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Science, dimly perceiving the truth, may find Bacteria and other infinitesimals in the human body, and see in them but occasional and abnormal visitors to which diseases are attributed. Occultism -- which discerns a life in every atom and molecule, whether in a mineral or human body, in air, fire or water -- affirms that our whole body is built of such lives, the smallest bacteria under the microscope being to them in comparative size like an elephant to the tiniest infusoria.

— Helena Blavatsky

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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.

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All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.

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To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.

Henri Poincaré Science and Hypothesis (1901)

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