Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

Consciousness, i.e., that Essence which is out of all relation to conditioned existence is a conditioned symbol. But once that we pass in thought from this (to us) Absolute Negation, duality supervenes in the contrast of Spirit (or Consciousness) and Matter, Subject and Object.
A man’s idea of God is that image of blinding light that he sees reflected in the concave mirror of his own soul, and yet this is not, in very truth, God, but only His reflection. His glory is there, but it is the light of his own Spirit that the man sees, and it is all he can bear to look upon. The clearer the mirror the brighter will be the diwne image. But the external world cannot be witnessed in it at the same moment.
Would the principle of continuity, which exists even for the so-called inorganic matter, for a floating atom, be denied to the spirit, whose attributes are consciousness, memory, mind, LOVE? Really, the very idea is preposterous.
Restrain by thy Divine thy lower self. Restrain by the Eternal the Divine. Aye, great is he, who is the slayer of desire. Still greater is he, in whom the Self Divine has slain the very knowledge of desire.
It is a fundamental law in Occultism, that there is no rest or cessation of motion in Nature. That which seems rest is only the change of one form into another: the change of substance going hand in hand with that of form — as we are taught in Occult physics.
Physical Nature, when left to herself in the creation of animal and man, is shown to have failed. She can produce the first two kingdoms, as well as that of the lower animals, but when it comes to the turn of man, spiritual, independent and intelligent powers are required for his creation, besides the ‘coats of skin’ and the ‘breath of animal life’.
Occultism tells us

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