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

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June 1

Mutual criticism is a most healthy policy, and helps to establish final and definite rules in life — practical, not merely theoretical. We have had enough of theories.

Lucifer, September, 1892

June 2

The human Monads or Egos ..... are gradually formed and strengthened during their incarnation-cycle by constant additions of individuality from the personalities in which incarnates the androgynous, half-spiritual, half-terrestrial principle, partaking of both heaven and earth, called by the Vedantins Jîva ..... and by the Occultists the Manas (mind); that, in short, which, uniting itself partially with the Monad, incarnates in each new birth. In perfect unity with its (seventh) Principle, the Spirit unalloyed, it is the divine Higher Self.

The Secret Doctrine , Volume 3, Page 58

June 3

Under the emblematical devices and peculiar phraseology of the priesthood of old lie latent hints of sciences as yet undiscovered during the present cycle.

Isis Unveiled, Volume 1, Page 156

June 4

To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, puts man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that, with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders.

Practical Occultism, Page 64

June 5

All things that ever were, that are, or that will be, have their record upon the astral light, or tablet of the unseen universe; the initiated adept, by using the vision of his own spirit, can know all that has been known or can be known.

Isis Unveiled, Volume 2, Page 588

June 6

The spirit of man which comes into direct and conscious relations with the world of spirit acquires real knowledge; while the spirit of man which lives imprisoned in the body, and is merely fed through the sense with crumbs of knowledge, possesses the unreal only.

Modern Panarion, Page 452

June 7

The wheel of the Good Law moves swiftly on. It guides by night and day. The worthless husks it drives from out the golden grain, the refuse from the flour. The hand of Karma guides the wheel; the revolutions mark the beatings of the Karmic heart.

The Voice of the Silence, Page 45

June 8

Let it be remembered that the Fire and Air of Occultism, or the “Elements of Primary Creation” so-called, are not the compound elements they are on Earth, but noumenal homogeneous Elements — the Spirits of the former.

The Secret Doctrine , Volume 1, Page 239

June 9

The Watcher, or the Divine Prototype, is at the upper rung of the Ladder of Being, the Shadow at the lower, Withal, the Monad of every living being, unless his moral turpitude breaks the connection, and he runs loose an astray in the “Lunar Path” — to use the Occult expression — is an individual Dhyân Chohan, distinct from others, with a kind of spiritual Individuality of its own, during one special Manvantara.

The Secret Doctrine , Volume 1, Page 285

June 10

Give up thy life, if thou wouldst live.

The Voice of the Silence, Page 18

June 11

As God creates, so man can create. Given a certain intensity of will, and the shapes created by the mind become subjective. Hallucinations, they are called, although to their creator they are real as any visible object is to anyone else. Given a more intense and intelligent concentration of this will, and the form becomes concrete, visible, objective; the man has learned the secret of secrets; he is a Magician

Isis Unveiled, Volume 1, Page 62

June 12

The Theosophical idea of charity means personal exertion for others; personal mercy and kindness; personal interest in the welfare of those who suffer; personal sympathy, forethought and assistance in their troubles or needs.

The Key to Theosophy, Page 164

June 13

If the Pythagorean metempsychosis should be thoroughly explained and compared with the modern theory of evolution, it would be found to supply every “missing link” in the chain of the latter.

Isis Unveiled, Volume 1, Page 9

June 14

By reason of the extraordinary growth of human intellect and the development in our age of the fifth principle (Manas) in man, its rapid progress has paralysed spiritual perceptions. It is at the expense of wisdom that intellect generally lives, and mankind is quite unprepared in its present condition to comprehend the awful drama of human disobedience to the laws of Nature, and the subsequent Fall as a result.

The Secret Doctrine , Volume 3, Page 331

June 15

Shalt thou abstain from action? Not so shall gain thy Soul her freedom. To reach Nirvâna one must reach Self-Knowledge, and Self-Knowledge is of loving deeds the child.

The Voice of the Silence, Page 49

June 16

The “Higher Ego” cannot act directly on the body, as its consciousness belongs to quite another plane and planes of ideation; the “lower” Self does; and its action and behaviour depend on its free will and choice as to whether it will gravitate more towards its parent (the “Father in Heaven”) or the “animal” which it informs, the man of flesh.

