Елена Петровна Блаватская цитаты
Елена Петровна Блаватская
Дата рождения: 31. Июль 1831
Дата смерти: 26. Апрель 1891
Еле́на Петро́вна Блава́тская — российская дворянка, гражданка США, религиозный философ теософского направления, литератор, публицист, оккультист и спиритуалист, путешественница.
Блаватская объявила себя избранницей некоего «великого духовного начала», а также ученицей братства тибетских махатм, которых она именовала «хранителями сокровенных знаний», и начала проповедовать авторскую версию теософии. В 1875 году в Нью-Йорке вместе с полковником Г. С. Олкоттом и адвокатом У. К. Джаджем основала Теософское общество, которое поставило перед собой задачу изучать все без исключения философские и религиозные учения с целью выявления в них истины, которая, по мнению Блаватской и её приверженцев, поможет раскрыть сверхчувственные силы человека, постичь таинственные явления в природе. Одной из главных целей общества было заявлено «образовать ядро Всемирного Братства без различия расы, цвета кожи, пола, касты и вероисповедания». Позднее штаб-квартира общества переместилась в Индию, в город Адьяр, около Мадраса; с 1895 года общество называется Теософское общество Адьяр.
Основная деятельность Блаватской проходила в США, Англии, Франции и Индии, где она открыла филиалы Теософского общества и приобрела десятки тысяч последователей. Основные сочинения написала по-английски.
Некоторые авторы предполагали у Блаватской наличие способностей к ясновидению. В ходе своей деятельности Блаватская часто обвинялась в мистификации и откровенном жульничестве. Первая русская женщина, получившая гражданство США.
Цитаты Елена Петровна Блаватская
„Before the soul can see, the Harmony within must be attained, and fleshly eyes be rendered blind to all illusion.“
— Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, книга The Voice of the Silence
Источник: The Voice of the Silence
„What proofs other than negative have we that the animal is without a surviving, if not immortal, soul? On strictly scientific grounds we can adduce as many arguments pro as contra. To express it clearer, neither man nor animal can offer either proof or disproof of the survival of their souls after death. And from the point of view of scientific experience, it is impossible to bring that which has no objective existence under the cognizance of any exact law of science.“
— Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, книга Isis Unveiled
Источник: Isis Unveiled (1877), Volume I, Chapter XII
„The Gnostics were the earliest Christians with anything like a regular theological system, and it is only too evident that it was Jesus who was made to fit their theology as Christos, and not their theology that was developed out of his sayings and doings. Their ancestors had maintained, before the Christian era, that the Great Serpent — Jupiter, the Dragon of Life, the Father and "Good Divinity," had glided into the couch of Semele, and now, the post-Christian Gnostics, with a very trifling change, applied the same fable to the man Jesus, and asserted that the same "Good Divinity," Saturn (Ilda-Baoth), had, in the shape of the Dragon of Life, glided over the cradle of the infant Mary.“
— Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, книга Isis Unveiled
Источник: Isis Unveiled (1877), Volume II, Chapter X
„Annihilation means, with the Buddhistical philosophy, only a dispersion of matter, in whatever form or semblance of form it may be; for everything that bears a shape was created, and thus must sooner or later perish, i. e., change that shape; therefore, as something temporary, though seeming to be permanent, it is but an illusion, Maya; for, as eternity has neither beginning nor end, the more or less prolonged duration of some particular form passes, as it were, like an instantaneous flash of lightning. Before we have the time to realize that we have seen it, it is gone and passed away for ever; hence, even our astral bodies, pure ether, are but illusions of matter, so long as they retain their terrestrial outline. The latter changes, says the Buddhist, according to the merits or demerits of the person during his lifetime, and this is metempsychosis. When the spiritual entity breaks loose for ever from every particle of matter, then only it enters upon the eternal and unchangeable Nirvana. He exists in spirit, in nothing; as a form, a shape, a semblance, he is completely annihilated, and thus will die no more, for spirit alone is no Maya, but the only REALITY in an illusionary universe of ever-passing forms.“
— Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, книга Isis Unveiled
Источник: Isis Unveiled, Volume I, Chapter VII
