Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

Jivas, are fundamentally identical — where is the  impassable  abyss  of Mentality  and Self-consciousness… and what is it that creates such difference, unless man is an animal — plus a Having God within his physical shell?
The right motive for seeking self-knowledge is that which pertains to knowledge and not to self. Self-knowledge is worth seeking by virtue of its being knowledge, and not by virtue of its pertaining to self. The main requisite for acquiring self-knowledge is pure love. Seek knowledge for pure love, and self-knowledge eventually crowns the effort.
Eastern wisdom teaches that spirit has to pass through the ordeal of incarnation and life, and to be baptized with matter before it can reach experience and knowledge. After which only it receives    the    baptism    of   soul,    or self-consciousness, and may return to its original condition of a god, plus experience, ending with omniscience. In other words, it can return to the original state of the homogeneity of primordial essence only through the addition of the fruitage of Karma^ which alone is able to create an absolute conscious deity, removed but one degree from the absolute ALL.
Do we not see in history, and even find this within our own experience, that the great kingdoms of the world, after reaching the culmination of their greatness, descend again, in accordance with the same law by which they ascended till, having reached the lowest point, humanity reasserts itself and mounts up once more, the height of its attainment being, by this law of ascending, progression by cycles, somewhat higher than the point from which it had before descended? Kingdoms and empires are under the same cyclic laws as planets, races, and everything else in Kosmos.
Life is

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