From Architecture down to the Zodiac, every science worthy of the name was imported by the Greeks

If thou would'st have that stream of hard-earn'd knowledge, of Wisdom heaven-born, remain sweet running waters, thou should'st not leave it to become a stagnant pond.

Matter is spirit at its lowest level. Spirit is matter at its highest level.

The whole order of nature evinces a progressive march towards a higher life.

Donkeys have the courage to bray after the death of a lion. (not meant to glorify carnivorous practice).

Man is spiritual being -- a soul, in other words -- and that this soul takes on different bodies from life to life on earth to order at last to arrive at such perfect knowledge, through repeated experience, as to enable one to assume a body fit to be the dwelling-place of a Mahatma or perfected soul. Then, they say, that particular soul becomes a spiritual helper to mankind.

The Secret Doctrine is the common property of the countless millions of men born under various climates, in times with which History refuses to deal, and to which esoteric teachings assign dates incompatible with the theories of Geology and Anthropology.