Top 50 H. P. Blavatsky Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “There is no religion higher than Truth.”

— H. P. Blavatsky

2. “It is Satan who is the God of our planet and the only God.”

— H. P. Blavatsky

3. “And now it stands proven that Satan, or the Red Fiery Dragon, the ‘Lord of Phosphorus,’ and Lucifer, or ‘Light-Bearer,’ is in us: it is our Mind.”

— H. P. Blavatsky

4. “Matter is spirit at its lowest level. Spirit is matter at its highest level.”

— H. P. Blavatsky

5. “Patience leads to power; but eagerness in greed leads to loss.”

— H. P. Blavatsky

6. “Theosophy, on earth, is like the white ray of the spectrum, and each religion only one of the seven colours.”

— H. P. Blavatsky

7. “The mind is the slayer of the real, let the disciples slay the slayer.”

— H. P. Blavatsky

8. “Hast thou attuned thyself to the suffering of humanity, O candidate for light?”

— H. P. Blavatsky

9. “Theosophy is who Theosophy does, not thinks, not studies, not feels but does.”

— H. P. Blavatsky

10. “The Universe is the periodical manifestation of this unknown Absolute Essence.”

— H. P. Blavatsky

11. “Time is only an illusion produced by the succession of our states of consciousness as we travel through eternal duration, and it does not exist where no consciousness exists in which the illusion can be produced; but “lies asleep.””

— H. P. Blavatsky

12. “Civilization may progress, human nature will remain the same throughout all ages.”

— H. P. Blavatsky

13. “Everything lives and perishes through magnetism; one thing affects another one, even at great distances, and its “congenitals” may be influenced to health and disease by the power of this sympathy, at any time, and notwithstanding the intervening space.”

— H. P. Blavatsky

14. “Reflect upon the defects of your character: thoroughly realize their evils and the transient pleasures they give you, and firmly will that you shall try your best not to yield to them the next time.”

— H. P. Blavatsky

15. “The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire – the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale.”

— H. P. Blavatsky

16. “Endurance is the free companion of Sorrow, and Patience her master.”

— H. P. Blavatsky

17. “We see that every external motion, act, gesture, whether voluntary or mechanical, organic or mental, is produced and preceded by internal feeling or emotion, will or volition, and thought or mind.”

— H. P. Blavatsky

18. “Be humble, if thou would’st attain to wisdom. Be humbler still, when wisdom thou hast mastered.”

— H. P. Blavatsky

19. “All things that ever were, that are, or that will be, having; their record upon the astral light, or tablet of the unseen universe, the initiated adept, by using the vision of his own spirit, can know all that has been known or can be known.”

— H. P. Blavatsky

20. “The human mind can hardly remain entirely free from bias, and decisive opinions are often formed before a thorough examination of a subject from all its aspects has been made.”

— H. P. Blavatsky

21. “Knowledge increases in proportion to its use; that is, the more we teach the more we learn.”

— H. P. Blavatsky

22. “Dogma? Faith? These are the right and left pillars of every soul-crushing theology. Theosophists have no dogmas, exact no blind faith.”

— H. P. Blavatsky

23. “Is the scraping off of a barnacle the destruction of a ship?”

— H. P. Blavatsky

24. “Strength your Soul against the stalk of the Ego, make it worth of the name of Diamond Soul.”

— H. P. Blavatsky

25. “I have pledged my word to help people on to truth while living and – will keep my word. Let them abuse and revile me. Let some call me a medium, and a Spiritualist, and others an imposter. The day will come when posterity will learn to know me better.”

— H. P. Blavatsky

26. “Spiritualism is but a baby now, an unwelcome stranger, whom public opinion, like an unnatural foster mother, tries to crush out of existence.”

— H. P. Blavatsky

27. “The man might have become a Power, but he preferred to remain an Ass.”

— H. P. Blavatsky

28. “Theosophy blesses the world; Theology is its curse.”

— H. P. Blavatsky

29. “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.”

— H. P. Blavatsky

30. “Everything that is, was, and will be, eternally IS, even the countless forms, which are finite and perishable only in their objective, not in their ideal Form.”

— H. P. Blavatsky

31. “That cruelest of tyrants – public opinion.”

— H. P. Blavatsky

32. “It is on the acceptance or rejection of the theory of the Unity of all in Nature, in its ultimate Essence, that mainly rests the belief or unbelief in the existence around us of other conscious beings besides the Spirits of the Dead.”

— H. P. Blavatsky

33. “Ridicule is the deadliest weapon of the age...”

— H. P. Blavatsky

34. “Becoming is the mode of activity of the uncreate deity.”

— H. P. Blavatsky

35. “Dogmas are the toys that amuse and can satisfy but unreasoning children. They are the offspring of human speculation and prejudiced fancy.”

— H. P. Blavatsky

36. “The discoveries of modern science do not disagree with the oldest traditions which claim an incredible antiquity for our race.”

— H. P. Blavatsky

37. “The idea of passing one’s whole life in moral idleness, and having one’s hardest work and duty done by another-whether God or man-is most revolting to us, as it is most degrading to human dignity.”

— H. P. Blavatsky

38. “But the first differentiation of its reflection in the manifested World is purely Spiritual, and the Beings generated in it are not endowed with a consciousness that has any relation to the one we conceive of.”

— H. P. Blavatsky

39. “If coming events are said to cast their shadows before, past events cannot fall to leave their impress behind them.”

— H. P. Blavatsky

40. “Public Opinion, this invisible, intangible, omnipresent, despotic tyrant; this thousand-headed Hydra – the more dangerous for being composed of individual mediocrities...”

— H. P. Blavatsky

41. “The Occultists, however, know that the traditions of Esoteric Philosophy must be the right ones, simply because they are the most logical, and reconcile every difficulty.”

— H. P. Blavatsky

42. “Who is the great man? He who is strongest in patience. He who patiently endures injury, and maintains a blameless life – he is a man indeed!”

— H. P. Blavatsky

43. “We must prepare and study truth under every aspect, endeavoring to ignore nothing, if we do not wish to fall into the abyss of the unknown when the hour shall strike.”

— H. P. Blavatsky

44. “From Architecture down to the Zodiac, every science worthy of the name was imported by the Greeks.”

— H. P. Blavatsky

45. “If thou would’st have that stream of hard-earn’d knowledge, of Wisdom heaven-born, remain sweet running waters, thou should’st not leave it to become a stagnant pond.”

— H. P. Blavatsky

46. “The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet.”

— H. P. Blavatsky

47. “But – drive out prejudice with a pitch-fork it will ever return.”

— H. P. Blavatsky

48. “How long shall we Spiritualists be turned over like so many scapegoats to the unbelievers, by cheating mediums and speculating prophets?”

— H. P. Blavatsky

49. “The wheel of the Good Law moves swiftly on. It grinds by night and day. The worthless husks it drives from out the golden grain, the refuse from the flour. The hand of fate guides the wheel; the revolutions mark the beatings of the heart of manifestation.”

— H. P. Blavatsky

50. “It is, then, by those shadows of the hoary Past and their fantastic silhouettes on the external screen of every religion and philosophy, that we can, by checking them as we go along, and comparing them, trace out finally the body that produced them.”

— H. P. Blavatsky