Aquarian Axioms
- Life is built up by the sacrifice of the individual to the whole. Each cell in the living body must sacrifice itself to the perfection of the whole; when it is otherwise, disease and death enforce the lesson.
- Harmony is the law of life, discord its shadow; whence springs suffering, the teacher, the awakener of consciousness.
- To obtain the knowledge of Self is a greater achievement than to command the elements or to know the future.
- Self-knowledge is unattainable by what men usually call ‘self-analysis’. It is not reached by reasoning or any brain-powers.
- Real Self-knowledge is the awakening to consciousness of the divine nature of man.
- Will creates intelligently; Desire blindly and unconsciously.
- When desire is for the purely abstract – when it has lost all trace or tinge of ‘self’ – then it has become pure.
- Spirituality is not what we understand by the words ‘virtue’ and ‘goodness’. It is the power of perceiving formless, spiritual essences.
- The discovery and right use of the true essence of Being; this is the whole secret of life.
- You cannot build a Temple of Truth by hammering dead stones. Its foundations must precipitate themselves like crystals from the solution of Life.
(Ancient axioms from a compilation made by H.P. Blavatsky in 1890)