Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

theosophist or not, and does not undertake his defence as he would undertake his own — is no Theosophist.
Intimately, or rather indissolubly, connected with Karma, then, is the law of rebirth or of the reincarnation of the same spiritual individuality in a   long,   almost   interminable,   series   of personalities. The latter are like the various costumes and characters played by the same actor, with each of which that actor identifies himself and is identified by the public, for the space of a few hours.
Nature is triune; there is a visible, objective nature; an invisible, indwelling, energizing nature, the exact model of the other, and its vital principle; and, above these two, spirit, source of all forces, alone eternal and indestructible. The lower two constantly change; the higher third does not.
One single journey to the Orient, made in the proper spirit, and the possible emergencies arising from the meeting of what may seem no more than the chance acquaintances and adventures of any traveller, may quite as likely as not throw wide open to the zealous student the heretofore closed doors of the final mysteries … and is sure to produce more rapid, better, and far more practical results than the most diligent study of Occultism in books.
We live in an atmosphere of gloom and despair … because our eyes are downcast and riveted to the earth, with all its physical and grossly material manifestations. If instead of that, man, proceeding on his life journey, looked — not heavenward, which is but a figure of speech — but within himself, and centred his point of observation on the inner man, he would soon escape from the coils of the great serpent of illusion.
Magic, as a science, is the knowledge of these principles and of the

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