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

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August

August 1

The East, being the cardinal point when arises the luminary of the Day, the great giver and sustainer of life, the creator of all that lives and breathes on this globe, what wonder if all the nations of the Earth worshipped in him the visible agent of the invisible Principle and Cause; and that mass should be said in the honour of him who is the giver of messis or “harvest”. But between worshipping the ideal as a whole and the physical symbol, a part chosen to represent that whole and the All, there is an abyss.

Lucifer, March 1889

August 2

There can be no spiritual intercourse either with the souls of the living or the dead unless it is preceded by self-spiritualisation, the conquest of the meaner self, the education of the nobler powers within us.

Modern Panarion, Page 368

August 3

The idea that “numbers” possessing the greatest virtue produce always what is good and never what is evil refers to justice, equanimity of temper, and everything that is harmonious.

Isis Unveiled, Volume 1, Page XXVII

August 4

The mind requires purification whenever anger is felt or a falsehood is told, or the faults of another needlessly disclosed; whenever anything is said or done for the purpose of flattery, or anyone is deceived by the insincerity of a speech or an act.

Practical Occultism, Page 73

August 5

Shadow is that which enables Light to manifest itself, and gives its objective reality. Therefore, Shadow is not evil, but is the necessary and indispensable corollary which completes Light or Good; it is its creator on Earth.

The Secret Doctrine , Volume 2, Page 225

August 6

The more the body is exhausted, the freer is the spiritual man, and the more vivid the impressions of our soul's memory.

Isis Unveiled, Volume 1, Page 179

August 7

Every time the immortal Ego incarnates it becomes, as a total, a compound unit of Matter and Spirit, which together act on seven different planes of being and consciousness.

The Secret Doctrine , Volume 2, Page 669

August 8

Atmâ, or the irradiating Spirit of every creature of the human family.

The Secret Doctrine , Volume 1, Page 145

August 9

To imagine that a human brain can conceive of anything that was never conceived of before by the “universal brain” is a fallacy and a conceited presumption. At best, the former can catch now and then stray glimpses of the “Eternal Thought” after this has assumed some objective forms, either in the world of the invisible or visible Universe.

Modern Panarion, Page 149

August 10

Alas, alas! How little has the divine seed, scattered broadcast by the hand of the meek Judean philosopher, thrived or brought forth fruit. He, who himself had shunned hypocrisy, warned against public prayer, showing such contempt for any useless exhibition of the same, could he but cast his sorrowful glance on the earth, from the regions of eternal bliss, would see that this seed fell neither on sterile rock nor by the wayside. Nay, it took deep root in the most prolific soil; one enriched even to plethora with lies and human gore!

Isis Unveiled, Volume 2, Page 303

August 11

The term gods .... conveys to the mind of the mystic ..... the idea of a visible or cognised manifestation of an invisible potency of nature. And such occult potencies are invoked under the appellation of various gods, who, for the time being, are personating these powers.

Isis Unveiled, Volume 1, Page XLIV

August 12

Help nature and work on with her; and Nature will regard thee as one of her creators and make obeisance. And she will open wide before thee the portals of her secret chambers .....

The Voice of the Silence, Page 29

August 13

Lucifer — the Spirit of Intellectual Enlightenment and Freedom of Thought — is metaphorically the guiding beacon, which helps man to find his way through the rocks and sand-banks of Life, for Lucifer is the Logos in his highest, and the “Adversary” in his lowest aspect — both of which are reflected in our Ego.

The Secret Doctrine , Volume 2, Page 171

August 14

The spiritual “I” in man is omniscient and has every knowledge innate in it; while the personal self if the creature of its environment and the slave of the physical memory.

The Key to Theosophy , Page 89

August 15

Our God within us, or “Our Father in secret” is what we call the Higher Self, Atmâ. Our incarnating Ego was a god in its origin, as were all the primeval emanation of the One Unknown Principle. But, since its “fall into matter”, having to incarnate throughout the cycle, in succession, from first to last, it is no longer a free and happy God, but a poor pilgrim on his way to regain that which he has lost.

