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

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October

October 1

Every star is an independent planet, which, like our earth, has a soul of its own, every atom of matter being impregnated with the divine influx of the soul of the world. It breathes and lives; it feels and suffers as well as enjoys life in its way.

Isis Unveiled, Volume 1, Page XXVII

October 2

The exercise of magical power is the exercise of powers natural, but superior to the ordinary functions of Nature.

Modern Panarion, Page 57

October 3

A man can have no god that is not bounded by his own human conception. The wider the sweep of his spiritual vision, the mightier will be his deity. But where can we find a better demonstration of Him than in man himself — in the spiritual and divine powers lying dormant in every human being?

Isis Unveiled, Volume 2, Page 567

October 4

For what is an "authority" upon any question, after all? No more, really, than a light streaming upon a certain object through one single, more or less wide, chink, and illuminating it from one side only.

Lucifer, September, 1892

October 5

The adept can control the sensations and alter the conditions of the physical and astral bodies of other persons not adepts; he can also govern and employ, as he chooses, the spirits of the elements. He cannot control the immortal spirit of any human being, living or dead, for all such spirits are alike sparks of the Divine Essence, and not subject to any foreign domination.

Isis Unveiled, Volume 2, Page 590

October 6

Self-sacrifice has to be performed with discrimination, and ... if made without justice, or blindly, regardless of subsequent results, may often prove not only to have been made in vain, but even to be harmful.

The Key to Theosophy, Page 160

October 7

Prompted by the Law of Eternal Evolution and Karma, the Angel incarnated on Earth in Man; and as his Wisdom and Knowledge are still divine, although his Body is earthly, he is (allegorically) accused of divulging the Mysteries of Heaven. He combines and uses the two for purposes of human, instead of super-human, procreation. Henceforth "man will beget, not create". But, as, by so doing, he has to use his weak Body as the means of procreation, that Body will pay the penalty for this Wisdom, carried from Heaven down to the Earth; hence the corruption of physical purity will become a temporary curse.

Secret Doctrine, Volume 2, Page 296

October 8

There can be no permanent rest an happiness as long as there is some work to be done, and not accomplished, and the fulfilment of duties brings its own reward.

Practical Occultism, Page 74

October 9

Fohat, in his capacity of Divine Love (Eros), the electric power of affinity and sympathy, is shown allegorically, trying to bring the pure Spirit, the Ray inseparable from the One Absolute, into union with the Soul, the two constituting in Man the Monad, and in Nature the first links between the ever-unconditioned and the manifested.

The Secret Doctrine, Volume 1, Page 144

October 10

The trinity of nature is the lock of magic, the trinity of man the key that fits it.

Isis Unveiled, Volume 2, Page 635

October 11

The Ineffable name, in the search for which so many kabalists, unacquainted with any Oriental or even European adept, vainly consume their knowledge and lives, dwells latent in the heart of every man. This mirific name, which, according to the most ancient oracles, "rushes into the infinite worlds", can be obtained in a two-fold way; by regular initiation, and through the "small voice", which Elijah heard in the cave of Horeb, the mount of God.

Isis Unveiled, Volume 2, Page 343

October 12

Occultism asserts the eternal individuality of the soul, the imperishable force which is the cause and sustaining power of all organisation.

Modern Panarion, Page 78

October 13

Man and soul had to conquer their immortality by ascending toward the unity with which, if successful, they were finally linked, and into which they were absorbed, so to say.

Isis Unveiled, Volume 1, Page 315

October 14

To be without personal desires is to be free and happy, and "Heaven" can mean nothing else but a state in which freedom and happiness exists.

Practical Occultism, Page 74

October 15

Fairy tales do not exclusively belong to nurseries; all mankind — except those few who in all ages have comprehended their hidden meaning and tried to open the eyes of the superstitious — have listened to such tales in one shape or the other, and, after transforming them into sacred symbols, called the product Religion!

Isis Unveiled, Volume 2, Page 406

October 16

The idea of Universal Life, composed of individual atomic lives, is one of the oldest teachings of esoteric philosophy

Lucifer, April, 1890

October 17

Be humble, it thou wouldst attain to Wisdom. Be humbler still, when Wisdom thou has mastered

The Voice of the Silence, Page 58

October 18

Cosmic Ideation, focused in a Principle, or Upâdhi (Basis), results as the consciousness of the individual Ego. Its manifestation varies with the degree of the Upâdhi. For instance, through that known as Manas, it wells up as Mind-Consciousness; through the more finely differentiated fabric (six state of matter) of Buddhi — resting on the experience of Manas as its basis — as a stream of Spiritual Intuition.

