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A Blavatsky Quotation Book: being an Extract for each Day of the Year

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April

April 1

Adverse opinions are like conflicting winds which brush from the quiet surface of a lake the green scum that tends to settle upon still waters.

Lucifer, September, 1892

April 2

Physical organic progress is effected through hereditary transmission; spiritual organic progress by transmigration.

Modern Panarion, Page 79

April 3

Spiritual culture is attained through concentration. It must be continued daily and every moment to be of use. Meditation has been defined as “the cessation of active external thought” . Concentration is the entire life-tendency to a given end.

Practical Occultism, Page 81

April 4

The “Fall” is a universal allegory. It sets forth at one end of the ladder of Evolution the “rebellion”, i.e. the action of differentiating intellection, or consciousness, on its various planes, seeking union with Matter; and at the other, the lower end, the rebellion of Matter against Spirit, or of action against spiritual inertia.

The Secret Doctrine , Volume 2, Page 65

April 5

..... in the twentieth century of our era scholars will begin to recognise that the Secret Doctrine has neither been invented nor exaggerated, but, on the contrary, simply outlined; and finally, that its teachings antedate the Vedas.

The Secret Doctrine , Volume 1, Page 21

April 6

For mind is like a mirror; it gathers dust while it reflects. It needs the gentle breezes of Soul-wisdom to brush away the dust of our illusions. Seek, O Beginner, to blend thy Mind and Soul.

The Voice of the Silence, Page 43

April 7

Man-spirit proves God-spirit, as the one drop of water proves a source from which it must have come. Tell one who had never seen water that there is an ocean of water and he must accept it on faith or reject it altogether. But let one drop fall upon his hand, and he then has the fact from which all the rest may be inferred.

Isis Unveiled, Volume 1, Page XII

April 8

Real life is in the spiritual consciousness of that life, in a conscious existence in Spirit, not matter; and real death is the limited perception of life, the impossibility of sensing conscious or even individual existence outside of form, or at least of some form of Matter.

The Secret Doctrine , Volume 3, Page 512

April 9

Arcane knowledge misapplied, is sorcery; beneficently used, true magic or Wisdom.

Isis Unveiled, Volume 2, Page 588

April 10

As there is no good or evil per se, so there is neither “elixir of life”, nor “elixir of death”, nor poison, per se, but all this is contained in one and the same universal Essence, this or the other effect, or result, depending on the degree of its differentiation and its various correlations. The light side of it produces life, health, bliss, divine peace, etc., the dark side brings death, disease, sorrow and strife.

The Secret Doctrine , Volume 3, Page 489

April 11

Once grasp the idea that universal causation is not merely present, but past, present and future, and every action on our present plane falls naturally and easily into its true place, and is seen in its true relation to ourselves and to others. Every mean and selfish action sends us backwards and not forward, while every noble thought and every unselfish deed are stepping stones to the higher and more glorious planes of being.

The Key to Theosophy, Page 159

April 12

Ten ciphers, twenty-two alphabetical letters, one triangle, a square and a circle. Such are the elements of the Kabalah, from whose mysterious bosom sprang all the religions of the past and present.

Modern Panarion, Page 52

April 13

No psychic phenomenon is involved. It is neither prevision nor prophecy .... It is simply knowledge, and mathematically correct computations, which enable the Wise Men of the East to foretell that England is on the eve of such or another catastrophe; that France is nearing such a point of her Cycle; and that Europe in general is threatened with, or rather on the eve of, a cataclysm, to which her own Cycle of racial karma has led her. [Written before 1888]

The Secret Doctrine , Volume 1, Page 708

April 14

Man .... in a mortal body is affected by doubts which will spring up. When they do arise, it is because he is ignorant about something. He should, therefore, be able to dispense doubt “by the sword of knowledge”. .... All doubts come from the lower nature, and never in any case from the higher nature.

Practical Occultism, Page 80

April 15

Karma is the unerring law which adjusts effect to cause, on the physical, mental and spiritual planes of being. As no cause remains without its due effect from greatest to least, from a cosmic disturbance down to the movement of your hand, and as like produces like, Karma is that unseen and unknown law which adjusts wisely, intelligently and equitably, each effect to its cause, tracing the latter back to its producer.