The Key to Theosophy, Page 123

August 16

Put, without delay, your good intentions into practice, never leaving a single one to remain only an intention.

Practical Occultism, Page 75

August 17

Thou canst create this “day” thy chances for thy “morrow”. In the “Great Journey” [ a complete cycle of existences, in one “Round] causes sown each hour, bear each its harvest of effects, for rigid Justice rules the World. With mighty sweep of never-erring action, it brings to mortals lives of weal or woe, the Karmic progeny of all our former thoughts and deeds.

The Voice of the Silence, Page 53

August 18

To the Eastern Occultist the Tree of Knowledge, in the Paradise of man's own heart, becomes the Tree of Life Eternal, and has nought to do with man's animal senses. It is an absolute mystery that reveals itself only through the efforts of the imprisoned Manas, the Ego, to liberate itself from the thraldom of sensuous perception, and see in the light of the one eternal present Reality.

The Secret Doctrine, Volume 2, Page 621

August 19

There can be no real enfranchisement of human thought nor expansion of scientific discovery until the existence of spirit is recognised, and the double evolution accepted as a fact.

Modern Panarion, Page 93

August 20

Compare the two Redeemers, the Hindu and the Christian, the one preceding the other by some thousands of years; place between them Siddhârtha Buddha, reflecting Christna, and projecting into the night of the future his own luminous shadow, out of whose collected rays were shaped the outlines of the mystical Jesus, and from whose teachings were drawn those of the historical Christos; and we find that under one identical garment of poetical legend lived and breathed three real human figures.

Isis Unveiled, Volume 2, Page 536

August 21

Saith the Great Law: “In order to become the knower of ALL-SELF, thou has first of Self to be the knower”.

The Voice of the Silence, Page 17

August 22

No one will deny that the human being is possessed of various forces, magnetic, sympathetic, antipathetic, nervous, dynamical, occult, mechanical, mental, in fact, of every kind of force; and that the physical forces are all biological in their essence, seeing that they intermingle with, and often merge into, those forces that we have named intellectual and moral, the first being the vehicles so to say, .... of the second. Non one who does not deny soul in man would hesitate in saying that their presence and commingling are the very essence of our being; that they constitute the Ego in man, in fact.

The Secret Doctrine, Volume 1, Page 508

August 23

More than one thoughtful mind, while studying the fortunes and reverses of nations and great empires, has been struck by one identical feature i their history, namely, the inevitable recurrence of similar events, and after equal periods of time.

Five Years of Theosophy, Page 307

August 24

In the seven-fold nature of man .... 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.

The Secret Doctrine, Volume 1, Page 19

August 25

Excesses of power, abuse of knowledge and personal ambition very often led selfish and unscrupulous Initiates to black Magic, just as the same causes let to precisely the same thing among Christian popes and cardinals; and it was black Magic that led finally to the abolition of the Mysteries, and not Christianity, as is often erroneously thought.

The Secret Doctrine, Volume 3, Page 255

August 26

One past the threshold of the sanctuary of initiation, once that an adept has lifted the “Veil of Isis”, the mysterious and jealous goddess, he has nothing to fear; but till then he is in constant danger.

Isis Unveiled, Volume 1, Page 319

August 27

Thou casnt not travel on the Path before thou has become that Path itself

The Voice of the Silence, Page 27

August 28

Forms pass; ideas that created them and the material which gave them objectiveness remain.

Lucifer, August, 1893

August 29

The search after man's diviner “self”, so often and so erroneously interpreted as individual communion with a personal God, was the object of every mystic, and belief in its possibility seems to have been coeval with the genesis of humanity, each people giving it another name.

Modern Panarion, Page 265

August 30

Knowledge increases in proportion to its use, that is, the more we teach the more we learn. Therefore, Seeker after Truth, with the faith of a little child and the wil of an Initiate, give of your store to him who hath not wherewithal to comfort him on his journey.

Practical Occultism, Page 70

August 31

The Tree of the Knowledge of the Good and the Evil grows from the roots of the Tree of Life.

The Secret Doctrine, Volume 2, Page 227