Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

to act, for it is Action itself. It is not the wave which drowns a man, but the personal action of the wretch who goes deliberately and places himself under the impersonal action of the laws that govern the ocean’s motion.
The ‘Doctrine of the Eye’ is for the crowd; the ‘Doctrine of the Heart’ for the elect. The first repeat in pride, ‘Behold, I know’; the last, they who in humbleness have garnered, low confess: Thus have I heard.’
Real philosophy cannot make any choice arbitrarily; there is but one eternal verity, and, in pursuit of that, thought is forced to travel along one road. 
For this ‘Astral’, the shadowy ‘double’ (in the animal as in man), is not the companion of the divine Ego, but of the earthly body. It is the link between the personal SELF, the lower consciousness of Manas and the body, and is the vehicle of transitory, not of immortal life. 
The immediate work, whatever it may be, has the abstract claim of duty, and its relative importance or non-importance is not to be considered at all.
Every Theosophist.-.is bound to do his utmost to help on, by all the means in his power, every wise and well-considered social effort which has for its object the amelioration of the condition of the poor.
From Gods to men, from Worlds to atoms, from a Star to a rush-light, from the Sun to the vital heat of the meanest organic being — the world of Form and Existence is an immense chain, the links of which are all connected. The Law of Analogy is the first key to the world problem, and these links have to be studied coordinately in their Occult relations to each other.
If, on the one hand, a great portion of the educated public is running into atheism and scepticism, on the other hand we find an evident current of mysticism forcing its way

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