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Elena Petrovna Blavátskaya , mais conhecida como Helena Blavatsky ou Madame Blavatsky, foi uma prolífica escritora russa, responsável pela sistematização da moderna Teosofia e cofundadora da Sociedade Teosófica.Personalidade complexa, dinâmica e independente, desde pequena Helena Blavatsky mostrou possuir um caráter forte e dons psíquicos incomuns, e logo em torno dela se formou um folclore doméstico. Imediatamente após um casamento frustrado, deixou o esposo e partiu em um longo período de viagens por todo o mundo em busca de conhecimento filosófico, espiritual e esotérico, e nesse intervalo alegou ter passado por inúmeras experiências fantásticas, entrado em contato com vários mestres de sabedoria ou mahatmas e deles recebido na condição de discípula um treinamento especial para desenvolver seus poderes paranormais de forma controlada, a fim de que pudesse servi-los como instrumento para a instrução do mundo ocidental. A partir de 1873 iniciou sua carreira pública nos Estados Unidos, e em pouco tempo se tornou uma figura tão celebrada quanto polêmica. Exibiu seus poderes psíquicos para grande número de pessoas, deslumbrando a muitos e despertando o ceticismo em outros, que não raro a acusaram de fraude, muitas vezes com boas evidências. Entretanto, em muitos outros casos seus poderes pareceram autênticos. A controvérsia a acompanhou por todo o resto de sua vida e ainda hoje está acesa. Nos Estados Unidos estabeleceu uma duradoura aliança de trabalho e companheirismo com Henry Olcott, com quem fundou a Sociedade Teosófica, e em 1877, Blavatsky publicou sua primeira obra importante, Ísis sem Véu, já tendo escrito antes inúmeros artigos. Pouco depois ela e Olcott transferiram a sede da Sociedade para a Índia, e passaram a viver lá, até que um incidente, o Caso Coulomb, abalou gravemente sua reputação internacional, quando foi declarada culpada de fraude num relatório publicado pela Sociedade de Pesquisas Psíquicas de Londres. Voltou então para a Europa, onde continuou escrevendo e divulgando a Teosofia. Seus anos finais foram difíceis, estava frequentemente adoentada e envolvida em discussões públicas, tinha de administrar a Sociedade que fundara e que crescia rapidamente, e a quantidade de trabalho que se impunha era enorme. Mesmo assim pôde concluir seu livro mais importante, A Doutrina Secreta, uma síntese de História, Ciência, Religião e Filosofia, e deixar outras obras de relevo, além de profusa correspondência e grande coleção de artigos e ensaios.Blavatsky surgiu em um momento histórico em que a religião estava sendo rapidamente desacreditada pelo avanço da Ciência e da Tecnologia, e que testemunhou o nascimento de uma série de escolas de ocultismo ou de pensamento alternativo, muitas delas com base conceitual pouco firme ou desenvolvendo práticas apenas intuitivas, que ganhavam grande número de adeptos em virtude do fracasso do Cristianismo em fornecer explicações satisfatórias para várias questões fundamentais da vida e sobre os processos do mundo natural. A importância da contribuição de Blavatsky foi, então, reafirmar o divino, mas oferecendo caminhos de diálogo com a Ciência e tentando purgar a Religião institucionalizada de seus erros seculares, combatendo o dogmatismo e a superstição de todos os credos e incentivando a pesquisa científica, o pensamento independente e a crítica da fé cega através da razão. Lutou contra todas as formas de intolerância e preconceito, atacou o materialismo e o ceticismo arrogante da ciência, e pregou a fraternidade universal. Sem pretender fundar uma nova religião, sem reivindicar infalibilidade nem se intitulando proprietária ou autora das ideias que trouxe à luz, apresentou ao mundo ocidental uma síntese de conceitos, técnicas e interpretações de uma grande variedade de fontes filosóficas, científicas e religiosas do mundo, antigas e modernas, organizando-as em um corpo de conhecimento estruturado, lógico e coerente que compunha uma visão grandiosa e positiva do universo e do homem. Com isso a Teosofia se tornou, ainda que contestada por vários críticos, um dos mais bem sucedidos sistemas de pensamento eclético da história recente do mundo, unindo formas antigas e novas e provendo pontes entre vários mundos diferentes — sabedoria antiga e pragmatismo moderno, oriente e ocidente, sociedade tradicional e reformas sociais. Influenciou milhares de pessoas em todo o mundo desde que apareceu, desde a população comum a estadistas, líderes religiosos, literatos e artistas, e deu origem a um sem-número de seitas e escolas de pensamento derivativas. Wikipedia  

