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

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March

March 1

Life is the great teacher: it is the great manifestation of Soul, and Soul manifests the Supreme.

Practical Occultism, Page 82

March 2

Pure primeval magic does not consist in superstitious practices and vain ceremonies, but in the imperial will of man.

Isis Unveiled, Volume 1, Page 170

March 3

By its complex nature the soul may descend and ally itself so closely to the corporeal nature as to exclude a higher life from exerting any moral influence upon it. On the other hand, it can so closely attach itself to the Nous or Spirit as to share its potency, in which case its vehicle, physical man, will appear as a God even during his terrestrial life.

Modern Panarion, Page 134

March 4

The processes of Nature are acts of incessant borrowing and giving back

Five Years of Theosophy, Page 344

March 5

If we admit that we are in the stream of evolution, then each circumstance must be to us quite right.

Practical Occultism, Page 63

March 6

The centripetal force could not manifest itself without the centrifugal in the harmonious revolution of the spheres; all forms are the products of this dual force in nature.

Isis Unveiled, Volume 1, Page 318

March 7

The duty of a Theosophist to himself is to control and conquer, through the Higher Self, the lower self. To purify himself inwardly and morally; to fear no one, and nought, save the tribunal of his own conscience. Never to do a thing by halves; i.e., if he thinks it the right thing to do, let him do it openly and boldly, and if wrong, never touch it at all.

The Key to Theosophy , Page 162

March 8

Crimes committed in Avidyâ, or ignorance, involve physical but not moral responsibilities or karma. Take, for example, the case of idiots, children, savages, and people who know no better. But the case of each who is pledged to the Higher Self is quite another matter. You cannot invoke the Divine Witness with impunity, and once that you have put yourselves under its tutelage, you have asked the Radiant Light to shine and search through all the dark corners of your being; consciously you have invoked the Divine Justice of Karma to take note of your motive, to scrutinize your actions, and to enter up all in your account.

The Secret Doctrine , Volume 3, Page 529

March 9

No form can come into objective existence — from the highest to the lowest — before the abstract ideal of this form — or, as Aristotle would call it, the privation of this form — is called forth. Before an artist paints a picture every feature of it exists already in his imagination; to have enabled us to discern a watch, this particular watch must have existed in its abstract form in the watch-maker's mind. So with future men.

Isis Unveiled, Volume 1, Page 310

March 10

True knowledge is the flour, false learning is the husk. If thou wouldst eat the bread of Wisdom, thy flour thou hast to knead with Amrita's [Immortality] clear waters. But if thou kneadest husks with Mâyâ's dew, thou canst create but food for the black doves of death, the birds of birth, decay and sorrow.

The Voice of the Silence, Page 46

March 11

Magic is but a science, a profound knowledge of the Occult forces in Nature, and of the laws governing the visible or the invisible world.

Modern Panarion, Page 57

March 12

No man can learn true and final Wisdom in one birth; and every new rebirth, whether we be reincarnated for weal or for woe, is one more lesson we receive at the hands of the stern yet ever just schoolmaster - Karmic Life.

Lucifer, September, 1890

March 13

Between the extremes of spiritual negation and affirmation there ought to be a middle ground; only pure philosophy can establish truth upon firm principles; and no philosophy can be complete unless it embraces both physics and metaphysics.

Modern Panarion, Page 302

March 14

He who does not practise altruism; he who is not prepared to share his last morsel with a weaker or poorer than himself; he who neglects to help his brother man, of whatever race, nation, or creed, whenever and wherever he meets suffering, and who turns a deaf ear to the cry of human misery; he who hears an innocent person slandered, whether a brother theosophist or not, and does not undertake his defence as he would undertake his own — is no Theosophist.

Lucifer, November, 1887

March 15

The trunk of the Asvattha (the tree of Life and Being, the Rod of the Caduceus) grows from and descends at every Beginning ..... from the two dark wings of the Swan (Hansa) of Life. The two Serpents, the ever-living and its illusion (Spirit and Matter), whose two heads grow from the one head between the wings, descend along the trunks interlaced in close embrace. The two tails join on earth (the manifested Universe) into one, and this is the great illusion, O Lanoo!

The Secret Doctrine , Volume 1, Page 600

March 16

Nature is triune; there is a visible, objective nature; an invisible, indwelling, energising nature, the exact model of the other, and its vital principle; and, above these two, spirit, source of all forces, alone eternal and indestructible. The lower two constantly change; the higher third does not.

Isis Unveiled, Volume 2, Page 587

March 17

One single journey to the Orient, made in the proper spirit, and the possible emergencies arising from the meeting of what may seem no more than the chance acquaintances and adventures of any traveller, may quite as likely as not throw wide open to the zealous student the heretofore closed doors of the final mysteries .... and is sure to produce more rapid, better, and far more practical results than the most diligent study of Occultism in books.

