Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

reality; for in such case time would not be eternal, or space boundless.
In the Hall of Learning… thy Soul will find the blossoms of life, but under every flower a serpent coiled.
When Paul entitles himself a ‘master-builder’, he is using a word pre-eminently kabalistic, theurgic, and masonic, and one which no other apostle uses. He thus declares himself an adept, having the right to initiate others.
Man, the most perfect of organized beings on earth, in whom matter and spirit—i.e., will— are the most developed and powerful, is alone allowed to give a conscious impulse to that principle which emanates from him; and only he can impart to the magnetic fluid opposite and various impulses without limit as to the direction.
It is an occult law that no man can rise superior to his individual failings without lifting, be it ever so little, the whole body of which he is an integral part. In the same way no one can sin, nor suffer the effects of sin, alone, in reality, there is no such thing as ‘separateness’; and the nearest approach to that selfish state which the laws of life permit is in the intent or motive.
To sum up all in a few words, MAGIC is spiritual WISDOM; nature the material ally, pupil and servant of the magician. One common, vital principle pervades all things, and this is controllable by the perfected human will. The adept can stimulate the movements of the natural forces in plants and animals in a preternatural degree. Such experiments are not obstructions of nature, but quickening; the conditions of intenser vital action are given.
When a planet dies, its informing principles are transferred to a lay a or sleeping centre, with potential but latent energy in it, which is thus awakened into life and begins to form itself into a new

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