✵ 31. Julho 1831 – 26. Abril 1891
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Helena Blavatsky Frases famosas

“Meditação, abstinência em tudo, observação dos deveres morais, pensamentos agradáveis, boas ações e palavras amáveis, como também a boa vontade com todos e o total esquecimento do Eu, são os meios mais eficazes de obter conhecimento e preparar-se para a recepção da sabedoria superior.”

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Ocultismo Prático

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“Seja qual for o plano em que nossa consciência esteja agindo, tanto nós como as coisas pertencentes a esse plano são, por enquanto, nossas únicas realidades. À medida que nos elevamos na escala do desenvolvimento, percebemos que, durante os estágios pelos quais passamos, confundimos sombras por realidades, e o progresso ascendente do Ego é uma série de despertares progressivos, cada avanço trazendo consigo a idéia de que agora, Por fim, alcançamos a "realidade"; mas somente quando tivermos alcançado a Consciência absoluta e fundido a nossa com ela, seremos livres das ilusões produzidas por Maya [ilusão].”

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“Se queres colher doce paz e descanso discípulo, semeie com sementes do mérito os campos de futuras colheitas.”

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“O homem faz de si a imagem de seus sonhos.”

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“O potencial da humanidade é infinito e todo ser tem uma contribuição a fazer por um mundo mais grandioso. Estamos todos nele juntos. Somos UM.”

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“A humanidade - pelo menos em sua maioria - detesta refletir, mesmo em benefício próprio. Magoa-se, como se fora um insulto, ao mais humilde convite para sair por um momento das velhas e batidas veredas e, a seu critério, ingressar num novo caminho para seguir alguma outra direção.”

Helena Blavatsky livro A Doutrina Secreta

The Secret Doctrine

Frases sobre a alma de Helena Blavatsky

“O egoísmo pessoal é que excita e estimula o homem a abusar de seus conhecimentos e poderes. O egoísmo é um edifício humano, cujas janelas e portas estão sempre escancaradas para que toda espécie de iniqüidades entre na alma humana.”

Helena Blavatsky livro A Doutrina Secreta

Doutrina Secreta

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“Antes que a alma possa ver, a Harmonia interior deve ser alcançada e os olhos carnais se tornarão cegos para toda a ilusão.”

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“(…) o Essencial é sempre o mesmo. Quer trabalhemos internamente o mármore que oculta, em seu bloco, a estátua, quer empilhemos externamente pedra sobre pedra até completar o templo, nosso NOVO resultado será apenas uma velha idéia. A última de todas as eternidades encontrará na primeira a sua alma gêmea designada.”

Helena Blavatsky

Ísis sem Véu vol. I, Editora Pensamento, 2008.
Ísis Sem Véu

“A mariposa, atraída pela luz do deslumbre de sua lâmpada noturna, está condenada a perecer no azeite viscoso. A alma incauta, que não logra travar tal luta com o demônio burlão da ilusão, retornará a este mundo como escravo do Desejo.
Olha as hostes das Almas. Vê como elas pairam sobre o mar tempestuoso da vida humana. E como, exaustas, sangrando, de asas quebradas, vão caindo, uma após a outra, nas ondas encapeladas. Batidas pelos ventos ferozes, perseguidas pelos vendavais, são arrastadas paras os sorvedouros fatais e somem pelo primeiro vórtice que encontram. Se passando pela Sala da Sabedoria pretendes chegar ao Vale da Felicidade, fecha, discípulo, os teus sentidos á grande e cruel heresia da Separação, que é aquela que te aparta dos demais homens. Tomara que aquilo que em ti é de Origem Divina não se separe, arrastando-te para o mundano mar de Ilusão (…)”

Helena Blavatsky livro A Voz do Silêncio

The Voice of the Silence: Being Extracts from the Book of the Golden Precepts

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“Pense sempre em mim; confie apenas em mim e seguramente estará ao meu lado”.”

