Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

as indestructible and eternal as the immortal spirit itself, but only in its particles, and not as organized forms.
To live to benefit mankind is the first step.
After the separation between the life-principle (astral spirit) and the body takes place, the liberated soul—Monad, exulting rejoins the mother and father spirit, the radiant Augoeides, and the two, merged into one, for ever form, with a glory proportioned to the spiritual purity of the past earth life, the Adam who has completed the circle of necessity, and is freed from the last vestige of his physical encasement.
No one should go into Occultism or even touch it before he is perfectly acquainted with his own powers, and that he knows how to commensurate with his actions. And this he can do only by studying the philosophy of Occultism before entering upon the practical training. Otherwise, as sure as fate, he will fall into Black Magic.
The division of the history of mankind into Golden, Silver, Copper, and Iron Ages, is not a fiction. We see the same thing in the literature of peoples. An age of great inspiration and unconscious   productiveness   is   invariably followed by an age of criticism and consciousness. The one affords material for the analysing and critical intellect of the other.
We stand bewildered before the mystery of our own making, and the riddles of life that we will not sol^ve, and then accuse the great Sphinx of devouring us. But, verily, there is not an accident in our lives, not a misshapen day, or a misfortune, that could not be traced back to our own doings in this or in another life. If one breaks the laws of Harmony… the ‘laws of life’, one must be prepared to fall into the chaos oneself has produced.
The doctrine of Metempsychosis has been abundantly

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