Елена Петровна Блаватская цитаты
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Елена Петровна Блаватская
Дата рождения: 31. Июль 1831
Дата смерти: 26. Апрель 1891
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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, кино...
Василий Васильевич Розанов35
российский религиозный философ, литературный критик и пуб...
Владимир Сергеевич Соловьёв11
русский философ, поэт, публицист, литературный критик
Андрей Евгеньевич Гусев18
российский писатель и журналист
Сёрен Обю Кьеркегор37
Датский философ, протестантский теолог и писатель.
Александр Иванович Герцен53
российский писатель, публицист, философ, революционер
Симона Вейль17
французский философ и религиозный мыслительЦитаты Елена Петровна Блаватская
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„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
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„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
„"Noah is a revolutio of Adam, as Moses is a revolutio of Abel and Seth," says the Kabala; that is to say, a repetition or another version of the same story. The greatest proof of it is the distribution of the characters in the Bible. For instance, beginning with Cain, the first murderer, every fifth man in his line of descent is a murderer. Thus there come Enoch, Irad, Mehujael, Methuselah, and the fifth is Lamech, the second murderer, and he is Noah's father. By drawing the five-pointed star of Lucifer (which has its crown-point downward) and writing the name of Cain beneath the lowest point, and those of his descendants successively at each of the other points, it will be found that each fifth name — which would be written beneath that of Cain — is that of a murderer. In the Talmud this genealogy is given complete, and thirteen murderers range themselves in line below the name of Cain. This is no coincidence. Siva is the Destroyer, but he is also the Regenerator. Cain is a murderer, but he is also the creator of nations, and an inventor. This star of Lucifer is the same one that John sees falling down to earth in his Apocalypse.“
— Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
Chapter IX
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„The inference to be drawn from all this is, that the made-up and dogmatic Christianity of the Constantinian period is simply an offspring of the numerous conflicting sects, half-castes themselves, born of Pagan parents. Each of these could claim representatives converted to the so-called orthodox body of Christians. And, as every newly-born dogma had to be carried out by the majority of votes, every sect colored the main substance with its own hue, till the moment when the emperor enforced this revealed olla-podrida, of which he evidently did not himself understand a word, upon an unwilling world as the religion of Christ. Wearied in the vain attempt to sound this fathomless bog of international speculations, unable to appreciate a religion based on the pure spirituality of an ideal conception, Christendom gave itself up to the adoration of brutal force as represented by a Church backed up by Constantine. Since then, among the thousand rites, dogmas, and ceremonies copied from Paganism, the Church can claim but one invention as thoroughly original with her — namely, the doctrine of eternal damnation, and one custom, that of the anathema.“
— Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
Chapter VII
„The astral perisprit is contained and confined within the physical body as ether in a bottle, or magnetism in magnetized iron. It is a centre and engine of force, fed from the universal supply of force, and moved by the same general laws which pervade all nature and produce all cosmical phenomena. Its inherent activity causes the incessant physical operations of the animal organism and ultimately results in the destruction of the latter by overuse and its own escape. It is the prisoner, not the voluntary tenant, of the body.“
— Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
Chapter VI
„"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
Chapter IV
„Evidently Proclus does not advocate here simply a superstition, but science; for notwithstanding that it is occult, and unknown to our scholars, who deny its possibilities, magic is still a science. It is firmly and solely based on the mysterious affinities existing between organic and inorganic bodies, the visible productions of the four kingdoms, and the invisible powers of the universe. That which science calls gravitation, the ancients and the mediaeval hermetists called magnetism, attraction, affinity. It is the universal law, which is understood by Plato and explained in Timaeus as the attraction of lesser bodies to larger ones, and of similar bodies to similar, the latter exhibiting a magnetic power rather than following the law of gravitation. The anti-Aristotelean formula that gravity causes all bodies to descend with equal rapidity, without reference to their weight, the difference being caused by some other unknown agency, would seem to point a great deal more forcibly to magnetism than to gravitation, the former attracting rather in virtue of the substance than of the weight. A thorough familiarity with the occult faculties of everything existing in nature, visible as well as invisible; their mutual relations, attractions, and repulsions; the cause of these, traced to the spiritual principle which pervades and animates all things; the ability to furnish the best conditions for this principle to manifest itself, in other words a profound and exhaustive knowledge of natural law — this was and is the basis of magic.“
— Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
Chapter VII