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O Ocultismo Prático e as Origens do Ritual na Igreja e na Maçonaria

“A perfeição, para ser tal, tem que sair da imperfeição, o incorruptível tem que desenvolver-se do corruptível, tendo esse último como sua base, veículo e contraste. Luz Absoluta é Obscuridade absoluta, e vice-versa. O Bem e o Mal são gêmeos; nenhum dos dois existe 'per se', pois cada um tem que ser engendrado e criado pelo outro afim de vir a existência. Ambos têm que ser conhecidos e apreciados antes de ser objeto de percepção, daí que a na mente mortal tenham de estar separados.”

Helena Blavatsky livro A Doutrina Secreta

The Secret Doctrine

Perfeição

“O altruísmo é uma parte integral do auto-aperfeiçoamento. Mas temos de discernir. Ninguém tem o direito de inanir-se até a morte para que outrem possa ter alimento, a não ser que a vida deste último obviamente seja mais útil do que a do primeiro. Mas é seu dever sacrificar o próprio conforto e trabalhar pelos outros se estes estão incapacitados para o trabalho.”

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A Chave da Teosofia

De morte , De arte , De vida

“Não há religião superior à verdade.”

Helena Blavatsky livro A Doutrina Secreta

lema da Sociedade Teosofica
Doutrina Secreta, a - Vol. i, Volume 1 - página 64 https://books.google.com.br/books?id=mqqns9jFCcoC&pg=PA64, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Editora Pensamento, ISBN 8531501911, 9788531501913, 342 páginas

De religião , De verdade

Helena Blavatsky: Frases em inglês

“And is there no possibility that there was a period, and several periods, when man existed, and yet was not an organic being — therefore could not have left any vestige of himself for exact science? Spirit leaves no skeletons or fossils behind, and yet few are the men on earth who doubt that man can live both objectively and subjectively. At all events, the theology of the Brahmans, hoary with antiquity, and which divides the formative periods of the earth into four ages, and places between each of these a lapse of 1,728,000 years, far more agrees with official science and modern discovery than the absurd chronological notions promulgated by the Councils of Nice and Trent.”

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Helena Petrovna Blavatsky livro Isis Unveiled

Fonte: Isis Unveiled (1877), Volume II, Chapter IX

“What is imagination? Psychologists tell us that it is the plastic or creative power of the soul; but materialists confound it with fancy. The radical difference between the two, was however, so thoroughly indicated by Wordsworth, in the preface to his Lyrical Ballads, that it is no longer excusable to interchange the words. Imagination, Pythagoras maintained to be the remembrance of precedent spiritual, mental, and physical states, while fancy is the disorderly production of the material brain.”

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Fonte: Isis Unveiled (1877), Volume I, Chapter XI

“There is a phenomenon in nature unknown, and therefore rejected by physiology and psychology in our age of unbelief. This phenomenon is a state of half-death. Virtually, the body is dead; and, in cases of persons in whom matter does not predominate over spirit and wickedness not so great as to destroy spirituality, if left alone, their astral soul will disengage itself by gradual efforts, and, when the last link is broken, it finds itself separated forever from its earthly body. Equal magnetic polarity will violently repulse the ethereal man from the decaying organic mass. The whole difficulty lies in that 1, the ultimate moment of separation between the two is believed to be that when the body is declared dead by science; and 2, a prevailing unbelief in the existence of either soul or spirit in man, by the same science.”

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Fonte: Isis Unveiled (1877), Volume I, Chapter XII

“Science tells us that heat may be shown to develop electricity, electricity produce heat; and magnetism to evolve electricity, and vice versa. Motion, they tell us, results from motion itself, and so on, ad infinitum. This is the A B C of occultism and of the earliest alchemists. The indestructibility of matter and force being discovered and proved, the great problem of eternity is solved.”

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Fonte: Isis Unveiled (1877), Volume I, Chapter VII

“Every one of the numberless religions and religious sects views the Deity after its own fashion; and, fathering on the unknown its own speculations, it enforces these purely human outgrowths of overheated imagination on the ignorant masses, and calls them "revelation." As the dogmas of every religion and sect often differ radically, they cannot be true. And if untrue, what are they?”

