Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

acquired by merit; hence, to become the highest Dhyan Chohan, it is necessary for each Ego to attain to full self-consciousness as a human, i.e., conscious, being which is synthesized for us in Man.
The pivotal doctrine of the Esoteric philosophy admits no privileges or special gifts in man save those won by his own Ego through personal effort and merit throughout a long series of metempsychoses and reincarnations.
Adverse opinions are like conflicting winds which brush from the quiet surface of a lake the green scum that tends to settle upon still waters.
Physical organic progress is effected through hereditary transmission; spiritual organic progress by transmigration.
Spiritual culture is attained through concentration. It must be continued daily and every moment to be of use. Meditation has been defined as ‘the cessation of active external thought’.  Concentration is the entire life tendency to a given end.
The Tall’ is a universal allegory. It sets forth at one end of the ladder of Evolution the ‘rebellion’, i.e., the action of differentiating intellection, or consciousness, on its various planes, seeking union with Matter; and at the other, the lower end, the rebellion of Matter against Spirit, or of action against spiritual inertia.
In the twentieth century of our era scholars will begin to recognize that the Secret Doctrine has neither been invented, nor exaggerated, but on the contrary, simply outlined; and finally, that its teachings antedate the Vedas.
For mind is like a mirror; it gathers dust while it reflects. It needs the gentle breezes of Soul-wisdom to brush away the dust of our illusions. Seek, 0 Beginner, to blend thy Mind and Soul.
Man-spirit proves God-spirit, as the one drop of water proves a source from which it must have

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