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Isis Unveiled
Helena P. Blavatsky

1 "The undercurrent of this world is set toward one goal; and inside of humanity is a power almost infinite, a holy faith capable of apprehending the supremest truths of all existence."

2 "Not a nation, not a people, nor the most abject tribe, but after their own fashion has believed in an Unseen God, the First cause of unerring and immutable laws, and in the immortality of our spirit. No creed, no false philosophy, no religious exaggerations, could ever destroy that feeling. It must, therefore, be based upon an absolute truth."

3 "Space is not an empty void, but a reservoir filled with the models of all things that ever were, that are, and that will be."

4 "Matter is nothing more than the.. effect of the emanative energy of the Deity."

5 "Every..symbol is an embodied idea, - combining the conception of the Divine Invisible with the earthly and visible."

6 "The forces of the universe are ever in perfect harmony with the one great Immutable Law."

7 "There is but one Magnet in the universe, and from it proceeds the magnetization of everything existing."

8 "Simple common sense precludes the possibility that the universe is the result of mere chance."

9 "There is a Supreme God who produced in his own mind a 'paradeigma' of all things."

10 "There is a canon of interpretation, which should guide us in our examinations of every philosophical opinion: The human mind has, under the necessary operation of its own laws, been compelled to entertain the same fundamental ideas, and the human heart to cherish the same feelings in all ages."

11 "The myth is the undisclosed thought of the soul. The characteristic trait of the myth is to convert reflection into history."

12 "It is undeniable that the theologies of all the great nations dovetail together and show that each is a part of one stupendous whole."

13 "God formed things as they first arose according to forms and numbers." Plato, 'Timaeus'

14 "Everything is drawn to its like, and converges with natures congenial to itself. Out of this sympathy and antipathy arises a constant movement in the whole world, and in all its parts, and uninterrupted communion which produces universal harmony. …one thing affects another one, even at great distances, notwithstanding the intervening space."

15 "Even so small a thing as the birth of one child upon our planet has its effect upon the universe, as the whole universe has its own reactive influence upon him."

16 "Deity is the central and immortal germ of all that exists in the universe."

17 "Of all the duties, the principal one is to acquire the knowledge of the supreme soul (the spirit); it is the first of all sciences."

18 "It is undeniable that the theologies of all the great nations dovetail together and show that each is a part of one stupendous whole."

19 "God blesses equally every beast of the field and every living creature, and He endows them all with Life, which is a breath of His own Spirit."

20 "One is the Spirit of the living God, blessed be His Name, who lives forever!" 'Sepher Jezireh', the kabalistic Book of Creation

21 "As the Soul of the World permeates the whole Cosmos, even beasts must have in them something divine."

22 "Every imagination of humanity comes through the heart, for this is the sun of the microcosm, and out of the microcosm proceeds the imagination into the great world….the imagination of humanity is a seed."

23 "The human mind has, under the necessary operation of its own laws, been compelled to entertain the same fundamental ideas, and the human heart to cherish the same feelings in all ages."

24 "You have in yourself something similar to God, and therefore use yourself as the temple of God."

25 "A person's idea of God is that image of blinding light that he sees reflected in the concave mirror of his own soul."

This body of quotes compiled by JoAnn Kite