If coming events are said to cast their shadows before, past events cannot fall to leave their impress behind them.
Time is only an illusion produced by the succession of our states of consciousness as we travel through eternal duration, and it does not exist where no consciousness exists in which the illusion can be produced; but “lies asleep.”
Knowledge increases in proportion to its use; that is, the more we teach the more we learn.
Everything lives and perishes through magnetism; one thing affects another one, even at great distances, and its “congenitals” may be influenced to health and disease by the power of this sympathy, at any time, and notwithstanding the intervening space.
We see that every external motion, act, gesture, whether voluntary or mechanical, organic or mental, is produced and preceded by internal feeling or emotion, will or volition, and thought or mind.
The discoveries of modern science do not disagree with the oldest traditions which claim an incredible antiquity for our race.
Hast thou attuned thyself to the suffering of humanity, O candidate for light?
From Architecture down to the Zodiac, every science worthy of the name was imported by the Greeks.
Becoming is the mode of activity of the uncreate deity.
Dogma? Faith? These are the right and left pillars of every soul-crushing theology. Theosophists have no dogmas, exact no blind faith.
Reflect upon the defects of your character: thoroughly realize their evils and the transient pleasures they give you, and firmly will that you shall try your best not to yield to them the next time.
Spiritualism is but a baby now, an unwelcome stranger, whom public opinion, like an unnatural foster mother, tries to crush out of existence.
There is no religion higher than Truth.
The human mind can hardly remain entirely free from bias, and decisive opinions are often formed before a thorough examination of a subject from all its aspects has been made.
The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet.
The mind is the slayer of the real, let the disciples slay the slayer.
Strength your Soul against the stalk of the Ego, make it worth of the name of Diamond Soul.
The man might have become a Power, but he preferred to remain an Ass.
Be humble, if thou would’st attain to wisdom. Be humbler still, when wisdom thou hast mastered.
That cruelest of tyrants – public opinion.