A Few Words to Read Once and Again
Helena P. Blavatsky
The first necessity for obtaining self-knowledge is to become profoundly conscious of ignorance; to feel with every fibre of the heart that one is ceaselessly self-deceived.
The second requisite is the still deeper conviction that such knowledge – such intuitive and certain knowledge – can be obtained by effort.
The third and most important is an indomitable determination to obtain and face that knowledge.
Self-knowledge of this kind is unattainable by what men usually call “self-analysis”. It is not reached by reasoning or any brain process; for it is the awakening to consciousness of the Divine nature of man.
To obtain this knowledge is a greater achievement than to command the elements or to know the future.
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The above text is reproduced from “The Aquarian Theosophist”, August 2013 edition. It is also published at the “Collected Writings” of H.P. Blavatsky, TPH, USA, vol. VIII, p. 108.
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