Wisdom in Shambhala

“the curse of the world and the root of all evil is ignorance. The curse of humankind is the ignorance of their essential nature and final destiny. The efforts of a true system of religion and science ought to be, above all, to remove this stupidity.”
― H. P. BLAVATSKY, The Land of the Gods: The Long-Hidden Story of Visiting the Masters of Wisdom in Shambhala

“Humans intuitively know that, no matter how wealthy or famous they may be, they have not yet reached a state in which they will be contented to rest; they know they must still keep on striving for something, but they don’t know what that something is. Not knowing the higher life, they strive for more of those things which the lower life affords and thus waste their energies on the attainment of useless things.”
― H. P. BLAVATSKY, The Land of the Gods: The Long-Hidden Story of Visiting the Masters of Wisdom in Shambhala

“there exists nothing in the Universe but God; but if this word doesn’t please someone, because it has for ages been subject to misconceptions, and because, if we speak of God, the people will insist in imagining that we are referring to an external and personal god, which is an absurdity because no place can be found in Nature for such a god — let us call it the Real?”
― H. P. BLAVATSKY, The Land of the Gods: The Long-Hidden Story of Visiting the Masters of Wisdom in Shambhala

“Allah il Allah, says the Mohammedan; God is God, and there is nothing beside Him. He is the All; matter and motion and space, consciousness, intelligence, wisdom, spirit, substance, energy, darkness, and light. The worlds are His outspoken Will, but there is nothing outside of Himself which He cannot create. He is the All, including and penetrating everything. Thus everything exists within Him, who is the life and soul of all things. In Him, we live and move and have our being, and without Him, we are nothing.”
― H. P. BLAVATSKY, The Land of the Gods: The Long-Hidden Story of Visiting the Masters of Wisdom in Shambhala

“It is the old story of the Fall of Man. As long as humanity remained in a state of purity — that is to say, as long as will and imagination were identical to the will and the imagination of the spiritual power acting within Nature — they knew the truth and were all-powerful. But when they began to think and to imagine in a way different from that universal power, they lost sight of the truth and could see only their own illusions. If a person wants to see the truth again, they must give up their own way of thinking and reasoning and let Reason will and think in them.”
― H. P. BLAVATSKY, The Land of the Gods: The Long-Hidden Story of Visiting the Masters of Wisdom in Shambhala

“Our mind is like a mirror in which the ideas floating in the Universal Mind are reflected, comparable to a tranquil lake in which you may see the true images of the passing clouds. If the lake’s surface is disturbed, the images become distorted. If the water becomes muddy, the reflections cease altogether. Likewise, if the mind is in a tranquil state and clear of foreign elements, the person will reflect on the grandest and noblest ideas existing within the world of the mind.”
― H. P. BLAVATSKY, The Land of the Gods: The Long-Hidden Story of Visiting the Masters of Wisdom in Shambhala

“Philosopher’s Stone”
― H. P. BLAVATSKY, The Land of the Gods: The Long-Hidden Story of Visiting the Masters of Wisdom in Shambhala

“each particle of this primordial matter must be able to grow under certain conditions into gold, under other conditions to produce iron, under others mercury, etc.”
― H. P. BLAVATSKY, The Land of the Gods: The Long-Hidden Story of Visiting the Masters of Wisdom in Shambhala

“Your Dualism in theology has been the cause of untold misery, creating a continual quarrel between God and the Devil; your Polytheism in science blinds the eyes and obstructs the judgement of the learned and keeps them in ignorance. What do you know about the attributes of primordial matter? What do you know about the difference between matter and force? All the so-called simple substances known to your science are originally grown out of primordial matter. But this primordial matter is a Unity; it is only One.”
― H. P. BLAVATSKY, The Land of the Gods: The Long-Hidden Story of Visiting the Masters of Wisdom in Shambhala

“Nature isn’t, as your scientists seem to believe, an agglomeration of fundamentally different objects and elements; Nature is a whole, and everything in the organism acts and is acted on by every other thing contained therein.”
― H. P. BLAVATSKY, The Land of the Gods: The Long-Hidden Story of Visiting the Masters of Wisdom in Shambhala

“None of the old Greeks and Romans, except the most ignorant, believed that Zeus, Pluto, Neptune, etc., were real personalities, nor did they worship them as such. They were merely symbols and personifications of formless powers. Likewise, every human’s form and body is not the real individuality; it is merely a symbol and personification of their authentic character and attributes, a form of matter in which the thoughts of the real human have found their external expression.”
― H. P. BLAVATSKY, The Land of the Gods: The Long-Hidden Story of Visiting the Masters of Wisdom in Shambhala