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Fonte: Isis Unveiled (1877), Volume II, Chapter II

“"Noah is a revolutio of Adam, as Moses is a revolutio of Abel and Seth," says the Kabala; that is to say, a repetition or another version of the same story. The greatest proof of it is the distribution of the characters in the Bible. For instance, beginning with Cain, the first murderer, every fifth man in his line of descent is a murderer. Thus there come Enoch, Irad, Mehujael, Methuselah, and the fifth is Lamech, the second murderer, and he is Noah's father. By drawing the five-pointed star of Lucifer (which has its crown-point downward) and writing the name of Cain beneath the lowest point, and those of his descendants successively at each of the other points, it will be found that each fifth name — which would be written beneath that of Cain — is that of a murderer. In the Talmud this genealogy is given complete, and thirteen murderers range themselves in line below the name of Cain. This is no coincidence. Siva is the Destroyer, but he is also the Regenerator. Cain is a murderer, but he is also the creator of nations, and an inventor. This star of Lucifer is the same one that John sees falling down to earth in his Apocalypse.”

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Fonte: Isis Unveiled (1877), Volume II, Chapter IX

“The possible truths, hazily perceived in the world of abstraction, like those inferred from observation and experiment in the world of matter, are forced upon the profane multitudes, too busy to think for themselves, under the form of Divine revelation and scientific authority. But the same question stands open from the days of Socrates and Pilate down to our own age of wholesale negation: is there such a thing as absolute truth in the hands of any one party or man? Reason answers, "there cannot be." There is no room for absolute truth upon any subject whatsoever, in a world as finite and conditioned as man is himself. But there are relative truths, and we have to make the best we can of them.”

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Lucifer http://www.katinkahesselink.net/squote/l37.html (February 1888)

“When science shall have effectually demonstrated to us the origin of matter, and proved the fallacy of the occultists and old philosophers who held (as their descendants now hold) that matter is but one of the correlations of spirit, then will the world of skeptics have a right to reject the old Wisdom, or throw the charge of obscenity in the teeth of the old religions.”

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Fonte: Isis Unveiled (1877), Volume I, Chapter XV

“Comparative theology is a two-edged weapon, and has so proved itself. But the Christian advocates, unabashed by evidence, force comparison in the serenest way; Christian legends and dogmas, they say, do somewhat resemble the heathen, it is true; but see, while the one teaches us the existence, powers, and attributes of an all-wise, all-good Father-God, Brahmanism gives us a multitude of minor gods, and Buddhism none whatever; one is fetishism and polytheism, the other bald atheism. Jehovah is the one true God, and the Pope and Martin Luther are His prophets! This is one edge of the sword, and this the other: Despite missions, despite armies, despite enforced commercial intercourse, the "heathen" find nothing in the teachings of Jesus — sublime though some are — that Christna and Gautama had not taught them before. And so, to gain over any new converts, and keep the few already won by centuries of cunning, the Christians give the "heathen" dogmas more absurd than their own, and cheat them by adopting the habit of their native priests, and practicing the very "idolatry and fetishism" which they so disparage in the "heathens."”

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Comparative theology works both ways.
Fonte: Isis Unveiled (1877), Volume II, Chapter XI

“The Buddhists maintain that there is no Creator but an infinitude of creative powers, which collectively form the one eternal substance, the essence of which is inscrutable — hence not a subject for speculation for any true philosopher. Socrates invariably refused to argue upon the mystery of universal being, yet no one would ever have thought of charging him with atheism, except those who were bent upon his destruction. Upon inaugurating an active period, says the Secret Doctrine, an expansion of this Divine essence, from within outwardly, occurs in obedience to eternal and immutable law, and the phenomenal or visible universe is the ultimate result of the long chain of cosmical forces thus progressively set in motion. In like manner, when the passive condition is resumed, a contraction of the Divine essence takes place, and the previous work of creation is gradually and progressively undone. The visible universe becomes disintegrated, its material dispersed; and "darkness," solitary and alone, broods once more over the face of the "deep." To use a metaphor which will convey the idea still more clearly, an outbreathing of the "unknown essence" produces the world; and an inhalation causes it to disappear. This process has been going on from all eternity, and our present universe is but one of an infinite series which had no beginning and will have no end.”

