Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

progress are only the auxiliaries of spiritual progress, without which there could be no physical progress.
Mankind — the majority at any rate — hates to think for itself. It resents as an insult the humblest invitation to step for a moment outside the old well-beaten tracks and, judging for itself, to enter into a new path in some fresh direction.
The Present is only a mathematical line which divides that part of Eternal Duration which we call the Future from that part which we call the Past.
The mind receives indelible impressions even from   chance   acquaintance   or   persons encountered but once. As a few seconds’ exposure of the sensitized photographic plate is all that is requisite to preserve indefinitely the image of the sitter, so is it with the mind.
In each of us that golden thread of continuous life- periodically broken into active and passive cycles of sensuous existence on Earth, and supersensuous in Devachan — is from the beginning of our appearance upon this Earth.
Believing in a spiritual and invisible Universe, we cannot conceive of it in any other way than as completely dovetailing and corresponding with the material, objective universe; for logic and observation alike teach us that the latter is the outcome and visible manifestation of the former, and that the laws governing both are immutable.
Even ignorance is better than head-learning with no soul-wisdom to illuminate and guide it.
Mediumship is the opposite of adeptship; the medium is the passive instrument of foreign influences, the adept actively controls himself and all inferior potencies.
Theosophy teaches self-abnegation, but does not teach rash and useless self-sacrifice, nor does it justify fanaticism.
Between man and the animal — whose Monads, or

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