The Secret Doctrine Quotes

“The root of life was in every drop of the ocean of immortality, and the ocean was radiant light, which was fire and heart, and motion.”
― H.P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 1 of 4

“Esoteric philosophy teaches that everything lives and is conscious, but not that all life and consciousness are similar to those of human or even animal beings.”
― H.P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 1 of 4

“Scientists know it (matter) hardly skin deep, and yet they will dogmatise.”
― H.P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 1 of 4

“The Dzyu becomes Fohat, the swift son of the Divine sons whose sons are the Lipka, runs circular errands. Fohat is the steed and the thought is the rider.”
― H.P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 1 of 4

“The matter of the Eastern philosophers is not the "matter" of the Western metaphysicians.”
― H.P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 1 of 4

“at slander she smiles in silent contempt”
― H.P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 1 of 4

“The mother swells, expanding from within without, like the bud of the lotus.”
― H.P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 1 of 4

“Darkness radiates the light, and light drops one solitary ray into the mother-deep.”
― H.P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 1 of 4

“...Listen ye Sons of the Earth, to your instructions--the sons of the Fire. Learn there is neither first nor last, for all is one.”
― H.P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 1 of 4

“Life precedes form, and life survives the last atom of form.”
― H.P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 1 of 4

“The "Divine Thought" does not imply the idea of a Divine thinker. The Universe, not only past, present, and future--which is a human and finite idea expressed by finite though--but in its totality, the Sat (an untranslatable term), the absolute being, with the Past and Future crystallized in an eternal Present, is that Thought itself reflected in a secondary or manifest cause.”
― H.P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 1 of 4

“The Planetary Spirits are the informing spirits of the Stars in general, and of the Planets especially. They rule the destinies of men who are all born under one or other of their constellations”
― H.P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 1 of 4

“It is most remarkable that, while confessing their entire ignorance of the true Nature of even terrestrial matter--primordial substance being regarded more as a dream than as a sober reality--the physicists should set themselves up as judges, nevertheless, of that matter, and claim to know what it is able and is not able to do, in various combinations.”
― H.P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 1 of 4

“Where have the many attempts made by Science to bind, to connect, and define all the phenomena of organic life by mere physical and chemical manifestations, brought it to? To speculation generally”
― H.P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 1 of 4

“There was a time when the whole world was "of one lip and of one knowledge," and Man knew more of his origin than he does now, and thus knew that the Sun and Moon, however large a part they do play in the constitution, growth, and development of the human body, were not the direct causative agents of his appearance on Earth; these agents being, in truth, the living intelligent Powers which the Occultists call Dhyan Chohans.”
― H.P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 1 of 4