Lucifer, October, 1890

June 17

There can be no sectarianism in truth seeking.

Modern Panarion, Page 491

June 18

Fohat is the personified electrical vital power, the transcendental binding unity of all cosmic energies, on the unseen as on the manifested planes, the action of which resembles, on an immense scale, that of a living Force created by Will in those phenomena where the seemingly subjective acts on the seemingly objective, and propels it to action.

The Secret Doctrine , Volume 1, Page 136

June 19

Be he what he may, once that a student abandons the old and trodden highway of routine, and enters upon the solitary path of independent thought — Godward — he is a Theosophist; an original thinker, a seeker after the eternal truth with “an inspiration of his own” to solve the universal problems.

Modern Panarion, Page 274

June 20

Ancient, historical Magic is .... reflecting itself upon the scientific records of our own all-denying century. It forces the hand and tires the brain of the scientist, laughing at his efforts to interpret its meaning in his own materialistic way, yet helps the Occultist better to understand modern Magic, the rickety, weak grandchild of her powerful, archaic grandam.

The Theosophist, October, 1886

June 21

It is the will of man, his all-potent will, that weaves his destiny, and if a man is determined in the notion that death means annihilating, he will find it so.

Modern Panarion, Page 139

June 22

By the radiant light of the universal magnetic ocean, whole electric waves bind the cosmos together, and in their ceaseless motion penetrate every atom and molecule of the boundless creation, the disciples of mesmerism — howbeit insufficient their various experiments — intuitionally perceive the alpha and omega of the great mystery. Alone, the study of this agent, which is the divine breath, can unlock the secrets of psychology and physiology, of cosmical and spiritual phenomena.

Isis Unveiled, Volume 1, Page 282

June 23

Right thought is a good thing, but thought alone does not count for much unless it is translated into action.

The Theosophist, May, 1885

June 24

It is only the knowledge of the constant re-births of one and the same Individuality throughout the Life-Cycle; the assurance that the same Monads — among whom are many Dhyân Chohans, or the “Gods” themselves — have to pass through the “Circle of Necessity”, rewarded or punished by such re-birth for the suffering endured or crimes committed in the former life .... that can explain to us the mysterious problem of Good and Evil, and reconcile man to the terrible apparent injustice of life.

The Secret Doctrine , Volume 2, Page 317

June 25

Matter is as indestructible and eternal as the immortal spirit itself, but only in its particles, and not as organised forms.

Isis Unveiled, Volume 1, Page 328

June 26

To live to benefit mankind is the first step.

The Voice of the Silence, Page 52

June 27

After the separation between the life-principle (astral spirit) and the body takes place, the liberated soul — Monad, exultingly rejoins the mother and father spirit, the radiant Augoeides, and the two, merged into one, for ever form, with a glory proportioned to the spiritual purity of the past earth-life, the Adam who has completed the circle of necessity, and is freed from the last vestige of his physical encasement.

Isis Unveiled, Volume 1, Page 303

June 28

No one should go into Occultism or even touch it before he is perfectly acquainted with his own powers, and that he knows how to commensurate with his actions. And this he can do only by studying the philosophy of Occultism before entering upon the practical training. Otherwise, as sure as fate, he will fall into Black Magic.

Lucifer, December, 1888

June 29

The division of the history of mankind into Golden, Silver, Copper, and Iron Ages, is not a fiction. We see the same thing in the literature of peoples. An age of great inspiration and unconscious productiveness is invariably followed by an age of criticism and consciousness. The one affords material for the analysing and critical intellect of the other.

Isis Unveiled, Volume 1, Page 34

June 30

We stand bewildered before the mystery of our own making, and the riddles of life that we will not solve, and then accuse the great Sphinx of devouring us. But verily, there is not an accident in our lives, not a misshapen day, or a misfortune, that could not be traced back to our own doings in this or in another life. If one breaks the laws of Harmony .... the “laws of life”, one must be prepared to fall into the chaos oneself has produced.

The Secret Doctrine , Volume 1, Page 705