Елена Петровна Блаватская цитаты
Елена Петровна Блаватская
Дата рождения: 31. Июль 1831
Дата смерти: 26. Апрель 1891
Еле́на Петро́вна Блава́тская — русская 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.
Подобные авторы
Клод Адриан Гельвеций71
французский литератор и философ-материалист
Николай Онуфриевич Лосский25
русский философ-интуитивист, историк русской философии
Никита Владимирович Богословский115
советский и российский композитор, дирижёр, пианист, киноре…
Василий Васильевич Розанов35
российский религиозный философ, литературный критик и публи…
Владимир Сергеевич Соловьёв10
русский философ, поэт, публицист, литературный критик
Сёрен Обю Кьеркегор37
Датский философ, протестантский теолог и писатель.
Андрей Евгеньевич Гусев18
российский писатель и журналист
Александр Иванович Герцен53
российский писатель, публицист, философ, революционерЦитаты Елена Петровна Блаватская
„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
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
Chapter X
„There is no religion higher than truth.“
— Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
Motto of the Theosophical Society. See for instance: Blavatsky Collected Writings, Volume 6, p. 168 http://www.katinkahesselink.net/blavatsky/articles/v6/y1884_016.htm
„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
Chapter I
„The infinite and uncreated spirit that we usually call GOD, a substance of the highest virtue and excellency, produced everything else by emanative causality. God thus is the primary substance, the rest, the secondary; if the former created matter with a power of moving itself, he, the primary substance, is still the cause of that motion as well as of the matter, and yet we rightly say that it is matter which moves itself. "We may define this kind of spirit we speak of to be a substance indiscernible, that can move itself, that can penetrate, contract, and dilate itself, and can also penetrate, move, and alter matter," which is the third emanation.“
— Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
Chapter VII
„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
Chapter IX
„Comparative theology is a two-edged weapon, and has so proved itself. But the Christian advocates, unabashed by evidence, force comparison in the serenest way; Christian legends and dogmas, they say, do somewhat resemble the heathen, it is true; but see, while the one teaches us the existence, powers, and attributes of an all-wise, all-good Father-God, Brahmanism gives us a multitude of minor gods, and Buddhism none whatever; one is fetishism and polytheism, the other bald atheism. Jehovah is the one true God, and the Pope and Martin Luther are His prophets! This is one edge of the sword, and this the other: Despite missions, despite armies, despite enforced commercial intercourse, the "heathen" find nothing in the teachings of Jesus — sublime though some are — that Christna and Gautama had not taught them before. And so, to gain over any new converts, and keep the few already won by centuries of cunning, the Christians give the "heathen" dogmas more absurd than their own, and cheat them by adopting the habit of their native priests, and practicing the very "idolatry and fetishism" which they so disparage in the "heathens." Comparative theology works both ways.“
— Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
Chapter XI