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Fonte: Isis Unveiled (1877), Volume II, Chapter VI

“In the "fall of Adam" we must see, not the personal transgression of man, but simply the law of the dual evolution. Adam, or "Man," begins his career of existences by dwelling in the garden of Eden, "dressed in the celestial garment, which is a garment of heavenly light" (Sohar, ii., 229 b); but when expelled he is "clothed" by God, or the eternal law of Evolution or necessarianism, with coats of skin. But even on this earth of material degradation — in which the divine spark (Soul, a corruscation of the Spirit) was to begin its physical progression in a series of imprisonments from a stone up to a man's body — if he but exercise his WILL and call his deity to his help, man can transcend the powers of the angel. "Know ye not that we shall judge angels?" asks Paul (1 Corinthians, vi. 3). The real man is the Soul (Spirit), teaches the Sohar. "The mystery of the earthly man is after the mystery of the heavenly man… the wise can read the mysteries in the human face"”

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Helena Petrovna Blavatsky livro Isis Unveiled

ii., 76 a
Fonte: Isis Unveiled (1877), Volume II, Chapter VI

“C. W. Leadbeater”

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“Thus, what with several generations of most active Church Fathers ever working at the destruction of old documents and the preparation of new passages to be interpolated in those which happened to survive, there remains of the Gnostics -- the legitimate offspring of the  Archaic Wisdom-religion -- but a few unrecognizable shreds.”

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Helena Petrovna Blavatsky livro The Key to Theosophy

The Key to Theosophy (1889)

“Valuing freedom of thought above all things as the only way of reaching at some future time that Wisdom, of which every Theosophist ought to be enamored, we recognize the right to the same freedom in our foes as in our friends.”

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Fonte: The Key to Theosophy (1889)

“This is the age which, although proclaimed as one of physical and moral freedom, is in truth the age of the most ferocious moral and mental slavery, the like of which was never known before.”

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The Key to Theosophy (1889)

“Because it has Societies for the prevention of physical cruelty to animals,and none with the object of preventing the moral cruelty practiced on human beings. Because it encourages, legally and tacitly, vice under every form, from the sale of whiskey down to forced prostitution and theft brought on by starvation wages...”

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The Key to Theosophy (1889)

“Mankind will be saved from the terrible dangers, both mental and bodily, which are inevitable when that unfolding takes place, as it threatens to do, in a hot-bed of selfishness and all evil passions. Man’s mental and psychic growth will proceed in harmony with his moral improvement, while his material surroundings will reflect the peace and fraternal goodwill which will reign in his mind, instead of the discord and strife which is everywhere apparent around us today.”

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The Key to Theosophy (1889)

“Through its teaching, through the philosophy which it has rendered accessible and intelligible to the modern mind, the West will learn to understand and appreciate the East at its true value. Further, the development of the psychic powers and faculties, the premonitory symptoms of which are already visible in America, will proceed healthily and normally.”

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The Key to Theosophy (1889)

“The Society will live on into and through the twentieth century. It will gradually leaven and permeate the great mass of thinking and intelligent people with its large-minded and noble ideas of Religion, Duty, and Philanthropy. Slowly but surely it will burst asunder the iron fetters of creeds and dogmas, of social and caste prejudices; it will break down racial and national antipathies and barriers, and will open the way to the practical realization of the Brotherhood of all men.”

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The Key to Theosophy (1889)

“We have to contend against... the hatred of the Spiritualists... the constant opposition of the clergy of all denominations... especially the relentless hatred and persecution of the missionaries in India.”

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The Key to Theosophy (1889)

“You must bear in mind how many powerful adversaries we have aroused ever since the formation of our Society... Intrinsically, Theosophy is the most serious movement of this age; and one, moreover, which threatens the very life of most of the time-honoured humbugs, prejudices, and social evils of the day—those evils which fatten and make happy the upper ten and their imitators and sycophants, the wealthy dozens of the middle classes, while they positively crush and starve out of existence the millions of the poor.”

