„Die Kirchen haben weder das Wissen noch den Glauben, um die Welt zu retten.“
— Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
Artikel "To The Archbishop of Canterbury", Lucifer Dec. 1887, Nachdruck: Blavatsky Collected Writings, Vol. VIII, 279
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Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
Geburtstag: 31. Juli 1831
Todesdatum: 26. April 1891
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Helena Petrovna Blavatsky war eine US-amerikanische Okkultistin deutsch-russischer Herkunft. Ihre Hauptwerke Isis Unveiled und The Secret Doctrine trugen maßgeblich zur Begründung der modernen oder anglo-indischen Theosophie bei und erlangten einen bedeutenden Einfluss auf weite Bereiche der modernen Esoterik. 1875 gründete Blavatsky mit Henry Steel Olcott die Theosophische Gesellschaft.
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„Es ist keine Religion (oder Gesetz) höher als die Wahrheit!“
— Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
Die Geheimlehre, Leipzig o. J., I, 25
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„According to the ancient doctrines, the soulless elemental spirits were evolved by the ceaseless motion inherent in the astral light. Light is force, and the latter is produced by the will. As this will proceeds from an intelligence which cannot err, for it has nothing of the material organs of human thought in it, being the superfine pure emanation of the highest divinity itself — (Plato's "Father") it proceeds from the beginning of time, according to immutable laws, to evolve the elementary fabric requisite for subsequent generations of what we term human races. All of the latter, whether belonging to this planet or to some other of the myriads in space, have their earthly bodies evolved in the matrix out of the bodies of a certain class of these elemental beings which have passed away in the invisible worlds.“
— Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
Chapter VII
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„"Tell me who it is who brings about the re-birth (the revolutio)?" is asked of the wise Hermes. "God's Son, the only man, through the will of God," is the answer of the "heathen." "God's son" is the immortal spirit assigned to every human being. It is this divine entity which is the "only man," for the casket which contains our soul, and the soul itself, are but half-entities, and without its overshadowing both body and astral soul, the two are but an animal duad. It requires a trinity to form the complete "man," and allow him to remain immortal at every "re-birth," or revolutio, throughout the subsequent and ascending spheres, every one of which brings him nearer to the refulgent realm of eternal and absolute light.“
— Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
Chapter IV
„"There is often greater martyrdom to live for the love of, whether man or an ideal, than to die" is a motto of the Mahatmas.“
— Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
[http://www.katinkahesselink.net/blavatsky/articles/v4/y1883_092.htm Collected Writings, vol. IV, p. 603 (October 1889)]
„There is no religion higher than truth.“
— Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
Motto of the Theosophical Society. See for instance: [http://www.katinkahesselink.net/blavatsky/articles/v6/y1884_016.htm Blavatsky Collected Writings, Volume 6, p. 168]
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„The inference to be drawn from all this is, that the made-up and dogmatic Christianity of the Constantinian period is simply an offspring of the numerous conflicting sects, half-castes themselves, born of Pagan parents. Each of these could claim representatives converted to the so-called orthodox body of Christians. And, as every newly-born dogma had to be carried out by the majority of votes, every sect colored the main substance with its own hue, till the moment when the emperor enforced this revealed olla-podrida, of which he evidently did not himself understand a word, upon an unwilling world as the religion of Christ. Wearied in the vain attempt to sound this fathomless bog of international speculations, unable to appreciate a religion based on the pure spirituality of an ideal conception, Christendom gave itself up to the adoration of brutal force as represented by a Church backed up by Constantine. Since then, among the thousand rites, dogmas, and ceremonies copied from Paganism, the Church can claim but one invention as thoroughly original with her — namely, the doctrine of eternal damnation, and one custom, that of the anathema.“
— Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
Chapter VII
„While Moses forbids 'graven images' of Him whose name is not to be taken in vain, Spinoza goes farther. He clearly infers that God must not be so much as described. Human language is totally unfit to give an idea of this "Being" who is altogether unique. Whether it is Spinoza or the Christian theology that is more right in their premises and conclusion, we leave the reader to judge for himself. Every attempt to the contrary leads a nation to anthropomorphize the deity in whom it believes, and the result is that given by Swedenborg. Instead of stating that God made man after his own image, we ought in truth to say that "man imagines God after his image," forgetting that he has set up his own reflection for worship.“
— Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
Chapter IX
„Evidently Proclus does not advocate here simply a superstition, but science; for notwithstanding that it is occult, and unknown to our scholars, who deny its possibilities, magic is still a science. It is firmly and solely based on the mysterious affinities existing between organic and inorganic bodies, the visible productions of the four kingdoms, and the invisible powers of the universe. That which science calls gravitation, the ancients and the mediaeval hermetists called magnetism, attraction, affinity. It is the universal law, which is understood by Plato and explained in Timaeus as the attraction of lesser bodies to larger ones, and of similar bodies to similar, the latter exhibiting a magnetic power rather than following the law of gravitation. The anti-Aristotelean formula that gravity causes all bodies to descend with equal rapidity, without reference to their weight, the difference being caused by some other unknown agency, would seem to point a great deal more forcibly to magnetism than to gravitation, the former attracting rather in virtue of the substance than of the weight. A thorough familiarity with the occult faculties of everything existing in nature, visible as well as invisible; their mutual relations, attractions, and repulsions; the cause of these, traced to the spiritual principle which pervades and animates all things; the ability to furnish the best conditions for this principle to manifest itself, in other words a profound and exhaustive knowledge of natural law — this was and is the basis of magic.“
— Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
Chapter VII
