„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 .
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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
Fuente: Isis Unveiled (1877), Volume I, 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, libro Isis Unveiled
Fuente: Isis Unveiled (1877), Volume II, Chapter X
„Annihilation means, with the Buddhistical philosophy, only a dispersion of matter, in whatever form or semblance of form it may be; for everything that bears a shape was created, and thus must sooner or later perish, i. e., change that shape; therefore, as something temporary, though seeming to be permanent, it is but an illusion, Maya; for, as eternity has neither beginning nor end, the more or less prolonged duration of some particular form passes, as it were, like an instantaneous flash of lightning. Before we have the time to realize that we have seen it, it is gone and passed away for ever; hence, even our astral bodies, pure ether, are but illusions of matter, so long as they retain their terrestrial outline. The latter changes, says the Buddhist, according to the merits or demerits of the person during his lifetime, and this is metempsychosis. When the spiritual entity breaks loose for ever from every particle of matter, then only it enters upon the eternal and unchangeable Nirvana. He exists in spirit, in nothing; as a form, a shape, a semblance, he is completely annihilated, and thus will die no more, for spirit alone is no Maya, but the only REALITY in an illusionary universe of ever-passing forms.“
— Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, libro Isis Unveiled
Fuente: Isis Unveiled, Volume I, Chapter VII
„The discoveries of modern science do not disagree with the oldest traditions which claim an incredible antiquity for our race.“
— Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, libro Isis Unveiled
Fuente: Isis Unveiled (1877), Volume I, Chapter 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
Fuente: Isis Unveiled (1877), Volume II, Chapter IX
„The kabalists say that a man is not dead when his body is entombed. Death is never sudden; for, according to Hermes, nothing goes in nature by violent transitions. Everything is gradual, and as it required a long and gradual development to produce the living human being, so time is required to completely withdraw vitality from the carcass. "Death can no more be an absolute end, than birth a real beginning. Birth proves the preexistence of the being, as death proves immortality," says the same French kabalist“
— Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, libro Isis Unveiled
Eliphas Levi
Fuente: Isis Unveiled (1877), Volume I, Chapter XIII
