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

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September

Sept 1

There is no more valuable thing possessed by any individual than an exalted ideal towards which he continually aspires, and after which he moulds his thoughts and feelings, and forms, as best he may, his life.

Practical Occultism, Page 87

September 2

Spirit and Matter, though one and the same thing in their origin, when once they are on the plane of differentiation, begin each of them their evolutionary progress in contrary directions — Spirit falling gradually into Matter, and the latter ascending to its original condition, that of a pure spiritual Substance. Both are inseparable, yet ever separated

The Secret Doctrine, Volume 1, Page 267

September 3

Physical man is the musical instrument, and the Ego, the performing artist. The potentiality of perfect melody of sound is in the former — the instrument — and no skill of the latter can awaken a faultless harmony out of broken or badly made instrument. This harmony depends on the fidelity of transmission, by word or act, to the objective plane of the unspoken divine thought in the very depths of man's subjective or inner nature.

Lucifer, November, 1889

September 4

In the case of human incarnations the law of Karma, racial or individual, over-rides the subordinate tendencies of Heredity, its servant.

The Secret Doctrine, Volume 2, Page 188

September 5

In the stillness of the night hours, when our bodily senses are fast locked in the fetters of sleep, and our elementary body rests, the astral form becomes free.

Isis Unveiled, Volume 1, Page 179

September 6

There are persons who never think with the higher faculties of their mind at all; those who do so are the minority and are thus in a way, beyond, if not above, the average of human kind. These will think even upon ordinary matters on that higher plane.

Lucifer, December, 1888

September 7

Theosophists are ever ready to abandon every idea that is proved erroneous upon strictly logical deductions.

Modern Panarion, Page 143

September 8

The seeds of Wisdom cannot sprout in airless space. To live and reap experience, the mind needs breadth and depth and points to draw it towards the Diamond Soul. Seek not those points in Mâyâ's realm; but soar beyond illusions, search the eternal and the changeless Sat, mistrusting fancy's false suggestions.

The Voice of the Silence, Page 43

September 9

Consciousness is a quality of the sentient principle, or in other words, the soul; and the latter often displays activity even while the body is asleep or paralysed. When lift our arm mechanically, we may imagine that we do it unconsciously, because our superficial senses cannot appreciate the interval between the formulation of the purpose and its execution. Latent as it seemed to us, our vigilant will evolved force, and set our matter in motion.

Isis Unveiled, Volume 1, Page 199

September 10

Desire nothing. Chafe not at Karma, nor at Nature's changeless laws. But struggle only with the personal, the transitory, the evanescent and the perishable.

The Voice of the Silence, Page 29

September 11

It is among our commonest experience that the determination of physical life or death depends upon the will. Some people snatch themselves by force of determination from the very jaws of death, while others succumb to insignificant maladies. What man does with his body he can do with his Psuche.

Modern Panarion, Page 139

September 12

The human spirit, being of the Divine, immortal Spirit, appreciates neither past nor future, but sees all things as in the present.

Isis Unveiled, Volume 1, Page 185

September 13

By that higher intuition acquired by Theosophia, or God-Knowledge, which carried the mind from the world of form into that of formless spirit, man has been sometimes enabled in every age and in every country to perceive things in the interior or invisible world.

Modern Panarion, Page 265

September 14

Let not the fierce sun dry one tear of pain before thyself hast wiped it from the sufferer's eye. But each burning human tear drop on thy heart and there remain; nor ever brush it off until the pain that caused it is removed. ..... These tears, O thou of heart, most merciful, these are the streams that irrigate the fields of charity immortal. 'Tis on such soil that grows the midnight blossom of Buddha .... It is the seed of freedom from rebirth.

The Voice of the Silence, Page 28

September 15

The Hermetic axiom, "as below, so above", is the only rule of evidence accepted by the Theosophists.

Modern Panarion, Page 137

September 16

Verily, the esoteric doctrine may well be called in its turn the "thread-doctrine", since, like Sutrâtmân or Pranâtmâm, it passes through and strings together all the ancient philosophical religious systems, and, what is more, reconciles and explains them.

