„El error se precipita por un plano inclinado, mientras que la verdad tiene que ir penosamente cuesta arriba”.“
— Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, libro La doctrina secreta
La doctrina secreta. Vol I. Cosmogenesis
Frases de Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
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Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
Fecha de nacimiento: 31. Julio 1831
Fecha de muerte: 26. Abril 1891
Helena Blavatsky, también conocida como Madame Blavatsky, cuyo nombre de soltera era Helena von Hahn y luego de casada Helena Petrovna Blavatsky —Елена Петровна Блаватская, en ruso—, , fue una escritora, ocultista y teósofa rusa. Fue también una de las fundadoras de la Sociedad Teosófica y contribuyó a la difusión de la teosofía moderna. Sus libros más importantes son Isis sin velo y La Doctrina Secreta, escritos en 1875 y 1888, respectivamente. Fue acusada de fraudes y engaños deliberados a lo largo de su vida,[1] y también de todo lo contrario: se le atribuyeron poderes mediúmnicos y clarividentes,[cita requerida] así como la capacidad de producir manifestaciones fenoménicas consumiendo parte de su vitalidad[cita requerida] . Sus escritos incluyen afirmaciones que han sido interpretadas en clave racista y antisemita, y que fueron reinterpretados por algunos ocultistas nazis.[2] En realidad, al defender la teoría de la transmigración de las almas o reencarnación, Helena nunca atribuyó una esencia superior a ningún grupo humano concreto, y afirmó que es posible que un alma nazca en un cuerpo humano caucásico y que en la siguiente encarnación surja en el cuerpo de una persona negra.[cita requerida]
Nació en la ciudad de Yekaterinoslav , situada en las márgenes del río Dniéper, en el sur de Rusia . El apellido Blavatsky se debe a un breve matrimonio con un “hombre mayor”, llamado Nikífor Vasílievich Blavatsky, a los 17 años de edad. En rigor, la grafía correcta y coherente con la forma femenina rusa del apellido sería Blavátskaya. Petrovna es el patronímico, es decir, identifica al padre. De esta manera, Petrovna significa hija de Piotr .
Obras
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„la obscuridad adoptó la iluminación con objeto de hacerse visible“
— Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, libro La doctrina secreta
La doctrina secreta. Vol I. Cosmogenesis
„La Naturaleza es un operador perpetuo que actúa en forma circular, engendrando fluidos de sólidos, cosas fijas de cosas volátiles y volátiles de fijas; las sutiles de las groseras y las groseras de las sutiles… Así, quizás, pueden todas las cosas haberse originado del Éter“
— Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, libro La doctrina secreta
La doctrina secreta. Vol I. Cosmogenesis
„La Década mística 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 = 10 expresa esta idea.“
ISIS SIN VELO TOMO I
„Before the soul can see, the Harmony within must be attained, and fleshly eyes be rendered blind to all illusion.“
— Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, libro The Voice of the Silence
Fuente: 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, libro Isis Unveiled
Chapter XII
Isis Unveiled (1877), Volume I
„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, libro Isis Unveiled
Chapter X
Isis Unveiled (1877), Volume II
„"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, libro Isis Unveiled
Chapter IX
Isis Unveiled (1877), Volume II
„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, libro Isis Unveiled
Chapter VII
Isis Unveiled (1877), Volume I
„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, libro Isis Unveiled
Chapter XII
Isis Unveiled (1877), Volume 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, libro Isis Unveiled
Chapter IX
Isis Unveiled (1877), Volume II
