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
Василий Васильевич Розанов35
российский религиозный философ, литературный критик и публи…
Никита Владимирович Богословский115
советский и российский композитор, дирижёр, пианист, киноре…
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
„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
„According to the ancient doctrines, the soulless elemental spirits were evolved by the ceaseless motion inherent in the astral light. Light is force, and the latter is produced by the will. As this will proceeds from an intelligence which cannot err, for it has nothing of the material organs of human thought in it, being the superfine pure emanation of the highest divinity itself — (Plato's "Father") it proceeds from the beginning of time, according to immutable laws, to evolve the elementary fabric requisite for subsequent generations of what we term human races. All of the latter, whether belonging to this planet or to some other of the myriads in space, have their earthly bodies evolved in the matrix out of the bodies of a certain class of these elemental beings which have passed away in the invisible worlds.“
— Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
Chapter VII
„While Moses forbids 'graven images' of Him whose name is not to be taken in vain, Spinoza goes farther. He clearly infers that God must not be so much as described. Human language is totally unfit to give an idea of this "Being" who is altogether unique. Whether it is Spinoza or the Christian theology that is more right in their premises and conclusion, we leave the reader to judge for himself. Every attempt to the contrary leads a nation to anthropomorphize the deity in whom it believes, and the result is that given by Swedenborg. Instead of stating that God made man after his own image, we ought in truth to say that "man imagines God after his image," forgetting that he has set up his own reflection for worship.“
— Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
Chapter IX
„What is imagination? Psychologists tell us that it is the plastic or creative power of the soul; but materialists confound it with fancy. The radical difference between the two, was however, so thoroughly indicated by Wordsworth, in the preface to his Lyrical Ballads, that it is no longer excusable to interchange the words. Imagination, Pythagoras maintained to be the remembrance of precedent spiritual, mental, and physical states, while fancy is the disorderly production of the material brain.“
— Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
Chapter XI