Five Years of Theosophy, Page 126

September 17

Philosophy could never have formed its conception of a logical, universal, and absolute Deity if it had had no Mathematical Point within the Circle upon which to base its speculation. It is only the manifested Point, lost to our senses after its pregenetic appearance in the infinitude and incognisability of the Circle, that makes a reconciliation between Philosophy and Theology possible.

The Secret Doctrine, Volume1, Page 672

September 18

It is only the man of full age, with his faculties disciplined to discern good and evil, whom we can denominate spiritual, noetic,intuitive.

Modern Panarion, Page 138

September 19

As in the primitive days of Socrates and others ages of antiquity, so now, those who are willing to learn the Great Truth will ever find the chance if they only "try" to meet someone to lead them to the door of one "who knows when and how".

Modern Panarion, Page 40

September 20

We sincerely believe that the better portion of humanity will ever bear in mind that there exists a moral code of honour far more binding than an oath, whether on the Bible, Koran, or Veda. The Essenes never swore on anything at all, but their "ayes" and "nays" were as good and far better than an oath.

Isis Unveiled, Volume 2, Page 373

September 21

The astral body, which in this life is covered by a gross physical envelope, becomes, when relieved of that covering by the process of corporeal death, in its turn the shell of another and more ethereal body. This begins developing from the moment of death, and becomes perfected when the astral body of the earthly form finally separates from it. This process, they say, is repeated at every new transition from sphere to sphere

Isis Unveiled, Volume 1, Page 329

September 22

All the past shows us that difficulty is no excuse for dejection, much less for despair, else the world would have been without the many wonders of civilisation.

Practical Occultism, Page 67

September 23

In our opinion, if psychometry is one of the grandest proofs of the indestructibility of matter, retaining eternally the impressions of the outward world, the possession of that faculty by our inner sight is a still greater one in favour of the immortality of man's individual spirit.

Isis Unveiled, Volume 1, Page 186

September 24

All is Life, and every atom of even mineral dust is a Life, though beyond our comprehension and perception, because it is outside the range of the laws known to those who reject Occultism.

The Secret Doctrine, Volume 1, Page 269

September 25

In heavy and robust sleep, dreamless and uninterrupted, upon awakening to outward consciousness, men may sometimes remember nothing. But the impressions of scenes and landscapes which the astral body saw in its peregrinations are still there, though lying latent under the pressure of matter. They may be awakened at any moment, and then during such flashes of man's inner memory there is an instantaneous interchange of energies between the visible and the invisible universe.

Isis Unveiled, Volume 1, Page 179

September 26

....... More mischief has been done by emotional charity than sentimentalists care to face.

Lucifer, December, 1887

September 27

At the birth of the future man, the monad, radiating with all the glory of its immortal parent who watches it from the seventh sphere, becomes senseless. It loses all recollection of the past, and returns to consciousness but gradually, when the instinct of childhood gives way to reason and intelligence.

Isis Unveiled, Volume 1, Page 303

September 28

Hold any object in your hand, and it will become impregnated with your life-atoms, indrawn and outdrawn, changed and transferred in us at every instant of our lives.

Five Years of Theosophy, Page 343

September 29

Throughout the whole mystic literature of the ancient world we detect the same idea of spiritual Esoterism, that the personal God exists within, nowhere outside, the worshipper. That personal Deity is no vain breath, or a fiction, but an immortal Entity, the Initiator of the Initiates ....Like an undercurrent, rapid and clear, it runs without mixing its crystalline purity with the muddy and troubled waters of dogmatism, an enforced anthropomorphic Deity and religious intolerance.

The Secret Doctrine, Volume 3, Page 62

September 30

However often the true nature of the occult training has been stated and explained, few Western students seem to realise how searching and inexorable are the tests which a candidate must pass before power is entrusted to his hands. Esoteric philosophy, the occult hygiene of mind and body, the unlearning of false beliefs, and the acquisition of true habits of thought, are more than sufficient for a student during his period of probation, and those who rashly pledge themselves in the expectation of acquiring forthwith "magic powers", will meet only with disappointment and certain failure.

Lucifer, December, 1888