The Key to Theosophy, Page 136

April 16

There is no Devil, no Evil outside mankind to produce a Devil. Evil is a necessity in, and one of the supporters of the Manifested Universe. It is a necessity for progress and evolution, as night is necessary for the production of day, and death for that of life — that man may live for ever.

The Secret Doctrine , Volume 2, Page 406

April 17

No Ego differs from another Ego, in its primordial or original essence and nature. That which makes one mortal a great man and of another a vulgar, silly person, is the quality and make-up of the physical shell or casing, and the adequacy or inadequacy of brain and body to transmit and give expression to the light of the real, Inner man; and this aptness or inaptness is, in its turn, the result of Karma

Lucifer, November, 1889

April 18

The Mind is the great Slayer of the Real. Let the Disciple slay the Slayer.

The Voice of the Silence, Page 14

April 19

Our conceptions, limited to the narrow area of our experience, attempt to fit if not an end, at least a beginning of time and space; but neither of these exists in reality; for in such case time would not be eternal, nor space boundless.

Isis Unveiled, Volume 1, Page 184

April 20

In the Hall of Learning ...... thy Soul will find the blossoms of life, but under every flower a serpent coiled.

The Voice of the Silence, Page 19

April 21

When Paul entitles himself a “master-builder”, he is using a word pre-eminently kabalistic, theurgic, and masonic, and one which no other apostle uses. He thus declares himself an adept, having the right to initiate others.

Isis Unveiled, Volume 2, Page 91

April 22

Man, the most perfect of organised beings on earth, in whom matter and spirit — i.e., will —are the most developed and powerful, is alone allowed to give a conscious impulse to that principle which emanates from him; and only he can impart to the magnetic fluid opposite and various impulses without limit as to the direction.

Isis Unveiled, Volume 1, Page 144

April 23

It is an occult law that no man can rise superior to his individual failings without lifting, be it ever so little, the whole body of which he is an integral part. In the same way no one can sin, nor suffer the effects of sin, alone. In reality, there is no such things as “separateness”; and the nearest approach to that selfish state which the laws of life permit is in the intent or motive.

The Key to Theosophy , page 137

April 24

To sum up all in a few words, Magic is spiritual Wisdom; nature the material ally, pupil and servant of the magician. One common, vital principle pervades all things, and this is controllable by the perfect human will. The adept can stimulate the movements of the natural forces in plants and animals in a preternatural degree. Such experiments are not obstructions of nature, but quickenings; the conditions of intenser vital action are given.

Isis Unveiled, Volume 2, Page 590

April 25

The Darwinian theory of the transmission of acquired faculties is neither taught nor accepted in Occultism. Evolution, in the latter, proceeds on quite other lines; the physical, according to Esoteric Teaching, evolving gradually from the spiritual, mental and psychic.

The Secret Doctrine , Volume 1, Page 238

April 26

What is “Divine Wisdom”, or Gnosis, but the essential reality behind the evanescent appearances of objects in nature — the soul of the manifested Logos?

Lucifer, November, 1888

April 27

.... Adepts, that is to say, are men who have developed and perfected their physical, mental, psychic, and spiritual organisations, to the utmost possible degree.

The Secret Doctrine , Volume 1, Page 294

April 28

Karma creates nothing, nor does it design. It is man who plans and creates causes, and Karmic Law adjusts the effect, which adjustment is not an act, but universal harmony, tending ever to resume its original position, like a bough, which, bent down too forcibly, rebounds with corresponding vigour. If it happen to dislocate the arm that tried to bend it out of its natural position, shall we say that it is the bough which broke our arm, or that our own folly has brought us to grief?

The Secret Doctrine , Volume 2, Page 319

April 29

The best remedy for evil is not the suppression, but the elimination of desire, and this can best be accomplished by keeping the mind constantly steeped in things divine.

Practical Occultism, Page 68

April 30

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 order words, a profound and exhaustive knowledge of natural law — this was and is the basis of magic.

Isis Unveiled, Volume 1, Page 244