A Few Examples of Ancient Eastern Wisdom
Helena P. Blavatsky (Ed.)
Helena P. Blavatsky (Ed.)
A Mongolian Landscape in the Early 20th Century
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Editorial Note:
The following text
is reproduced from “Lucifer”
magazine, London,
August 1888 edition, p. 491. The
word “Lucifer” means “light-bearer”. It is the ancient
name for the
morning-star, Venus. Since the Middle
Ages,
the word has been
distorted by ill-advised theologians.
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*If thou lovest nature, thou lovest man. If thou hatest
man, thou hatest nature, for the two are inseparable.
*Learn from all
thou comest in contact with. Learn from the wicked as from the good; do, as the
wise bee doeth, which extracts sweet honey from the bitterest plant, truly.
*Slave, thou shalt not purchase thy freedom with the
bondage of thy friends and next-of-kin; nor shalt thou seek to obtain it, if
that freedom be at the price of making the slavery of the enemy more sorrowful.
*Learn to discern light from darkness, and to perceive
in the darkest night the bright dawn of the coming day.
*Better that
thou shouldst be twice deceived, and
cursed thrice by LIE for no lie of thine, but thy truthful word, rather than deceive thy enemy even
once, or so much as think of cursing thy greatest foe.
*He who curses, poisons his own heart, losing thereby
every spark of love in him.
*Hate is the black skunk, and love, the pure,
snow-white ermine: it is enough to let in one skunk to clear a whole plain of
ermines - aye, to the last.
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