“If the intellect were to act only in harmony with reason, all intellectual human beings would not only be intellectual but would also be wise. But we know from our daily experience that intellectuality isn’t necessarily accompanied by wisdom, that often, those who are most cunning are also most vicious. The most learned are often the most unreasonable.”
― H. P. BLAVATSKY, The Land of the Gods: The Long-Hidden Story of Visiting the Masters of Wisdom in Shambhala

“The sheep don’t need to be instructed by a zoologist to seek escape if a tiger approaches; it knows by its signature and without argumentation that it is its enemy. Is it not much more important for the sheep to know the ferocious character of the tiger than to be informed that the latter belongs to the genus Felis? If, by some miracle, a sheep should become intellectual, it might learn so much about the external form, anatomy, physiology, and genealogy of the tiger that it would lose sight of its internal character and be devoured by it. Absurd as this example may appear, it is nevertheless the true representation of what is done in your schools daily. There the rising generation receives what they call a scientific education. They are taught all about the external form of humans and how that form may be comfortably fed, lodged, and housed. However, the sight of the real human who occupies that form is entirely lost. Their needs are neglected, starved, ill-treated, and tortured, and some of your ‘great lights of science’ have become so short-sighted that they even deny they exist.”
― H. P. BLAVATSKY, The Land of the Gods: The Long-Hidden Story of Visiting the Masters of Wisdom in Shambhala

“You may imagine evil deeds of all kinds, but unless you desire to perform them, the creations of your imagination obtain no life. But if you desire to perform them if your will is so evil that you would be willing to perform them if you had the external means to do so, then it may perhaps be as bad for you as if you had actually committed them.”
― H. P. BLAVATSKY, The Land of the Gods: The Long-Hidden Story of Visiting the Masters of Wisdom in Shambhala

“But the only substance we know is the universal primordial element of matter, constituting the substance of the Universal Mind, the Akasha. This element of matter is invisibly present everywhere, but only when it assumes a certain state of density, sufficient to resist the penetrating influence of the terrestrial light, does it come within reach of your sensual perception and assume an objective shape.”
― H. P. BLAVATSKY, The Land of the Gods: The Long-Hidden Story of Visiting the Masters of Wisdom in Shambhala

“I am sorry for anyone who is so backward in their course of spiritual evolution that they can’t yet recognize the presence of God in everything. The supreme spirit which pervades, embraces, and penetrates everything, being the essence, soul, and life of all things in the Universe, from the atom to the whole Solar System, is beyond all mental conception. If He could be grasped by the human intellect, that intellect would have to be greater than God. There is nothing real but God. Nature is only a manifestation of His power.”
― H. P. BLAVATSKY, The Land of the Gods: The Long-Hidden Story of Visiting the Masters of Wisdom in Shambhala

“Modern science says that it wants to know the laws of Nature in all their minute ramifications and yet pays no attention whatever to the universal and fundamental law from which all these ramifications spring. Thus science resembles an insect crawling over a fallen leaf and imagining, thereby learning the qualities of the tree.”
― H. P. BLAVATSKY, The Land of the Gods: The Long-Hidden Story of Visiting the Masters of Wisdom in Shambhala

“As the present civilization now stands, there are two education methods. One utilizes what is called Science, the other what is called Religion. As far as science is concerned, the deductions and speculations are based on observation and logic. The logic may be good enough; but the powers of observation, upon which the fundamentals of its logic rest, are restricted to the very imperfect faculties of sensual perception, and therefore your science is based entirely upon external illusions and is consequently a superficial and illusive science, knowing nothing about the inner life, which is far more important than external phenomena. Scientific doctrines regarding the fundamental laws of Nature are wrong, and therefore all the deductions are wrong as soon as it leaves the plane of illusions.”
― H. P. BLAVATSKY, The Land of the Gods: The Long-Hidden Story of Visiting the Masters of Wisdom in Shambhala

“we can know nothing real except what we realize within ourselves because we feel, see, and understand it. That which is usually called knowledge is merely a matter of memory. We may store innumerable things in our memory, and they may be true or false; but even if they are true, they don’t convey real knowledge. Real knowledge cannot be imparted by one person to another; someone can only be guided to the place where they may obtain it; but they must grasp the truth for themselves, not merely intellectually with their brain but also intuitionally with their heart.”
― H. P. BLAVATSKY, The Land of the Gods: The Long-Hidden Story of Visiting the Masters of Wisdom in Shambhala