Helena Blavatsky Quotes

Alchemy is a kind of philosophy: a kind of thinking that leads to a way of understanding.

Now, occultism is not like mystic faculty, and it very seldom works in harmony either with business aptitude in the things of ordinary life or with a knowledge of the canons of evidence in its own sphere.

The Secret Doctrine is the common property of the countless millions of men born under various climates, in times with which History refuses to deal, and to which esoteric teachings assign dates incompatible with the theories of Geology and Anthropology.

The true Philosophy, known and practised by Solomon, is the basis on which Masonry is founded.

In Shankaracharya we saw tremendous intellectual power, throwing the scorching light of reason upon everything.

In theology we must consider the predominance of authority; in philosophy the predominance of reason.

People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

Live and die in Aristotle's works.

I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science.

The ku-magic is a very ancient magic. It predates Taoism, Buddhism and Confucianism.

My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason.

I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physical law.

The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms.

It's wrong to look at what we call 'Enlightenment values' as some fad of the 18th century. It's deeply rooted in ancient history.

When I would hear the rabbi tell about some miracle such as a bush whose leaves were shaking but there wasn't any wind, I would try to fit the miracle into the real world and explain it in terms of natural phenomena.

Two elements are needed to form a truth - a fact and an abstraction.

Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that's their order of importance.

The tarot is sacred.

The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.

My music and lyrics became an extension of this Indian philosophy.

Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental.

When any one tells me, that he saw a dead man restored to life, I immediately consider with myself, whether it be more probable, that this person should either deceive or be deceived, or that the fact, which he relates, should really have happened. I weigh the one miracle against the other; and according to the superiority, which I discover, I pronounce my decision, and always reject the greater miracle.

Science must begin with myths and with the criticism of myth.

We have always a right to correct ancient errors and to establish what is more conformable to reason and convenience