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"There is often greater martyrdom to live for the love of, whether man or an ideal, than to die" is a motto of the Mahatmas.
Maitreya is the secret name of the Fifth Buddha, and the Kalki Avatar of the Brahmins - the last Messiah who will come at the culmination of the Great Cycle.
Where two women meet, there a market springs; where three congregate, a bazaar is opened; and where seven talk, there begins a fair.
Gems from the East (1890)
Inaction in a deed of mercy becomes an action in a deadly sin.
There is no religion higher than truth.
The rabble has been the same in all ages. Materialism has been, and will ever be blind to spiritual truths.
Suicide is the worst of crimes and dire in its results.
The sun is one, but its beams are numberless; and the effects produced are beneficent or maleficent, according to the nature and constitution of the objects they shine upon.
Even in our day, science suspects beyond the Polar seas, at the very circle of the Arctic Pole, the existence of a sea which never freezes and a continent which is ever green.
Thou shalt not accept gold or silver.
Astrology is a science as infallible as astronomy itself, with the condition, however, that its interpreters must be equally infallible; and it is this condition, sine qua non, so very difficult of realization, that has always proved a stumbling block to both.
Isis Unveiled: A Master-Key to the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Science and Theology (1877)
The discoveries of modern science do not disagree with the oldest traditions which claim an incredible antiquity for our race. Chapter I
Spiritual holy love is immortal, and Karma brings sooner or later all those who loved each other with such a spiritual affection to incarnate once more in the same family group.
The Key to Theosophy (1889)
This is the age which, although proclaimed as one of physical and moral freedom, is in truth the age of the most ferocious moral and mental slavery, the like of which was never known before.
The Key to Theosophy (1889)
The Higher Self is Atma, the inseparable ray of the Universal and One Self. It is the God above, more Self is than within, us. Happy the man who succeeds in saturating his inner Ego with it!
The Key to Theosophy (1889)
What is light to us is darkness to certain insects, and the eye of the clairvoyant sees illumination where the normal eye perceives only blackness. p. 41
The Secret Doctrine Volume I — Cosmogenesis (1888)
Both of the Mimansas, treating of the most abstruse questions, explain Karma as merit, or the efficacy of works; Isvara-Parasada, as grace; and Sradha, as faith. p. 591
Isis Unveiled: A Master-Key to the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Science and Theology (1877)
She it was who first took man to the Tree of Knowledge, and made him know Good and Evil; and, if she had been let alone and allowed to do what she wished, she would have led him to the Tree of Life and thus rendered him immortal.
Theosophy seeks to develop the human nature in man in addition to the animal, and at the sacrifice of the superfluous animality which modern life and materialistic teachings have developed to a degree which is abnormal for the human being at this stage of his progress.
Higher Self. The Supreme Divine Spirit overshadowing man. The crown of the upper spiritual Triad in man—Atmân.
The Theosophical Glossary (1892)