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The Key to Theosophy (1889)

“We hold that a good book which gives people food for thought, which strengthens and clears their minds, and enables them to grasp truths which they have dimly felt but could not formulate—we hold that such a book does a real, substantial good.”

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Fonte: The Key to Theosophy (1889)

“The Christian virtues inculcated by Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount are nowhere exemplified in the Christian world... Meanwhile the vices which coarse-mouthed slanderers have attributed to Paganism, are current everywhere among Christian Fathers and Christian Churches.”

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Helena Petrovna Blavatsky livro Isis Unveiled

Fonte: Isis Unveiled (1877), Volume II, Chapter X

“The light of Christianity has only served to show how much more hypocrisy and vice its teachings have begotten in the world since its advent, and how immensely superior were the ancients over us in every point of honor.”

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Fonte: Isis Unveiled (1877), Volume II, Chapter X

“We can assert, with entire plausibility, that there is not one of all these sects — Kabalism, Judaism, and our present Christianity included — but sprung from the two main branches of that one mother-trunk, the once universal religion, which antedated the Vedaic ages — we speak of that prehistoric Buddhism which merged later into Brahmanism.The religion which the primitive teaching of the early few apostles most resembled — a religion preached by Jesus himself — is the elder of these two, Buddhism. The latter as taught in its primitive purity, and carried to perfection by the last of the Buddhas, Gautama, based its moral ethics on three fundamental principles. It alleged that 1, every thing existing, exists from natural causes; 2, that virtue brings its own reward, and vice and sin their own punishment; and, 3, that the state of man in this world is probationary... However puzzling the subsequent theological tenets; however seemingly incomprehensible the metaphysical abstractions which have convulsed the theology of every one of the great religions of mankind as soon as it was placed on a sure footing, the above is found to be the essence of every religious philosophy, with the exception of later Christianity. It was that of Zoroaster, of Pythagoras, of Plato, of Jesus, and even of Moses, albeit the teachings of the Jewish law-giver have been so piously tampered with.”

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Fonte: Isis Unveiled (1877), Volume II, Chapter III

“For, while the heart is full of thoughts for a little group of selves, near and dear to us, how shall the rest of mankind fare in our souls? What percentage of love and care will there remain to bestow on the “great orphan?””

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And how shall the “still small voice” make itself heard in a soul entirely occupied with its own privileged tenants? What room is there left for the needs of Humanity en bloc...?   He who would profit by the wisdom of the universal mind, has to reach it through the whole of Humanity without distinction of race, complexion, religion, or social status. It is altruism, not ego-ism even in its most legal and noble conception, that can lead the unit to merge its little Self in the Universal Selves. It is... to this work that the true disciple of true Occultism has to devote himself if he would obtain...  divine Wisdom and Knowledge. p. 62
Practical Occultism (1888)

“Perhaps the Church of Rome was but consistent in choosing as her titular founder the apostle who thrice denied his master at the moment of danger; and the only one, moreover, except Judas, who provoked Christ in such a way as to be addressed as the "Enemy." "Get thee behind me, Satan!"”

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Helena Petrovna Blavatsky livro Isis Unveiled

exclaims Jesus, rebuking the taunting apostle.(Gospel according to Mark, viii. 33.) There is a tradition in the Greek Church which has never found favor at the Vatican. The former traces its origin to one of the Gnostic leaders — Basilides, perhaps, who lived under Trajan and Adrian, at the end of the first and the beginning of the second century. With regard to this particular tradition, if the Gnostic is Basilides, then he must be accepted as a sufficient authority, having claimed to have been a disciple of the Apostle Matthew, and to have had for master Glaucias, a disciple of St. Peter himself...

Chapter III
Isis Unveiled (1877), Volume II

“Slavery to State and men has disappeared only to make room for slavery to things and Self, to one's own vices and idiotic social customs and ways. Rapid civilization, adapted to the needs of the higher and middle classes, has doomed by contrast to only greater wretchedness the starving masses.”

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Helena Petrovna Blavatsky livro The Key to Theosophy

The Key to Theosophy (1889)

“Truth, high-seated upon its rock of adamant, is alone eternal and supreme.”

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Helena Petrovna Blavatsky livro Isis Unveiled

Isis Unveiled (1877), Vol. I Preface