„The discoveries of modern science do not disagree with the oldest traditions which claim an incredible antiquity for our race.“
— Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, книга Isis Unveiled
Источник: Isis Unveiled (1877), Volume I, Chapter I
„And is there no possibility that there was a period, and several periods, when man existed, and yet was not an organic being — therefore could not have left any vestige of himself for exact science? Spirit leaves no skeletons or fossils behind, and yet few are the men on earth who doubt that man can live both objectively and subjectively. At all events, the theology of the Brahmans, hoary with antiquity, and which divides the formative periods of the earth into four ages, and places between each of these a lapse of 1,728,000 years, far more agrees with official science and modern discovery than the absurd chronological notions promulgated by the Councils of Nice and Trent.“
— Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, книга Isis Unveiled
Источник: Isis Unveiled (1877), Volume II, Chapter IX
„The kabalists say that a man is not dead when his body is entombed. Death is never sudden; for, according to Hermes, nothing goes in nature by violent transitions. Everything is gradual, and as it required a long and gradual development to produce the living human being, so time is required to completely withdraw vitality from the carcass. "Death can no more be an absolute end, than birth a real beginning. Birth proves the preexistence of the being, as death proves immortality," says the same French kabalist“
— Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, книга Isis Unveiled
Eliphas Levi
Источник: Isis Unveiled (1877), Volume I, Chapter XIII
„There is a phenomenon in nature unknown, and therefore rejected by physiology and psychology in our age of unbelief. This phenomenon is a state of half-death. Virtually, the body is dead; and, in cases of persons in whom matter does not predominate over spirit and wickedness not so great as to destroy spirituality, if left alone, their astral soul will disengage itself by gradual efforts, and, when the last link is broken, it finds itself separated forever from its earthly body. Equal magnetic polarity will violently repulse the ethereal man from the decaying organic mass. The whole difficulty lies in that 1, the ultimate moment of separation between the two is believed to be that when the body is declared dead by science; and 2, a prevailing unbelief in the existence of either soul or spirit in man, by the same science.“
— Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, книга Isis Unveiled
Источник: Isis Unveiled (1877), Volume I, Chapter XII
„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.“
— Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, книга Isis Unveiled
Источник: Isis Unveiled (1877), Volume I, Chapter VII
„"Tell me who it is who brings about the re-birth (the revolutio)?" is asked of the wise Hermes. "God's Son, the only man, through the will of God," is the answer of the "heathen." "God's son" is the immortal spirit assigned to every human being. It is this divine entity which is the "only man," for the casket which contains our soul, and the soul itself, are but half-entities, and without its overshadowing both body and astral soul, the two are but an animal duad. It requires a trinity to form the complete "man," and allow him to remain immortal at every "re-birth," or revolutio, throughout the subsequent and ascending spheres, every one of which brings him nearer to the refulgent realm of eternal and absolute light.“
— Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, книга Isis Unveiled
Источник: Isis Unveiled (1877), Volume II, Chapter IV
„Science tells us that heat may be shown to develop electricity, electricity produce heat; and magnetism to evolve electricity, and vice versa. Motion, they tell us, results from motion itself, and so on, ad infinitum. This is the A B C of occultism and of the earliest alchemists. The indestructibility of matter and force being discovered and proved, the great problem of eternity is solved.“
— Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, книга Isis Unveiled
Источник: Isis Unveiled (1877), Volume I, Chapter VII
„But, if the knowledge of the occult powers of nature opens the spiritual sight of man, enlarges his intellectual faculties, and leads him unerringly to a profounder veneration for the Creator, on the other hand ignorance, dogmatic narrow-mindedness, and a childish fear of looking to the bottom of things, invariably leads to fetish-worship and superstition.“
— Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, книга Isis Unveiled
Источник: Isis Unveiled (1877), Volume II, Chapter I