Modern Panarion, Page 54

March 18

We live in an atmosphere of gloom and despair .... because our eyes are downcast and riveted to the earth, with all its physical and grossly material manifestations. If instead of that, man, proceeding on his life journey, looked — not heavenward, which is but a figure of speech — but within himself, and centred his point of observation on the inner man, he would soon escape from the coils of the great serpent of illusion.

Lucifer, October, 1887

March 19

Magic, as a science, is the knowledge of these principles and of the way by which the omniscience and omnipotence of the spirit and its control over nature's forces may be acquired by the individual while still in the body. Magic, as an art, is the application of this knowledge in practice.

Isis Unveiled, Volume 2, Page 588

March 20

The identity of our physical origin makes no appeal to our higher and deeper feelings. Matter, deprived of its soul and spirit, or its divine essence, cannot speak to the human heart. But the identity of the soul and spirit, of real, immortal man as Theosophy teaches us, once proven and become deep rooted in our hearts, would lead us far on the road of real charity and brotherly good will.

The Key to Theosophy , Page 30

March 21

Lead the life necessary for the acquisition of such knowledge and powers, and Wisdom will come to you naturally.

The Secret Doctrine , Volume 1, Page 190

March 22

So long as the double man, i.e., the man of flesh and spirit, keeps within the limits of the law of spiritual continuity, so long as the divine spark lingers in him, however faintly, he is on the road to an immortality in the future state.

Isis Unveiled, Volume 1, Page 327

March 23

The seed of woman, or lust, bruised the head of the seed of the fruit of wisdom, by turning the holy mystery of procreation into animal gratification; hence the Law of Karma “bruise the heel ” of the Atlantean Race, by gradually changing physiologically, morally, physically and mentally, the whole nature of the Fourth Race of mankind, until from being the healthy king of animal creation in the Third Race, man became in the Fifth, our Race, a helpless, scrofulous being, and has now become the wealthiest heir on the Glove to constitutional and hereditary disease, the most consciously and intelligently bestial of all animals!

The Secret Doctrine , Volume 2, Page 429

March 24

The Sixth Principle in Man (Buddhi, the Divine Soul) though a mere breath, in our conceptions, is still something material when compared with Divine Spirit (Atmâ) of which it is the carrier or vehicle.

The Secret Doctrine , Volume 1, Page 144

March 25

The Platonic philosophy was one of order, system , and proportion; it embraced the evolution of worlds and species, the correlation and conversation of energy, the transmutation of material form, the indestructibility of matter and spirit. Their position in the latter respect being far in advance of modern science, and binding the arch of their philosophical system with a keystone at once perfect and immovable.

Isis Unveiled, Volume 1, Page 238

March 26

It is personal selfishness that develops and urges man on to abuse of his knowledge and power. And selfishness is a human building, who window and doors are ever wide open for every kind of iniquity to enter into man's soul.

The Secret Doctrine , Volume 3, Page 50

March 27

Plants would perish in their first stage of existence if they were kept exposed to a constant sunlight; the night alternating with the day is essential to their healthy growth and development. Goodness, likewise, would speedily cease to be such, were it not alternated by its opposite. In human nature, evil denotes the antagonism of matter to the spiritual, and each is accordingly purified thereby. In the cosmos, the equilibrium must be preserved; the operation of the two contraries produces harmony, like the centripetal and centrifugal forces, and each is necessary to the other. If one is arrested, the action of the other will immediately become destructive.

Isis Unveiled, Volume 2, Page 480

March 28

The true Adept, the developed man, must, we are always told, become — he cannot be made. The process is, therefore, one of growth through evolution, and this must necessarily involved a certain amount of pain.

The Theosophist, May, 1885

March 29

The Rosicrucian theory, that the whole universe is a musical instrument, is the Pythagorean doctrine of the music of the spheres, Sounds and colours are all spiritual numerals; as the seven prismatic rays proceed from one spot in heaven, so the seven powers of nature, each of them a number, are the seven radiations of the Unity, the central, spiritual Sun.

Isis Unveiled, Volume 1, Page 514

March 30

To become self-conscious, Spirit must pass through every cycle of being, culminating in its highest point on earth in Man. Spirit per se is an unconscious negative abstraction. Its purity is inherent, not acquired by merit; hence, to become the highest Dhyân Chohan, it is necessary for each Ego to attain to full self-consciousness as a human, i.e.,, conscious, being, which is synthesized for us in Man.

The Secret Doctrine , Volume 1, Page 215

March 31

Christ, the true esoteric Saviour, is no man, but the Divine Principle in every human being. He who strives to resurrect the Spirit crucified in him by his own terrestrial passions, and buried deep in the “sepulchre” of his sinful flesh; he who has the strength to roll back the stone of matter from the door of his inner sanctuary, he has the risen Christ in him.

Lucifer, November, 1887