The Secret Doctrine, Volume 1, Page 351

October 19

That knowledge is real which lasts, and that is unreal which passes away.

Modern Panarion, Page 452

October 20

Friends and foes! Criticism is the sole salvation from intellectual stagnation. It is the beneficent goad which stimulates to life and action — hence to healthy changes — the heavy ruminants called Routine and Prejudice, in private as in social life.

Lucifer, September, 1892

October 21

Nirvana is the world of cause, in which all deceptive effects or delusions or our senses disappear.

Isis Unveiled, Volume 1, Page 346

October 22

The harmony which geometry and mathematics — the only exact sciences — demonstrate to be the law of the universe, would be destroyed if evolution were perfectly exemplified in man alone and limited in the subordinate kingdoms ......... Harmony is the great law of nature

Isis Unveiled, Volume 1, Page 330

October 23

If Sun thou canst not be, then be the humble planet. ...... Give light and comfort to the toiling pilgrim, and seek out him who knows still less than thou; who in his wretched desolation sits starving for the bread of Wisdom and the bread which feeds the shadow, without a Teacher, hope or consolation, and — let him hear the Law.

The Voice of the Silence, Page 55

October 24

The "Fallen Angels", so-called, are Humanity itself. The Demon of Pride, Lust, Rebellion and Hatred, had no being before the appearance of physical conscious man. It is man who has begotten and nurtured the fiend, and allowed it to develop in his heart; it is he, again, who has contaminated the Indwelling God in himself, by linking the pure Spirit with the impure Demon of Matter. And, if the Kabalistic saying, Daemon est Deus inversus", finds its metaphysical and theoretical corroboration in dual manifested Nature, nevertheless, its practical application is found in Mankind alone.

The Secret Doctrine, Volume 2, Page 287

October 25

One must first of all recognise one's own immortal Principle, and then only can one conquer, or take the Kingdom of Heaven by violence.

The Secret Doctrine, Volume 3, Page 63

October 26

Search for the Paths. But, O Lanoo, be of clean heart before thou started on thy journey. Before thou takest thy first step, learn to discern the real from the false, the ever-fleeting from the everlasting. Learn above all to separate Head-learning from Soul-wisdom, the "Eye" from the "Heart" doctrine.

The Voice of the Silence, Page 42

October 27

This war (the war between Spirit and Matter) will last till the Inner and Divine Man adjusts his outer terrestrial self to his own spiritual nature. Till then the dark and fierce passions of that self will be at eternal feud with his Master, the Divine Man. But the animal will be tamed one day, because its nature will be changed, and harmony will reign once more between the two as before the "Fall", when even mortal man was "created" by the Elements and was not born.

The Secret Doctrine, Volume 2, Page 280

October 28

...... The knowledge of these primary causes, and of the ultimate essence of every Element, of its Lives, their functions, properties, and conditions of change, constitutes the basis of Magic.

The Secret Doctrine, Volume 1, Page 284

October 29

It is owing to this rebellion of intellectual life against the morbid inactivity of pure spirit, that we are what we are — self conscious, thinking men, with the capabilities and attributes of Gods in us, for good as much as for evil. Hence the Rebels are our Saviours

The Secret Doctrine, Volume 2, Page 108

October 30

In human nature, evil denotes only the polarity of Matter and Spirit, a "struggle for life" between the two manifested Principles of Space and Time, which Principles are one per se, inasmuch as they are rooted in the Absolute. In Cosmos, the equilibrium must be preserved. The operation of the two contraries produce harmony, like the centripetal and centrifugal forces, which, being mutually inter-dependent, are necessary to each other "in order that both should live". If one should be arrested, the action of the other would become immediately self-destructive.

The Secret Doctrine, Volume 1, Page 448

October 31

The tree is known by its fruits; and as all theosophists have to be judged by their deeds, and not by what they write or say, so all theosophical books must be accepted on their merits, and not according to any claim to authority which they may put forward.

The Key to Theosophy, Page 191