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| + | The possible truths, hazily perceived in the world of abstraction, like those inferred from observation and experiment in the world of matter, are forced upon the profane multitudes, too busy to think for themselves, under the form of Divine revelation and scientific authority. But the same question stands open from the days of [[Socrates]] and [[w:Pontius Pilate|Pilate]] down to our own age of wholesale negation: is there such a thing as absolute truth in the hands of any one party or man? Reason answers, "there cannot be." There is no room for absolute truth upon any subject whatsoever, in a world as finite and conditioned as man is himself. But there are relative truths, and we have to make the best we can of them. | ||
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| + | "There is often greater martyrdom to live for the love of, whether man or an ideal, than to die" is a motto of the [[w:Mahātmā|Mahatmas]]. | ||
| + | [http://www.katinkahesselink.net/blavatsky/articles/v4/y1883_092.htm ''Collected Writings,'' vol. IV, p. 603 (October 1889)] | ||
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| + | There is no religion higher than truth. | ||
| + | Motto of the Theosophical Society. See for instance: [http://www.katinkahesselink.net/blavatsky/articles/v6/y1884_016.htm Blavatsky Collected Writings, Volume 6, p. 168] | ||
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| + | Nothing of that which is conducive to help man, collectively or individually, to live — not "happily" — but less unhappily in this world, ought to be indifferent to the Theosophist-Occultist. It is no concern of his whether his help benefits a man in his worldly or spiritual progress; his first duty is to be ever ready to help if he can, without stopping to philosophize. | ||
| + | [http://www.katinkahesselink.net/blavatsky/articles/v11/y1889_065.htm ''Collected Writings,'' vol. XI, p. 465 (October 1889)] | ||
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| + | I speak "with absolute certainty" only so far as my own personal belief is concerned. Those who have not the same warrant for their belief as I have, would be very credulous and foolish to accept it on blind faith. Nor does the writer believe any more than her correspondent and his friends in any "authority" let alone "divine revelation"! | ||
| + | [http://www.katinkahesselink.net/blavatsky/articles/v11/y1889_065.htm ''Collected Writings,'' vol. XI, p. 466 (October, 1889)] | ||
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Helena Blavatsky
Divers
The possible truths, hazily perceived in the world of abstraction, like those inferred from observation and experiment in the world of matter, are forced upon the profane multitudes, too busy to think for themselves, under the form of Divine revelation and scientific authority. But the same question stands open from the days of Socrates and Pilate down to our own age of wholesale negation: is there such a thing as absolute truth in the hands of any one party or man? Reason answers, "there cannot be." There is no room for absolute truth upon any subject whatsoever, in a world as finite and conditioned as man is himself. But there are relative truths, and we have to make the best we can of them. Lucifer (February 1888)
"There is often greater martyrdom to live for the love of, whether man or an ideal, than to die" is a motto of the Mahatmas.
Collected Writings, vol. IV, p. 603 (October 1889)
There is no religion higher than truth.
Motto of the Theosophical Society. See for instance: Blavatsky Collected Writings, Volume 6, p. 168
Nothing of that which is conducive to help man, collectively or individually, to live — not "happily" — but less unhappily in this world, ought to be indifferent to the Theosophist-Occultist. It is no concern of his whether his help benefits a man in his worldly or spiritual progress; his first duty is to be ever ready to help if he can, without stopping to philosophize.
Collected Writings, vol. XI, p. 465 (October 1889)
I speak "with absolute certainty" only so far as my own personal belief is concerned. Those who have not the same warrant for their belief as I have, would be very credulous and foolish to accept it on blind faith. Nor does the writer believe any more than her correspondent and his friends in any "authority" let alone "divine revelation"! Collected Writings, vol. XI, p. 466 (October, 1889)
La Doctrine Secrète
Quel diable aurait pu être plus rusé, plus habile et plus cruel que l'assassin de Whitechapel, "Jack l'Eventreur", de 1888, que sa soif de sang et sa froide méchanceté poussèrent à massacrer et à mutiler froidement sept femmes infortunées et d'ailleurs innocentes ? Il suffit de lire les journaux pour reconnaître, dans les brutes ivres (époux et pères) qui battent les femmes et les enfants et dont un petit nombre est journellement traduit devant les tribunaux, la personnification complète des démons de l'Enfer Chrétien !
(source : "La Doctrine Secrète" d'Héléna Blavatsky, IV, p.76, note de bas de page)
Alice Bailey
Autobiographie inachevée
Partout, ce travail du Tibétain a grandement intrigué les gens et les psychologues. Ils contestent ce qui est la cause du phénomène et ils déduisent que ce que j'écris provient probablement de mon subconscient. Selon Jung, m'a-t-on dit, le Tibétain est mon soi supérieur personnifié et A. A. Bailey en est le soi inférieur. Un de ces jours (si j'ai jamais le plaisir de le rencontrer) je lui demanderai comment mon soi supérieur personnalisé peut m'envoyer des colis de divers endroits de l'Inde, car c'est ce qu'il a fait.
(source : "Autobiographie inachevée" d'Alice Bailey, p.164)
